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Original message sent by GeminiRJ
And l laugh every time I remember the local news anchor reading "ka shay" instead of "cash" when describing a "cache" of weapons that was discovered.
I see in my previous post that I forgot the "h" in shudder. I guess I was in too much of a hurry to get back to work! Proofreading is a good thing....
My number one pet peeve isn't a spelling mistake, it's a grammar error. I hate it when someone says "I seen it happen". It's like nails on a chalkboard.
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Original message sent by jason_kraft
Perhaps the cache of weapons was particularly prestigious?
I see in my previous post that I forgot the "h" in shudder. I guess I was in too much of a hurry to get back to work! Proofreading is a good thing....
My number one pet peeve isn't a spelling mistake, it's a grammar error. I hate it when someone says "I seen it happen". It's like nails on a chalkboard.
Oh, absolutely! My own DH often makes that same mistake...
Since we are on peeves of other varieties, I must mention that chewing with the mouth open, breathing loudly, breathing through the mouth, or just leaving your mouth hanging open are all peeves of mine. I feel that if you don't have the sense (not since!!) to close your mouth, you must not have much sense, at all!
And nail biting, or finger chewing, and scab picking are all peeves. Seriously, fingers are dirty, do NOT put them in your mouth! You replace nasty germs with other nasty germs, while ingesting them...GROSS! Yes, you can wash them, but who washes them each time they touch something? And even using a hand towel can re-infest them, as can touching knobs, phones, money (GAG! I HATE touching singles after I went to pick my drunken ex and his brother up from a strip club 
) the shopping cart, children (lol) and your purse, keys, keyboard, back of your chair....ALL germ hotspots!
Last night, I saw my husband working his toes over, after taking his boots off, then start chewing his finger skin... I did NOT kiss him good night.
I saw a post in my email from "someone" saying that this thread is a pet peeve. I suggest "whoever" feels this way, unsubscribe, and ignore it ;-)
More that drive me crazy: thankyou, advise/advice, marshmellows, dowl, accomodation, sucess, thier, peice, sudder, pour/poor, oppertunity, wharehouse, rather then, table clothes, American’s/Americans, lady’s/ladies, pluse, pillers, ceep, swith, handal, gnash, draps, lillies, troble, micheals, who’s/whose, truefully, recepie, receipe, and these that are also one word… over powering, over head, paper work, face book, store front, time frame, time line, first hand, before hand, butter milk, hand made, feed back, other wise, brain storm, under price, breath taking, over night, place mats, and bad mouthing.
I saw a post in my email from "someone" saying that this thread is a pet peeve. I suggest "whoever" feels this way, unsubscribe, and ignore it ;-)
Seriously? I'd make a stronger suggestion than that, but I've been told I have the mouth of a sailor (but my grandmother's eyes), lol.
My pet peeve of the moment (not a spelling peeve) is that I haven't been getting any updates at all on some threads (this being one of them), and one a minute on others.
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Original message sent by Annabakescakes
I saw a post in my email from "someone" saying that this thread is a pet peeve. I suggest "whoever" feels this way, unsubscribe, and ignore it ;-)
I have an americanism that drives me bonkers. 'He lighted the match.' In Australia he lit the match. We have adopted multiple American words and things over the years but this is one that sits very badly in my brain spaces.
That's not an Americanism...I would never say "lighted." Completely wrong use of the English language!
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Original message sent by cazza1
I have an americanism that drives me bonkers. 'He [B]lighted[/B] the match.' In Australia he [B]lit[/B] the match. We have adopted multiple American words and things over the years but this is one that sits very badly in my brain spaces.
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Original message sent by Norasmom
That's not an Americanism...I would never say "lighted." Completely wrong use of the English language!
I've read lighted, but people don't usually say it. 'She lighted the candle', makes sense.
Uh, no... doesn't sound right. From the comments in the link that Jason provided... this makes more sense:
I have always assumed (learned as a child?) that lighted meant illuminated and lit meant ignited, which is somewhat reflected in the quotes above.
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Original message sent by CWR41
Uh, no... doesn't sound right. From the comments in the link that Jason provided... this makes more sense:
[I]I have always assumed (learned as a child?) that lighted meant illuminated and lit meant ignited, which is somewhat reflected in the quotes above.[/I]
I've read through most, but not all, of these, and I'm surprised that no one mentioned the use of the word "of" rather than "have" or the conjunction " 've."
