Grammatical errors that make you cringe!

[skooter]

I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".

[dgo71]

"Would of" and "could of" drive me batty.
Also when someone spells "lose" as "loose." "We can't afford to loose focus..." Ugh.

[Fastball]

This is a great thread. Two of my pet peeves (although I'm sure I'm guilty from time to time) are the use of double negatives and the improper "use of quotation marks".

- I can't see nothing wrong with that card.

- I haven't "never owed nothing" to no one.

[steve B]

Not much really bugs me, I make plenty of mistakes myself.

But the two that really get me are
Mixing tenses - "That car needs restored" instead of "this car needs to be restored" (I forget the term for the "to be " that makes it right, but I know someone here will know. )

And the textspeak. Is it really 2 hard 2 type the extra few letters?

Steve B

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Fastball

This is a great thread. Two of my pet peeves (although I'm sure I'm guilty from time to time) are the use of double negatives and the improper "use of quotation marks".

- I can't see nothing wrong with that card.

- I haven't "never owed nothing" to no one.

good ones ryan...those really irk me too...talk about sounding stupid!!!!

[frankbmd]

I should have started this thread when I could have. Who would have thought that Pete would beat me to it?

Is anyone interest in my Gene Wouldling and Tiger Woulds collection?

[celoknob]

I thought my grade and high school teachers were stifling in their focus on grammar over substance. Personally, I've always considered myself a poor speller. Nevertheless, for some reason the frequent use of possessive form when the plural was intended always drives me crazy:

"T206's for sell"

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

I should have started this thread when I could have. Who would have thought that Pete would beat me to it?

Is anyone interest in my Gene Wouldling and Tiger Woulds collection?

i think if you'd started this thread, Frank...it'd be a tad bit more popular!!!!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Definately Its my favorite.

[egri]

My big one is when people use 'r', 'u' and 'c' instead of 'are', 'you' and 'see'. I can understand if it's on Twitter, where they have the 140 character limit, but outside of that, use real words.

[SAllen2556]

Many people in formal settings will use the wrong pronoun case for "I" and "me".
My wife purchased the tickets for my son and I.

No! My wife purchased the tickets for my son and me.
Watch the news for 10 minutes and you'll hear someone mess that up.

Watching sports, I hear many athletes use "myself" incorrectly.
I have to do what's best for the team and myself.

No! I have to do what's best for the team and me.

In writing, I hate when people use apostrophes on words that don't require them:
Old photo's for sale.

I just don't understand what people are thinking when they do this!

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by skooter

I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".

+1

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by skooter

I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".

That's the one for me, too.

[Butch7999]

A conversational affectation -- technically not a grammar issue -- that hits us like the sound of fingernails on a blackboard:
the deliberate imposition of a "sh" sound at the start of any word that begins with the consonant cluster "str"...
we hear it every night from the under-30 contingent of the local TV news crews -- "shtreet" ... "shtrong"... "shtrike"...
we could just shtrangle 'em...

[cool-vintage]

Originally Posted by skooter

I don't know why, but I could scream when I read "I could care less", knowing they mean "I couldn't care less".

This is number 1 on my list too.
Others include: When homophones are used incorrectly, Using a letter or number to replace a word, When someone uses the word "Literally" figuratively.

When I first saw this thread it made me think of Weird Al's song "Word Crimes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by cool-vintage

This is number 1 on my list too.
Others include: When homophones are used incorrectly, Using a letter or number to replace a word, When someone uses the word "Literally" figuratively.

When I first saw this thread it made me think of Weird Al's song "Word Crimes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

FWIW, I agree, ur right.

[Bocabirdman]

Spell-Check has created bad habits. Instead of reading for typos, some folks look as far as the red underline. That allows all but the incorrectly spelled words to slide by.

[ullmandds]

good stuff guys...one thing that really bugs me is when referring to the t206 uzit verso people say "an uzit" as opposed to a "uzit"...am I crazy here????

[Peter_Spaeth]

uzit or lose it

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

good stuff guys...one thing that really bugs me is when referring to the t206 uzit verso people say "an uzit" as opposed to a "uzit"...am I crazy here????

No, you're not alone, Pete.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Spell-Check has created bad habits. Instead of reading for typos, some folks look as far as the red underline. That allows all but the incorrectly spelled words to slide by.

So true. Spell checker finds no errors in this note.

Deer Mr. Boss sir,

I am writing to inform ewe that eye halve a very good spell checker on my computer and that my letter four ewe last weak was not grammatically incorrect as I used this spell checker, it plainly marquees four my revue the miss stakes eye kin knot sea. Eye right my letter and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong or write and it shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite. I run that letter an also this one threw it and am pleased two say it tolled me that it's letter perfect in its weigh.

Seined

You're receptionist

[digdugdig]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

So true. Spell checker finds no errors in this note.

Deer Mr. Boss sir,

I am writing to inform ewe that eye halve a very good spell checker on my computer and that my letter four ewe last weak was not grammatically incorrect as I used this spell checker, it plainly marquees four my revue the miss stakes eye kin knot sea. Eye right my letter and weight four it two say weather eye am wrong or write and it shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite. I run that letter an also this one threw it and am pleased two say it tolled me that it's letter perfect in its weigh.

Seined

You're receptionist

In my younger days (and daze), I dated Miss Stakes ... quite a few of them, actually!!