Of...as in should of

[Iwantcandy]

I am sure the true pedants amongst you will tell me I should have posted this in "am I being unreasonable?" but I need to know -am I being unreasonable in getting very angry and wound up when people make basic grammatical and/or spelling errors? If I spot one I can feel annoyed for hours, especially if I bite my tongue and don't correct the person who got it wrong. (My husband gets annoyed with me when I helpfully point them out).

The ones which really make my blood boil are:-

1. "Should of"

1. Getting their, there or they're wrong

1. Misuse of apostrophes

1. Practice or practise and advise or advice

1. Using confusing sentences where the meaning is unclear like "the woman played the piano with wooden legs"

1. Teachers who can't spell.

Am I the only one who gets really annoyed by these mistakes and if not, do the rest of you "helpfully" correct others?

Annieonamapleleaf
SIL says this, types this and I pointedly use them both in the right context to no avail.

Can I add Excape instead of escape and eckcetera instead of etc?
Oh and Pacifically in place of specifically...

[Grin] at "currant drives me nuts"

And expresso instead of espresso

What about affect and effect :)

Oh, and people that can't spell definitely, drives me potty

Also, epitomy instead of epitome.

In one of the Miss Read books, the character of Miss Read is made mad with anger by a notice in the village hall which says,

"Have you switched the light of?"

Wander and wonder

Red instead of read!!!

I read recently that "practice" is the noun in English-English but a verb in American-English (whereas our verb is "practise" obv.). Is that true?

Quite and quiet
Peace and piece

Any more for any more?

People who refer to "St Pancreas" station. People who say Julio/Enrique INglesias, there's no bloody N in it!

I saw a building site with a sign saying 'wet sment' once (it took me a while to get that one!).
Oh and 'wet pent'on a gate.

I'm constantly teaching this in my class - Primary 6. It's related to the way some children speak. It's tough to get rid of...but I keep trying!

One that gets my back up is "an" instead of "and" - eg fish an chips, bread an butter

Doctors practise medicine in a Doctors' Practice.

I'm not getting epitomy & epitome? (sleepy after homemade lasagne tea).

The one that drives me potty is "off of" instead of from.

As in "that bloke off of Neighbours"

I had an ex-boyfriend who would say that, hence he is an ex. He also said "I gave it you" rather than "I gave it TO you". It made me very stabby.

Onetwoorthree -you mean in writing or when spoken? if we're talking verbal mistakes don't get me started on dropped ts.
Bu'er
Twen'y
Etc
Its like scraping nails down a blackboard to me (regional dialects excepted)

DS is six & pulled his teacher up on using glottal stops .

Oh oh.. I say I gave it you...I also say are you coming with? Instead of are you coming with me... I have a northern father who I think may have given me some bad habits (although he has a London accent nowadays)

I agree
It's obvious that

the woman played the piano with wooden legs

should be
the woman with wooden legs played the piano

The loosers make my teeth itch, they include 'hema', a dutch shop currently selling a t-shirt proclaiming "some you win, some you loose".

But the one which strips the enamel from my teeth is 'what' in place of 'which'.

As you were.

Less and fewer.

Violent/violence towards/against. I'm looking at YOU, London Transport.

My eyes itch every time I drive past Cookies' Corner.

And I kick myself every time I say "it's up down Station Road" (regional thing I've only just noticed)

Should of and would of don't notice much when said in a Southern accent, they sound very similar to the correct should've and would've. It concerns me that my autocorrect thinks should've should be shoulder, though...

DH uses the word agreeance instead of agreement. It really, really annoys me. Then I heard someone else use the word the other day and I started to wonder...

His mother used it too, so is it a regional word?

Can't remember who asked this but 'practice' is both noun and verb in America, so Americans practice the piano where we would practise it.

This is a great site - clearly Bristol University were getting very irritated with illiterate undergraduates!