Mistakes that give you the RAGE

[poemontheocean]

'Should of' - it's should HAVE.
'Alot' is not even a WORD!

Add yours!

I brought something in the shop.

You fucking bought it.

Something else that irritates me is "Myself and X went to Y"

Que = Manuel

Been instead of being
Brought/bought - just how can these be confused?!
Curb instead of kerb and draft instead of draught.

"Can you give me a lend of X?"

brought/bought

stationary/stationery

Using the word won instead of beat as in 'I won you in that race'

I'm not a fecking prize!

Uninterested / disinterested - this is frequently wrong in books, so don't have the autocorrect / fat fingers excuse!

Actually, the "not interested" meaning of disinterested is older than the "impartial" meaning of the word going back as far as 1600 or so. It shifted sometime later and grammarians began to insist on a distinction between the two. The meaning is now shifting back, which is fine with me. "Dis" and "un" mean essentially the same thing. It's different meanings of "interest" that keep the distinction alive.

I know there's a lot of argument about this one, but 'text', as in 'I text her to say I would be late', gives me the rage.

Otherwise, I agree with everything on this thread and I think I love you all.

Rest bite instead of respite. For fuck's sake.

Rest bite is only acceptable if you are having a pause in eating.

Oh - and one from DP, who I have to hold back in many a queuing situation when we are behind people ordering beverages:

'Can I get a...?'

DP (under her breath) 'No. You may have a...'

And another (I am warming to this theme).

This is a new one for me. Children in schools these days don't play a game against another person or team, they use the word 'versus' as a verb.

E.g. 'I versed him at Fifa'

Or: 'Can I vers you at this game?'

The children in my class think it's funny and one of them will always help me out by saying 'that is not a word!' so that I don't have to waste my breath. (I am really that predictable)

My absolute number one gripe is comma splicing. It's so common nowadays. Loads of recent popular fiction has been edited by morons who don't understand how to separate two clauses.

I wouldn't expect people to bother with it in everyday life, but surely if you are a published author you should understand sentence construction. If you don't know what I mean, read 'The Teacher'. Apart from being an utter load of bollocks it is FULL of comma splicing!!

lifeissweet - my OH orders that way in restaurants! I have now retrained home to say 'please may I have...'

Brought instead of bought.
'I brought it in toys r us'
No you didn't. You BOUGHT IT!

he's instead of his.
' I brought it in toys r us for he's birthday'
No you BOUGHT it for HIS birthday'

There are others but those 2 really really give me the rage

Should of instead of should have makes me shudder. See it all the time on mn, I have to rein myself in and ignore it.

Oh god, 'ect' makes me want to cry. Especially when repeated. 'Ect ect' asaarrrgggh!!!

Apostrophes - the use of apostrophes in titles.

Eg. AIBU in thinking my child is not "naughty"?

Why use apostrophes?

Draw instead of drawer annoys me.

Confusion surrounding the use of borrow, borrowed, loan and loaned is also a personal bug bear. As in 'she borrowed it to me' or 'she asked me for a borrow'.

My son says 'versed' as in Crystal Palace versed Man Utd in the cup final. I thought it was just him! My husband corrects him every time but I think it's quite sweet. Generally I don't mind mistakes in spoken English but saying text instead of texted makes you sound like an idiot, and myself or I instead of me makes me ragey.

Everything annoys me.

Particularly, 'of' when it should be 'have'. Why has this become a thing? It's just idiotic.

The ear grater for me is 'me and DS are going shopping' but even worse than that is 'between you and I', that drives me bananas.

I cannot afford to be pedantic on Mumsnet as I constantly make mistakes when I write. I take it out on my children instead.

'I have a sore throat, I'll have a lozenger' It's lozenge - arghh!! Really sets my teeth on edge.

I've got to itch a scratch. Wrong.

228agreenend those are quotation marks that you used and actually I can see why. They are questioning the term used. In this case "naughty". So they may disagree that their child is 'naughty', but instead feel that they are 'spirited' or 'lively'.

Mine, which I have not managed to eradicate from my DH's vocabulary in the 14 years we've been married is:

"Why are you doing that for?"

I constantly say:

"It's 'what are you doing that for?' Or 'why are you doing that?' not 'why are you doing that for'!!!!!!!!!"

But it hasn't changed anything