Words that irritate you when not written right

[Red-Chocolate]

Have you checked some newspaper articles? They always have some improper grammar or spelling. crying What is happening to the world!! question  

[Danapal]

When people use an incorrect form of the word "too."

Timmy has too dogs, and five cats, two...

Seriously, how can anyone get that wrong? It's either to, too, or two. Sometimes I find it hilarious when people say something like, "Use proper grammer." Ha, ha, ha, ha...  

[]Impetigo[]

I absolutely hate it when certain individuals type out "ur" or "your" when it should be you're! For sanity's sake, I always say "you are" under my breath, upon seeing said word.  

[Low-fat Llama Butter]

My manager at work writes "Wensday" on the schedule. mad  

[SeeBeeFlee]

"Mute point." I'm sorry, but the point happens to be "moot" not "mute." I see this in actual, printed novels that have supposedly been checked thoroughly by some kind of editor. (Forgive my wanton use of italics, but damn).

There is another small issue concerning the possessive that pops up quite often, and it irritates me to no end. If a person has a name that ends in an "s", then you still need to add another "s" to make it possessive. You don't just tack on the apostrophe and call it done, unless the thing that the person is possessing happens to start with an "s" or something sibilant.

It's James's chair, not James' chair, damn you all.

Also? "Separate." It's not terribly difficult to remember that the second vowel is an "a" as opposed to an "e".

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Have you checked some newspaper articles? They always have some improper grammar or spelling.

I've heard horror stories, and seen some of the miserable mistakes first hand. And the most depressing part? Quite a few newspapers don't care. Glaring grammatical errors prompt only a shrug instead of the rightful panic. They have ridiculously lazy copy editors or no copy editor at all. I worked for my high school newspaper, and we were fortunate enough to have a very competent copy editor and staff members who, generally speaking, cared about spelling things correctly and using the proper homonym. Sometimes we spent part of the class period hunched over the city's newspaper, or newspapers from other schools, not sure whether we should be laughing or crying.

It's come to a sad state of affairs when upstart teenagers have a better command of the English language than professional adults.  

[Elanchana]

I don't like it whe people mistake "your" and "you're" or "its" and "it's". And when people put "sing" instead of "sign" or vice versa.  

[Archdemonessa]

SeeBeeFlee

"Mute point." I'm sorry, but the point happens to be "moot" not "mute." I see this in actual, printed novels that have supposedly been checked thoroughly by some kind of editor. (Forgive my wanton use of italics, but damn).

There is another small issue concerning the possessive that pops up quite often, and it irritates me to no end. If a person has a name that ends in an "s", then you still need to add another "s" to make it possessive. You don't just tack on the apostrophe and call it done, unless the thing that the person is possessing happens to start with an "s" or something sibilant.

It's James's chair, not James' chair, damn you all.

Also? "Separate." It's not terribly difficult to remember that the second vowel is an "a" as opposed to an "e".

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Have you checked some newspaper articles? They always have some improper grammar or spelling.

I've heard horror stories, and seen some of the miserable mistakes first hand. And the most depressing part? Quite a few newspapers don't care. Glaring grammatical errors prompt only a shrug instead of the rightful panic. They have ridiculously lazy copy editors or no copy editor at all. I worked for my high school newspaper, and we were fortunate enough to have a very competent copy editor and staff members who, generally speaking, cared about spelling things correctly and using the proper homonym. Sometimes we spent part of the class period hunched over the city's newspaper, or newspapers from other schools, not sure whether we should be laughing or crying.

It's come to a sad state of affairs when upstart teenagers have a better command of the English language than professional adults.

Then my GRAMMAR teacher has taught me wrong. And I was in a high class school.  

[Elanchana]

Write, we know, when written right,
Should not be written right or wright.
Nor should it be written rite, but write.
Only then is it written right.  

[SeeBeeFlee]

Luna Ishukan

SeeBeeFlee

"Mute point." I'm sorry, but the point happens to be "moot" not "mute." I see this in actual, printed novels that have supposedly been checked thoroughly by some kind of editor. (Forgive my wanton use of italics, but damn).

There is another small issue concerning the possessive that pops up quite often, and it irritates me to no end. If a person has a name that ends in an "s", then you still need to add another "s" to make it possessive. You don't just tack on the apostrophe and call it done, unless the thing that the person is possessing happens to start with an "s" or something sibilant.

It's James's chair, not James' chair, damn you all.

Also? "Separate." It's not terribly difficult to remember that the second vowel is an "a" as opposed to an "e".

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Have you checked some newspaper articles? They always have some improper grammar or spelling.

I've heard horror stories, and seen some of the miserable mistakes first hand. And the most depressing part? Quite a few newspapers don't care. Glaring grammatical errors prompt only a shrug instead of the rightful panic. They have ridiculously lazy copy editors or no copy editor at all. I worked for my high school newspaper, and we were fortunate enough to have a very competent copy editor and staff members who, generally speaking, cared about spelling things correctly and using the proper homonym. Sometimes we spent part of the class period hunched over the city's newspaper, or newspapers from other schools, not sure whether we should be laughing or crying.

It's come to a sad state of affairs when upstart teenagers have a better command of the English language than professional adults.

Then my GRAMMAR teacher has taught me wrong. And I was in a high class school.

confused Sorry if I've offended you in some way. If you can tell me which part of the rant you take issue with, maybe we can...discuss it, somehow? I don't know.

In any event: this doesn't happen often (mostly in fanfic) but I do get a little bit frustrated when I see "peek" or "peak" being used in place of "pique."  

[Elanchana]

Oh, and don't forget grammar vs. grammer.

We had that as a nevermiss word for the longest time.

Nevermiss = a special spelling test in the Montessori 9-12 class (those are the ages, not the grades) where the testing doesn't end until everyone gets 100%.  

[gummybear_123]

I hate it when people say 'y r u'. God, what happened to words. I also don't like it when people put 'i' instead of 'I'.  

[.Never.Forever.]

Elanchana

Oh, and don't forget grammar vs. grammer.

We had that as a nevermiss word for the longest time.

Nevermiss = a special spelling test in the Montessori 9-12 class (those are the ages, not the grades) where the testing doesn't end until everyone gets 100%.

That must be a helluva long day.

 

[Toshiatsu]

Right -> "Rite"
I really hate that one scream .  

[Hope Everlasting]

I can't stand it when people use "there's" to mean "there are."

there's = there is (singular)  

[Winter-san]

I hate what most everyone has been saying. I mean, honestly people. It's equals "it is" and its is the possesive. What is so HARD about that? Any error that I see makes me cringe and wish I had a direct line into the culprit's ear. So I could yell. Very loudly. ^_^

And misspelling right, write, and the whole two too to you your you're yours thing...........It's ANNOYING. Can I throttle those people!? Please!?