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?

Me and her went to the shops!!!! Surely no one would stoop so low

'Recommend me a .......' is one that I often see in thread titles that irks me for some reason. 'Per say' is another one that I notice but 'should of, would of, could of' is by far the worst imo.

The myself/yourself thing instead of me/you makes me get really twitchy. I used to work with someone who would ask people on the phone "Is it yourself I need to talk to?" How I didn't attack her with a random item of stationery, I don't know!

I've just received some estate agent details describing the house as in a "sort after location." I am very tempted to respond and point out the mistake, but that would make me ridiculous though, non?

All these people talking about "independant" schools really irritate me.

Def. sliver and slither - even newspapers sometimes get this wrong, 'a slither of cheese' or summat

Throws and Throes.....he's in his death throws. (nice burgundy ones...)

Decimate - it means to reduce by one-tenth, not reduce to one-tenth, so if your army is decimated, it's actually not as bad as it could be.

Hasn't the meaning of decimate changed rather like to beg the question?

could not believe that "should of" was used on local secondary school website by English teaching staff and remained uncorrected for more than a week until somebody finally cracked and complained about it. Grim that nobody within the school noticed...

Oh god, I thought I'd renounced pedantry, but this thread's bringing it all back!

SweetestThing - 'her went to the shops' is dialect in the Black Country, and presumably some other places. I'm very much with claraschu: improper use of the subjective gets on my nerves far more. So Hyacinth Bucket!

Thanks, Iwantcandy. So begging the question means leaping to a conclusion? I've been using it wrongly ... good thing I gave up pedantry, eh

garlicbutter, I am in the South East, so there's no regional excuse :)

I've just read a book which was peppered with "He was stood there", "He was sat there". It kept pulling my attention away from the story. Don't proof-readers and editors know what is correct any more? Don't writers??!! This author included the fact that she was an Oxford graduate on her biog inside the book - standards must be slipping at Oxbridge, then!

Bare with me

Baited breath. It's BATED!!!
I hate Simon Cowell pontificating about music, a subject he knows very little about anyway, but especially when he says "somethink" in his patronising voice!

Just heard Sarah Montague on Radio 4 say "bored of". Got to be "with".

Isn't "bored of" sometimes correct?

No, never. You can be 'bored with' or 'bored by' something, but never 'bored of' something.

YY, Sweetest

I kind of (

He was sat on a chair.

Works for me.

anyone seen that facebook 'poster' which says 'Send you're prayers to Muamba'?

There's another one on FB which proclaims: Nobody's perfect, but if you're from Yorkshire your pretty close.
And they were doing so well until just after Yorkshire!