Mistakes that give you the RAGE

[poemontheocean]

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

Add yours!

lougle - you're going to have to LTB

FinnegansCake if I told you half of the other ways he murders the English language, you'd be up with nightmares and I'd be given a medal for sticking it out. However, he is the most wonderfully mild mannered chap, who puts up with all my oddities and cherishes me, so I'll let it go despite the pain it causes.

Nicky Morgan would be proud of you all.

I too get irrational rage at many grammar and punctuation mistakes. If I happen to have a pen on me in public places I will draw in or scribble out misused or missing apostrophes.

Would of is just hateful. Even worse when people say something like "AIBU to of not gone shopping".

Also been for being, and text as a past tense. It's texted, FFS.

Draws instead of drawers.
Should of instead of should have.

I love this thread.

Reign instead of rein.

On a "pedal stool" instead of pedestal.

Brought instead of bought. Why the extra R??
Should/would/could of
Defiantly - definitely
and plurals with added 's, also nouns ending in y with incorrect plural (familys or lorrys argh!)

More of a pronunciation gripe but I need to share.

My mother used to call Solpadeine Solphadeine. Gave me the rage every time. She is dead. Now my DH does it. Gives me the rage every time.

I was shopping in Tesco last week using the self scanner and when I scanned the packet, it came up as Solphadeine. I had a momentary wobble when I thought perhaps I had been wrong all along (as if).

Why? Why? Why?

Gawjuss and draws instead of drawers. There is a woman I know who constantly misspells gorgeous as gawjuss. I realise it would be impolite to mention it but it is making me twitch.

Apostrophes - the use of apostrophes in titles.

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

Why use apostrophes?

Those are speech marks, not apostrophes.

Ironic, eh?

The worst, worst, absolutely worst thing is when someone has gone to the trouble of laminating a sign with errors in it I work in the NHS.

The other painful experience is driving along behind a professionally sign written van with erroneous apostrophes. That hurts.

The use of 'are' when it should be 'our'. Arrrrggghhhh!!!!

Cubical instead of cubicle
Principal instead of principle.

Exitpursuedbybears - how do you feel about the pronunciation of ibuprofen? I can't bear it when the second syllable is stressed

Any speech or writing that's pomposity fuelled. Particularly when there's nothing to be pompous about.
I was proceeding.. no, you were walking.
All the I/me confusion too.
Posters who write 'free reign'.

On point instead of en pointe.
Seems to have become very popular. I don't know why it irritates me so much.

Missing articles.
" Miss, can. I go toilet?"
" not until you've asked properly."
" Can I go toilet please?"
" You MAY go to THE toilet as soon as you say it properly".
And I prefer lavatory.

'Upmost' instead of 'utmost'.
'Tenderhooks' instead of 'tenterhooks'.
'Tidbit' instead of 'titbit'.

The increasing tendency to turn nouns into verbs. My HoD used the word "diarise" at a meeting once and I thought I was going to have to kill him. I hate "impact" as a verb too, even though I know that it is generally accepted.

I'm with you OP, "of" instead of "have" gives me the rage every time. See a lot of it on MN unfortunately.

"(s)pacific" instead of "specific". The Pacific is an ocean FFS.

The abandonment of the apostrophe on street and business signs.

Oh and my niece writes emails in text speak meaning they are (to me) unintelligible till the third reading and then still meaningless. She's a 25 yr old graduate not a 10yr old in the playground.

"was" instead of "were"

Oh God, this thread is making my teeth itch!

Draws instead of drawers AAAGGH!

Are instead of our

I was sat

Alot

Oh God, ALL of these!

Plus, phased instead of fazed. Been seeing that on here a lot lately.

Aaarggh!!