Hackles rising

[TickleTheCat]

What are the 2 errors most used in our language that really make your hackles rise? Mine is 'bought' and 'brought' and the worst in my book is 'specific' and 'Pacific'.
A woman at work has just said that she 'brought' her new shoes from...... ARGHH

[Ethel]

could of, would of, should of. GRRRR

[jno]

specific and pacific? Never heard that one before! Atlantic and pedantic maybe.

[Quizmonkey]

Ethel - I'm with you on 'should of'. I corrected my niece onec and she actually argied that I was wrong!

Also work with someone who always says 'infer' when he means 'imply'.

And I collect non-literal uses of 'literally' (She literally exploded. He literally sh*t himself. etc). Aaaargh!

[Haggisdj]

With zacsaster and 'borrow', and 'issit' as a response to everything...

[Haggisdj]

..oops, forgot the m, sorry zacsmaster !!!!

Add people who forget letters in their spelling to my list...

[mycats]

People who say "I'll take taht OFF you" instead of from Grrrrr
and people asking HOW when they mean WHY aaaarrrrggghh

[mycats]

ahem or those that spell that -'taht' ha ha ooops

[heathfield]

Barter for bargain, less for fewer, convince for persuade, and v for versus, are only some from a very long list!

[dundurn]

I am frequently laid prostate by people who have problems with their prostrate, who can't tell their prone from their supine, but most of all who can't use effect and affect properly.

[johnlambert]

1) I didn't do/say nothing; should be I didn't do/say anything
2) the word "actually" when it it thrown into a sentence for no purpose than to string it out as in "I actually went to the shop and I actually bought some hair gel"

[johnlambert]

i spent 21 years in the Army and still can't say the word "armament", not very clever when one is trying to give a lecture on enemy tank recognition :-(

[EngTeach]

1. I work witha woman who says "supposubly", it drives me crazy.
2. People seem to say "conversate"- I battle this in school all the time. It's either to converse or have a conversation. The administration even makes announcements that "Students should not conversate in the hallways."
3. A good friend of mine says "acrossed"- she swears she doesn't, but now hwe kids do it, and that she hears. I told her they get it from her.

I know that's three, but couldn't narrow it down.

Tracy

[Quizmonkey]

Zacsmaster - try looking up the 'correct' pronunciation of vice versa in a good dictionary...

[stewey]

A lot of people don't realize that there is no such word as 'perogative'. As in 'It's a woman's perogative to change her mind'.

[stewey]

Mind you, I still use it..........much easier to say than 'prerogative'!!

[Loosehead]

People who say "Can I get" when they mean "Can I have" aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh

People who say "I ain't dun nuffink" so you have done something then, right oh.

It is now increasingly common to pu the word "Basically" at the start of every sentence! aaarrrrggghhh

[jno]

EngTeach, a standard verb in the USA these days seems to be 'to coronate'. It's what they do to kings.