What grammatical error drives you nuts?

[cat]

People who use an I instead of a Y (tyre)

People who use a Z instead of an S (analyse)

An inability to spell centre and a mistaken belief that you can quote - since when has quote been a verb?

People asking you 'what does it say?' when you are reading something - it does not say anything, however it reads .....

People who do not know when to use 'who' and when to use 'whom'.

Of course I am a Brit so EVERYTHING I say should be taken with a pinch of salt

 

[Lunachick]

Those darn dangling participles.

I found this example: After rotting in the cellar for weeks, my brother brought up some oranges. Ewwww! Leave the rotting brother down there!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Grammer rules are just there to seperate the classes. Actual grammer is a fluid, ever changing thing. The only reason to correct someone that you understood is to make your self look better than them (teachers being an exception). I like to hear peoples persinality in how they speek an write. Besides, not once have I ever met someone that speaks perfect "King English".

 

[davidb]

People that say potato instead of tater

 

[Cindiloohoo]

You folks would go crazy in my house. Mispronunciation is a given with my DH and kids. My 18 year old mispronounces the word pronunciation!! She says proNOUNciation...drives me up the wall!!!!

 

[greyhorsewoman]

Inappropriate and OVERUSE of the apostrophe. It's (it is) the dog's toy, not yours. However, I hit the dog on its nose (possessive). To see your's or our's drives me up the chalkboard !
Confusing the two forms of its is a very common mistake. It's can mean "it is" when an apostrophe is used to make a contraction, but its, i-t-s-no-apostrophe, is a possessive pronoun just like hers, ours, and yours, none of which take an apostrophe.
Additional mistakes ~~ such as: I had the egg's on sale or the horse's are loose in the yard.

 

[Cara]

I had the hardest time when I moved here from England. I had to take a test to prove I could speak English before I could enroll in my classes at college. Of course the appointment was after enrollment began, so I couldn't get into any of my first-choice classes.

I had one professor who would correct my English by writing 'in the US we would say....'. I think he was trying to be helpful, but it did not come across that way. I'm to the point now where i've forgotten some British English sentence constructions/conventions, but I don't know when i'm using the American version correctly.

 

[cat]

Do not worry Cara dear, rent an English film and it will all come flooding back! We understand you are merely undercover and have not gone native

 

[Cindiloohoo]

Quote:

We, as Americans, do not even really speak English, we Americanized the language that was English. When is the last time you saw a skunk?

What's a biscuit, by your definition? You don't even have Oppossum's or Racoons. Worlds apart in language, and it gets on Brit's nerves so bad....we still love you!!

 

[Opa]

My grammar lived in ne Arkansas, so did my grandpaw, so maybe that whar I learnt how to talk more gooder than most of you'ns.