Grammar police, pet peeve.

[Astro14]

I notice the opposite. They add an ly when unnecessary. “Most importantly.” That and replacing effect with impact (“How will this Water Pick impact my molars?”) grinds my gears.

Effect? or

Affect?

 

[KrisZ]

Grammar and vocabulary in this country are on the decline. It doesn't help when most writers for TV shows and movies can't get it right. It doesn't help that you can be labeled a snob because you use multi-syllable words and speak or write in grammatically correct sentences. There is a growing anti-education/anti-intellectualism movement in this country that is also playing into the decline of language.

Sounds like the second coming of the proletariat, doesn’t it?

 

[4wd]

I notice the opposite. They add an ly when unnecessary. “Most importantly.” That and replacing effect with impact (“How will this Water Pick impact my molars?”) grinds my gears.

With jet impingement

 

[chainblu]

I know if I had substituted saw/seen, my 3rd grade teacher's (Mrs. Welch, RIP) hair would have stood straight up. That would have been the one and only time I did that.

 

[opus1]

How about when someone misspells the model of their car?

“This 2016 Toyota Camary is our family’s 5th Camary, and they are the greatest cars ever built! Won’t last!”

My Dad always had trouble pronouncing "Pontiac Parisienne." It usually came out as "Pontiac Parisoner."

 

[Number_35]

My car's been loosing coolant.

The coolant had been impounded, the jugs tied together with stout rope.

My car has been untying or cutting the ropes.

 

[RDMgr]

When people say 'dampening' when they mean 'damping', arrrgghhh!

Like I've always said, good grammar in writing has went.

 

[Toy4x4]

Wolf being pronounced woof.
Console being pronounced council. *Don't know why, but this popped into my head while trying to go to sleep...which made me think of this thread...which led to the "wolf" word...and delayed sleep!

 

[paulo57509]

Classic there and their and your and you're. And the word, "often". When did it got from OFF-EN to OFT-EN?

 

[Pablo]

Shart and shard

 

[vavavroom]

I know a guy who always gets tripped up by faux amis and by similar words. For example, he can't get 'penal code' right. And he of all people should know because he transports prisoners for a living.

 

[Number_35]

Pronouncing assembly as assembely, February as Febuary, espresso as expresso, et cetera as eck cetera, and Antarctica as Antartica. I could go on.

Asphalt as ashphalt.

A coworker thought my (correct) pronunciation was funny, and said "Huh, does it have a crack in it?"

 

[Number_35]

I can’t stand it when people say, “Between you and I,” or, “Just you and I.”

Although I do like the duet

Check out Mr Rabbitt's hare!

 

[Number_35]

I know if I had substituted saw/seen, my 3rd grade teacher's (Mrs. Welch, RIP) hair would have stood straight up. That would have been the one and only time I did that.

Miss Fricke (my Gr 4 teacher, RIP) would go ballistic over "My mother, she made this cake ..." rather than "My mother made this cake ..."

 

[Number_35]

Shart and shard

That guy with the unwanted broken glass on his dorsal area, he'd give you the shard off his back.

 

[Number_35]

It's not as fast as my Chevy Camero.

I hope you put Dexron in the transmission!

 

[vavavroom]

Some watch guys pronounce dual time as jewel time.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Chevrolet or Chev Row Let. Honestly!

 

[Pablo]

Chevrolet or Chev Row Let. Honestly!

Or chevrrrrlay

 

[Nesterenko]

Our English language is being massacred.
Too lazy to even move their tongues properly.
Example, then vs than. Easier to pronounce then. Compare them when speaking normally.
I don't know about you but I find then seems to take a little less effort. Then again, some people don't have a clue that there's even a difference. A lack of reading and writing skills perhaps. Cheers.