Pet Peeves

When it comes to the following, there's nothing to write home about.

  • People who can't tell the difference between your and you're
  • Redundancies (ATM machine, PIN number, SAT test, HIV virus, rise up, 12 noon, tied at 14-14, two back-to-back, grand slam home run...)
  • Misspellings
  • Using entitled when you mean to use titled
  • Writing "an historic" instead of "a historic"
  • People who can't tell the difference between its and it's
  • Style inconsistencies
  • PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS
  • people who never use capitalization when typing
  • Using defense as a verb
  • Looking up regardless in the dictionary and finding "see IRREGARDLESS"
  • Commas before the conjunction in a simple series
  • People who can't tell the difference between there, their and they're
  • An inability to understand how apostrophes work with omitted figures (I grew up in the '80s, not the 80's.)
  • Using loose when you mean to use lose
  • Spelling weird with an ie instead of an ei
  • Creating one phony word (alot) out of two real words (a lot)
  • Adding apostrophes where none are needed (You may have DVDs for sale, but you don't have DVD's for sale.)
  • Spelling definitely with an a
  • Using "should of" instead of "should have"
  • Using "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less"
  • Text message shorthand (Thx. I will c u b4 I go, but 2nite I m busy.)
  • Missing hyphens
  • Double negatives
  • The phrase "new and improved"
  • Subject-verb disagreement
  • Product names that end in a z instead of an s (Bratz dolls)
  • Product names that start with an x instead of ex (Pringles Xtreme chips)
  • The fact that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing
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