Mistakes that give you the RAGE

[poemontheocean]

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

Add yours!

And now I'm thinking I shouldn 't have put that comma after the 'Plus'.

I'm not a very good pedant.....

Sanity - well spotted. Sorry!

Oh yes, "I was sat" really gets my goat. It's bad enough when people say it, but I keep coming across it in newspapers

I've seen "phased" so often that I was beginning to doubt myself! It's particularly rife on Mumsnet.

I confess that if the first few sentences of a post are full of mistakes, I don't read the rest.

I was in a year 6 classroom the other day and the teacher had written a notice on the board. She missed an apostrophe. I could feel myself starting to have a bit of a funny turn. Should I say something, should I not? I did. I blurted it out really loudly and drew it in myself . It felt a bit like squeezing spot.

"Will that be suffice?"

I have to listen to my colleague (unknowingly) embarrass himself with this gem every day on the phone. It never fails to make me cringe.

Can't seem to bring myself to tell him.

Correct him*

lifeissweet

I shout 'ly' re. adverbs at the TV too.

Literally (obvs)

Absolutely (when you mean that you agree)

Basically - at the beginning of a sentence when it usually has no discernible purpose

I just saw draw for drawers again!

Do these people see the word drawers and think it is misspelled?

Alohamora, I think the issue is that people don't read books or quality newspapers these days. Just stuff on Facebook written by numpties, where no one ever pulls anyone up on their poor SPAG. Look at the outrage on here when someone corrects another poster.

A slither of cake, anyone?

"I will never step foot in their house again!"

No, hopefully you will set foot.

Has anyone mentioned the thread where the OP keeps talking about the school fate?

Could of/should of
I seen
Aswell
Alot
On route
Double negatives ('but I didn't do nuffink nothing')
Them instead of those (where I live is awful for it, the word 'those' never gets used)
'I borrowed him my __')
Gotten (I blame Americans)

I saw an advert yesterday for a film which is "opening on May 29".

TH

"Grin and bare it" is another one. I always want to ask them what precisely they are planning to bare.

Ah, but there is also the use of faze instead of phase.
"She's in her Goth faze".

I watched "Love, Nina" and she used the dreaded nucular, on the BBC FFS.

One I see all the time is 'illusive' instead of 'elusive'. And of course 'weary' instead of 'wary'.

I was sat/stood
Off of
Lend/borrow
How are you? I'm good
There is lots of people here today
On the weekend

Some of these are so commonly used that I wonder if I am right or wrong.

I know how you feel. I used to be perfectly fine with lose and loose. But I've seen them misused do often I now get confused.

Yes! Agree with all of these. Let me add the people who write 'the people that' as in 'the people that do this are really annoying'.

'Britain's Got Talent'?

I always mutter 'Britain is talented'

People punctuating posts with question marks when they appear to be making a statement eg "When I found him his shoes were wet?" or "The doctor has no appointments until next week???"

Well, why are you asking me? Were his shoes wet or not? Does the doctor have any earlier appointments? Are you trying to express surprise? Or is it the punctuation equivalent of 'upspeak'?

Discrete when you mean discreet. It seems to come up every single time on breastfeeding threads.

Oh yes, "nucular" on Love Nina really made me twitch. I'm not sure I can bear to watch any more of it in case she does it again.