Should of, could of but in the end just couldn't

CM66

Haha I love this thread! My major bugbears are people who use their / there and your / you're in the wrong way.

Drives me insane!

wigglebeena

shopaholic2 wrote: »

This "of" instead of "have" buge me so much, we had parents evening recently, and my 13 yr old daughter was horrified when I discussed this with her English teacher, I told him it was a massive bug bear of mine, "in the 1970's they would of had....."
"Mary woke to find that her cat had run away, she should of checked the neighbours house"
AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I said to him "how can you give her such high grades for her work when she is doing this???"
Apparently they are not allowed to point things like this out, so how the hell do our children learn then?
Anyway, suffice to say, My daughter wouldn't speak to me for days, .

English teachers aren't allowed to teach correct English? !!!!!!. No wonder employers despair.

987654

What really annoys Me is when People just use Capital letters Randomly for words that clearly Do not have a capital letter. I could Scream about it - maybe I need a chill Pill.

pinkduvetdiva

CM66 wrote: »

Haha I love this thread! My major bugbears are people who use their / there and your / you're in the wrong way.

Drives me insane!

How could I have left that one out?
My 12-year-old niece was showing me one of her school exercise books a few weeks ago. In one of her pieces of work, she had been writing about a "cheetah" but had instead written "cheater". The piece of work had been marked, but the error not corrected!!

sarahg1969

wigglebeena wrote: »

How about 'defiantly' instead of definitely? You see it all the time lately, and all I can say is !!!!!!? It's a whole different word!

Absolutely - that one really bugs me. If you search for it on here, loads of people use it.

Another one is weary instead of wary.

And haitch too. It is spelt aitch. The girl who sits next to me at work does it on the phone every day, and I want to strangle her!

tenmah

beedeedee wrote: »

I hate it when people say "Haytch" for the letter H - instead of "aitch".......my old professor used to say it as well and it drove me mad as I never liked to correct him!

This is the one that drives me mad! If you look at the word in the dictionary is is spelt AITCH, so to pronounce is haytch is completely wrong.

pimento

Tennant when they mean tenant.

pimento

wigglebeena wrote: »

I once used the word 'epitome' with, erm, three syllables. And that was in a university tutorial...

Epitome does have three syllables.

Hang on, I'm a doofus. It has four.

Maths never was my strong point...

wigglebeena

pinkduvetdiva wrote: »

I can't bear it when shops sell apple's, grape's or especially tomato's instead of tomatoes!
Get's on my nerve's....... :mad:

The worst thing is a misplaced apostrophe in the main sign over a shop. There's one on the bus service into a local town. You just think about what they spent on it, and if anyone pointed it out...

OMG and I know a stationery shop that advertises itself - on the shop-length
sign outside - as a stationary shop.

Fire_Fox

I am driven to distraction by people typing the equivalent of an A4 page of text without any paragraphs and often with little punctuation. The lack of para's genuinely makes my vision go funny and the lack of punctuation can often change the sense. If you ask politely for paragraphs you risk being accused of being an English language nazi (that word has been used).

My own bad habits are using a comma followed by and OR it's meaning belonging to it, when that actually means it is. My mother is a retired EFL/ ESL teacher so I should know better. Also in recent years I have noticed myself speed typing completely the wrong word - e.g. know instead of now or vice versa - although I am fully aware of the difference. Early stages of dementia?