The gas station near my house has a marquee that lists specials and other items of interest. For about two months it read: Down Load our App.
Everyday as I drove by, I would mutter "Download is one word people, one word."
I almost hauled a ladder over and fixed it, since telling the manager about the error had no effect. However, that might have been difficult to explain to the police. "Honest Officer, I'm simply fixing this here spelling error that has been driving me bat s+++ crazy."
I stopped at a gas station once and there was a sign on every pump that read, "prepay frist".
This reminds me of a person who used to be Human Resources Manager of our department. At staff meetings, she frequently mentioned that this or that committee needed more members and, "remember, you can self-nominate yourself." It was all we could do to supress our guffaws. Out of her hearing, we would joke, "I'm going to self-nominate myself to make the coffee." "Would you self-nominate yourself to copy this?" That HR person is no longer here. Grammar was not her only problem. 
AIt's technically punctuation, but this is another one of my pet peeves.
http://www.apostrophecatastrophes.com/
Also:
I cringe when I hear the redundancy of baby colt, baby chicks, and even tuna fish--as in sammwichs. Oh, this thread gives me such a belly laugh. I am still chuckling over $65 orange colorectals!
Jan
I cringe when I hear the redundancy of baby colt, baby chicks, and even tuna fish--as in sammwichs. Oh, this thread gives me such a belly laugh. I am still chuckling over $65 orange colorectals!
Jan
My husband is driven crazy by that... I have to admit that I do it just to wach his skin crawl... I know horrible wife.
do you think you guys are wound a little tight?
please don't hurt me
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do you think you guys are wound a little tight?
:D please don't hurt me
My mother is wound pretty tight. Sometimes it's to the point that she's a nervous ball of potential energy... I guess I'm at the mercy of my genetic predispositions. :)
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am i to conclude you're [I]both[/I] coming after me??? :lol:
Lol! Literally! :lol:
My mother is wound pretty tight. Sometimes it's to the point that she's a nervous ball of potential energy... I guess I'm at the mercy of my genetic predispositions.
Oh oh, now we are leaving English and going into physics, are we? Must confess, not exactly my best subject....
Jan
dang been together like a few hours & already in trouble
that's gotta be a record
AOh laughing so hard.
It really irritates me when people mispronounce salmon or often. There are silent letters...Sam-on & Off-en.
I'm terrible guilty of not usin complete sentences on this board. I also begin sentences with and or but. However, when composing emails or other professional communication, I behave myself. I'm always amazed when people end sentences with prepositions. "Where's that at?" No no no! Where is that.
Oh laughing so hard.
It really irritates me when people mispronounce salmon or often. There are silent letters...Sam-on & Off-en.
I'm terrible guilty of not usin complete sentences on this board. I also begin sentences with and or but. However, when composing emails or other professional communication, I behave myself. I'm always amazed when people end sentences with prepositions. "Where's that at?" No no no! Where is that.
I swear, that has become SO common in recent years... It drives me BONKERS! What is worse, is I hear myself do it, occasionally 
It is just so over done, and I don't remember hearing it so much before some old rap song came out, where the rapper did it. Something about "where you at?" I am not a listener, but I would hear it vibrating the rims off cars when I was driving, and every time, I would say, "Where ARE YOU,dammit!"
And it kills me when people pronounce a letter that isn't there. I am always asking my mom where the "L" is, in "both". She says "bolth" every.single.time!
Oh laughing so hard.
It really irritates me when people mispronounce salmon or often. There are silent letters...Sam-on & Off-en.
I'm terrible guilty of not usin complete sentences on this board. I also begin sentences with and or but. However, when composing emails or other professional communication, I behave myself. I'm always amazed when people end sentences with prepositions. "Where's that at?" No no no! Where is that.
I swear, that has become SO common in recent years... It drives me BONKERS! What is worse, is I hear myself do it, occasionally It is just so over done, and I don't remember hearing it so much before some old rap song came out, where the rapper did it. Something about "where you at?" I am not a listener, but I would hear it vibrating the rims off cars when I was driving, and every time, I would say, "Where ARE YOU,dammit!"
once again walking into the jaws of death amongst the walters i request immunity from persecution prosecution please
but my daughter has a spiffy masters degree in something about writng a lot--she's been editor of bladeebla and she proofs for me when i write--she's totally gifted and certified
she told me not to worry about the prepostions at the end of sentences--because i had been pointing them out to her when she didn't fix them for me ;)
so i doubt she was cutting me slack--but i just thought i'd put that out there
language is a living thing--it might not still be a factor--i'll check with her though
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shanter knows too i'm sure
she told me not to worry about the prepostions at the end of sentences--because i had been pointing them out to her when she didn't fix them for me ;)
so i doubt she was cutting me slack--but i just thought i'd put that out there
language is a living thing--it might not still be a factor--i'll check with her though
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shanter knows too i'm sure
For the "preposition at the end of a sentence" there are different opinions. I think at present that the consensus is: (1) Leave the preposition at the end if it is necessary (e.g., "What were you standing on?" "What were you standing" makes no sense, and very very few people would say "On what were you standing?"), (2) Do not use a preposition at the end of a sentence if is extraneous, unimportant, or redundant (someone else gave this example: "Where are you at?").
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. For now.
Another nitpicky grammar thing: "unique" refers to one thing and it cannot be modified. Something cannot be "most unique" or "very unique." Either it is unique or it isn't.
For the "preposition at the end of a sentence" there are different opinions. I think at present that the consensus is: (1) Leave the preposition at the end if it is necessary (e.g., "What were you standing on?" "What were you standing" makes no sense, and very very few people would say "On what were you standing?"), (2) Do not use a preposition at the end of a sentence if is extraneous, unimportant, or redundant (someone else gave this example: "Where are you at?").
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. For now.
Another nitpicky grammar thing: "unique" refers to one thing and it cannot be modified. Something cannot be "most unique" or "very unique." Either it is unique or it isn't.
Where were you when I was learning English? I still have a hard time with this, I wasn't formally taught and have picked up so many bad habits.
I am an ellipsis abuser... big time...
For the "preposition at the end of a sentence" there are different opinions. I think at present that the consensus is: (1) Leave the preposition at the end if it is necessary (e.g., "What were you standing on?" "What were you standing" makes no sense, and very very few people would say "On what were you standing?"), (2) Do not use a preposition at the end of a sentence if is extraneous, unimportant, or redundant (someone else gave this example: "Where are you at?").
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. For now.
Another nitpicky grammar thing: "unique" refers to one thing and it cannot be modified. Something cannot be "most unique" or "very unique." Either it is unique or it isn't.
Oh, I see this so often and it drives me nuts! I know, I am OCD over grammar. Or, would it be OCDd over grammar? Or just spelled out: Obsessive-Compulsive-Disordered? Oh heck, it just bugs the heck out of me!
Jan
No, I am the biggest ellipsis abuser. I know it and it still is my most used, along with the ----hyphen or even dash.
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