Grammar Pet Peeves
Have you ever heard someone say something like this: ”Those dishes need washed”? Grrr!
NO! Bad! **Playtah rolls up newspaper and smacks the offender on the nose**
It’s either a) “Those dishes need to be washed,” or b) “Those dishes need washing.”
[Or the best option, c) "Wendy's dishes are dirty. I will wash them for her."]
Do you have any grammar peeves?
Gracie responds:
Posted: June 23rd, 2006 at 7:40 pm →
Grizzy says to tell you he would be happy to wash your dishes for you. But you must bring him a shrubbery.
BTW, my peeves are about mispronunciations–’exzetera,’ ‘anyways’, ‘jewlery’,'nukular’ (and we ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL know who says THAT one, don’t we….)and so on.
What say you, pretty maid?
Bev responds:
Posted: June 23rd, 2006 at 8:34 pm →
If I could find them I would be doing alot better.
Deb responds:
Posted: June 24th, 2006 at 8:58 am →
“Anyways” is a big one for me!! Or I had a friend a while back who used to say, “set” rather then “sit”. They don’t bug me enough that I’d throw stuff at the person though because I make a lot of mistakes when I’m speaking or writing and I wouldn’t want anything thrown at me. LOL
Rachel responds:
Posted: June 24th, 2006 at 10:37 am →
People mock how I pronouce things sometimes, but I think that is more of an accent than pronoucing words incorrectly.
I say “mayo-naise” instead of “man-ayze” and “sear-up” instead of “sir-up”.
My biggest pet peeve being from the great state of Washington is when someone includes an “R” and says Warshington or I have to warsh my dishes. Drives me crazy. Especially when you live in that state. My grandmother who lived there for over 50 years always icluded the R.
Oh,and when you pronouce the state of Oregon it is “Oar-ih-gun” not “Oar-ih-gone”. I work in a call center and when I hear agents say “Oar-ih-gone” when verifying an address I cringe.
Faith - FR responds:
Posted: June 24th, 2006 at 2:08 pm →
“Meijers” or worse yet “Meijerses” as in, “We went to Meijers to buy groceries.” —-dar! It’s just Meijer people…
minijonb responds:
Posted: June 24th, 2006 at 9:07 pm →
I’ve run across waitstaff at fancy restaurants that call Espresso, “Ex-presso.” It must be all those gen-y kids thinking it’s a gen-x thing = ; - )
Deb responds:
Posted: June 25th, 2006 at 8:57 pm →
OH YEAH!! The Meijer one gets me everytime too!!!
Murphy responds:
Posted: June 27th, 2006 at 11:45 am →
“Irregardless.”
It’s NOT A WORD. That’s the big one that drives me nuts right now.
Leigh responds:
Posted: June 27th, 2006 at 3:13 pm →
Ok, Meijers is not correct. But I use it as Meijer’s, which is technically correct. Meijer’s is owned by the Meijer family so the possesive form is correct.
My pet peeve is most in tyed/written stuff-there, their, they’re. Or your, you’re. Or Haven’t got. (you have not got?)
Leigh responds:
Posted: June 28th, 2006 at 8:40 am →
And no spell check to catch my typos
Jonathan responds:
Posted: July 9th, 2006 at 1:50 pm →
The common error that bugs me the most is the phrase “I could care less.” I have tried my best to explain to the people who use this that it means the exact opposite of what they are trying to say, but it mostly falls on deaf ears. I really could care less when people use that term. ;0)
Rico responds:
Posted: July 10th, 2006 at 5:50 pm →
My all-time favorite one is “I seen it” or “I seent the WHOLE thing” or “What had happened was” yuck! Ugh!
Mark Pennington responds:
Posted: August 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 am →
Actually, they say, “Those dishes need warshed.” Grammar pet peeves bug me, but so do pronunciation pet peeves. Check out these Top 40 Pronunciation Pet Peeves, but warning… you may cringe on a few that you mispronounce.