Comments on: Grammar Pet Peeves

By: Rico

Rico — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:50:51 +0000

My all-time favorite one is “I seen it” or “I seent the WHOLE thing” or “What had happened was” yuck! Ugh!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:50:41 +0000

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)

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:40:40 +0000

And no spell check to catch my typos

By: Leigh

Leigh — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:13:00 +0000

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?)

By: Murphy

Murphy — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:45:50 +0000

“Irregardless.”

It’s NOT A WORD. That’s the big one that drives me nuts right now.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:57:27 +0000

OH YEAH!! The Meijer one gets me everytime too!!!

By: minijonb

minijonb — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:07:23 +0000

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 = ; - )

By: Faith - FR

Faith - FR — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:08:58 +0000

“Meijers” or worse yet “Meijerses” as in, “We went to Meijers to buy groceries.” —-dar! It’s just Meijer people…

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:37:38 +0000

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.

By: Deb

Deb — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:58:04 +0000

“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