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What English Pet Peeves do You Love to Hate?
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| Sep 4, 2014
| Dave Bricker
Posted on 09/08/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT by PeteePie
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For the would-be writer in you...
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT
by
PeteePie
To: PeteePie
Comprising of should be comprising or comprised of. Dave commits one of my own pet peeves.
Comprise: "consist of; be made up of."
"Comprised of" is redundant - that would be simply, "comprised" or "comprises" or "composed of", if you just have to use the word "of".
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:35:42 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
To: PeteePie
‘could of’
should be ‘could have’
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:40:05 AM PDT
by
maine yankee
(I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
To: grobdriver
Good catch. Compromised used in a sentence: "Like the country itself, our once rich language has been compromised like a whore."
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:41:13 AM PDT
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: PeteePie
On here?
Loose vs lose
I wouldn’t even say I “love” to hate it. I just hate it.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:41:22 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: PeteePie
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:44:02 AM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: PeteePie
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:44:40 AM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: Fester Chugabrew
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:45:19 AM PDT
by
halo66
To: PeteePie
I’ll side with John Derbyshire—data is singular.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:46:30 AM PDT
by
odawg
To: PeteePie
Every time I hear Paul McCartney sing, In this ever-changing world in which we live in, I cringe. Correct usage is
in which we live.
My third grade teacher said ‘Prepositions aren’t to end sentences with.”
Ha!
Forget proper English... no one is teaching it anymore.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: PeteePie
When people say “times it by ten” instead of “multiply by ten.” That may just be a Baltimoron thing. I haven’t heard it since moving from MD in 2007.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:48:14 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: PeteePie
“...at the end of the day...”
“...it is what it is...”
“...moving forward...”
...and all those stupid cliche catchphrases talking heads repeat endlessly as fillers for actual content.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:49:33 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: PeteePie
The confusion of “bring” and “take” bothers me. And so does the all-too-common double-negative “irregardless.”
To: PeteePie
Gender vs Sex
Gender is a grammatical term.
Sex refers to Male and Female.
To: PeteePie
To: SMARTY
You are correct...proper English is raciss...
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:50:58 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Bill Carson...meet Arch Stanton!)
To: maine yankee
To: odawg
Whether singular or plural, Derby can’t tell when it’s ouija.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:51:31 AM PDT
by
cornelis
To: Doctor 2Brains
>>Or couldve
Or the Mississippi derivative, “might could.”
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:51:55 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: PeteePie
You’re talking about a different word entirely.
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