Let off some steam with your 'favourite' words that people get wrong.....

[Moshe Gariani]

My blood is literally made to boil by students who are unable to use correctly the words "affect" and "effect".

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Using 'alternate' instead of 'alternative'. As in a road sign I saw that indicated road works ahead and told drivers to 'use alternate routes'.

Think you might have to live with that one. It is in the Oxford English dictionary as "another term for alternative" (although granted it says "chiefly North American")

 

[Aldo]

"I can be asked"

It's arsed!

 

[Murray 17]

Anyone saying 'we was' should be taken aside and neutered.

That would halve the population of Essex then!

On the theme of Essex, 'yous' to indicate the plural of you (which of course is a plural already)!

 

[livingston seagull]

Brought when they mean bought is by far the one that sends me off the scale.

Luckily, I don't hear it much, but I see it written all the time!

This!

I just don't know how people get this confused.

 

[Jimbo.GRFC]

Brought when they mean bought is by far the one that sends me off the scale.

Luckily, I don't hear it much, but I see it written all the time!

That one drives me nuts !

 

[defrocked priest]

Dude.....what a shyte word.

 

[DanielT]

Not so much a word, but as far as pronounciation is concerned, ....

The painful irony that one of the most mispronounced words is pronunciation

It's not even spelled right by many: 'pronounciation' is wrong. It's pronunciation. pro-nun-ciation not pronounce-iation

GETS ON MY FLIPPING NERVES!!!!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I believe the Oxford English dictionary now supports both the old and new meaning of decimate, so you might need to let that one go now.

Really? I'll let it go then.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I tend not to get too bothered about these things anymore as language changes especially English, and that is one of its strengths. Also I suspect there are many words that i get wrong.
One I do notice a lot is people writing loose instead of lose. The other one that grates a bit is the use of the word journey on reality tv shows, but i'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

 

[clippedgull]

"teh" instead of 'the' and "loose" instead of "lose"

 

[Lincoln Imp]

The random use of "industry" (I saw "the wedding industry" the other day)

"Meet with" rather than just "meet"

"Transportation" rather than transport

The confusion between "of" and "'ve" which sees "would of" used when "would have" or "would've" is meant.

The American pronunciation of "schedule"

 

[Lincoln Imp]

The painful irony that one of the most mispronounced words is pronunciation

its not even spelled right by many: 'pronounciation' is wrong. Its pronunciation. pro-nun-ciation not pronounce-iation

GETS ON MY FLIPPING NERVES!!!!

I don't like to bleat, but another thing that gets on my flipping nerves is when people miss out the apostrophe in "its" (checks carefully for any typing errors before pressing Post Quick Reply).

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Not a word, but double negatives always get my goat. "I never went to no pub" - what the hell does that mean ?

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

I find the confusion between "your" and "you're" incredibly annoying.

 

[Art Vs Science]

Not a single word example but people insisting on saying they have sky plussed it.

 

[Seaber]

Fran Sandanza
Glen Murray
Chris Woods
Elliot Bennet

And I'm not sure if it's Tano or Tanno, so whichever one of them is wrong annoys me.

 

[skipper734]

I think people are getting, is complicated wrong as well. I don't think it has a d on the end or a p, as in ees comlicate.

 

[Blackadder]

It was so secluded I decided to do a bit of NOOD Sunbathing.

"Did you buy a second hand car?"

"No, I bought a NOO one!"

 

[KNC]

Really? I'll let it go then.

You must be decimated.