"I could of had a piece of cake" rather than "I could've had a piece of cake."
"I wish I would of gone to the store before the storm hit" rather than "I wish I would've (or would have) gone to the store before the storm hit."
Every time I read "of" instead of "have" or " 've" I about go nuts!
I've read through most, but not all, of these, and I'm surprised that no one mentioned the use of the word "of" rather than "have" or the conjunction " 've."
Every time I read "of" instead of "have" or " 've" I about go nuts!
It drives me nuts, as well. It's on my list on page 7 (of/have)!
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Original message sent by Annabakescakes
Some neighbors of mine would [I]bath[/I] their kids, rather than [I]bathe[/I] them... But, [I]irregardless[/I], they would [I]warsh[/I] them in the tub.
My mother says 'worsh' all the time!! And Worshington! She does a load of worsh!
Original message sent by SugaredSaffron
ROFL I've never seen irregardless used!
My husband keeps using the word. Drives me nuts!!
HAHAHAHA... I saw that on facebook.. cracked up! Autocorrect is killing my spelling! Every time I write something, I'll go back and see the errors and it drives me nuts!
We are from New Orleans and if you know anyone from New Orleans get them to say "sink". We say "zink" down here, ahhhhh it drives me crazy! I correct my family ALL THE TIME sometimes I feel rude, but I can't help it. I want to scream when I hear it, lol.
From today! (not including possible typos):
alittle, Dr. Suess, dolope, Guiness, devine, rice krises, equiptment, exactlo, differant, minnine, minne, regrat, handel, their/they’re, assistant’s/assistants, accually, nefews, accomidate, ecalaires, recieved, thank’s/thanks, thanku, defenetly, definetly, approuved, palette’s/palate’s, everone, constantley, setteled, cartidges, teirs, barbell/barrel, prolly, seel/sell, herd/heard, encase/in case, cocoktai, accoding, cheeper, hicups, dummie, shinny, fraid, ganche, dummy’s/dummies, perhapes, acatual, prefere, backed/baked, due/do, rake/rack, none/non, incorperate, then/than, than/then, sourceam, unfortantly, threw/through, know/now, ok, friends/friend’s, cakepan, to/too, its/it’s, caeg, expenses/expensive, whipcreme, refridgerating, the’d, im/I’m, childs, dont, wont, google/going, graffitti, moms/mom’s, cause/because, god/God, shorting, your/you’re, mashes/mashed, and lit/bit.
And, these are also compound words:
no where, any one, through out, over cook, your self, wood grain, corn starch, break down, a piece, some one, sugar work, lace work, and in to.
Sometimes “sometime” should be “some time”!
Use a “?” after a question.
From today! (not including possible typos):
alittle, Dr. Suess, dolope, Guiness, devine, rice krises, equiptment, exactlo, differant, minnine, minne, regrat, handel, their/they’re, assistant’s/assistants, accually, nefews, accomidate, ecalaires, recieved, thank’s/thanks, thanku, defenetly, definetly, approuved, palette’s/palate’s, everone, constantley, setteled, cartidges, teirs, barbell/barrel, prolly, seel/sell, herd/heard, encase/in case, cocoktai, accoding, cheeper, hicups, dummie, shinny, fraid, ganche, dummy’s/dummies, perhapes, acatual, prefere, backed/baked, due/do, rake/rack, none/non, incorperate, then/than, than/then, sourceam, unfortantly, threw/through, know/now, ok, friends/friend’s, cakepan, to/too, its/it’s, caeg, expenses/expensive, whipcreme, refridgerating, the’d, im/I’m, childs, dont, wont, google/going, graffitti, moms/mom’s, cause/because, god/God, shorting, your/you’re, mashes/mashed, and lit/bit.
And, these are also compound words:
no where, any one, through out, over cook, your self, wood grain, corn starch, break down, a piece, some one, sugar work, lace work, and in to.
Sometimes “sometime” should be “some time”!
Use a “?” after a question.
I saw one that made me think of you (hint hint) severing, rather than serving. WOW.
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