Posted on 09/08/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT by PeteePie
Discussions of English Language pet peeves provide an entertaining forum for the expression of ire. In fact, if a “pet” is something we cherish, and a “peeve” is something that annoys us, “pet peeves” are what we love to hate. Here’s a collection of common English solecisms—guaranteed not to literally blow your mind:
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I think Roger Waters edges him out with “we don’t need no education.” However, America holds the butchering title with “there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.”
YES!!!! I am 50 years old, and before, say, 5 years ago, NOBODY EVER confused then vs. than. Now it’s a 50% kind of thing. Blows my mind.
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But it IS what it is...
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In my short 62 years on this earth I have NEVER read an article where a journalist or heard a TV Talking Head use the proper past tense of the word “dive.”
The writers always writes “dove” as in “They dove into the water;” and the Talking Heads always say: “dove” with a long “o” as in “They dove into the water.”
“D-o-v-e” is abird.
The past tense of “dive” is “dived.”
I dive, you dive, he/she/it dives
We dive, you dive, they dive
I dived, you dived, he/she/it dived,
We dived, you dived, they dived
I have dived, you have dived, he/she/it has dived,
We have dived, you have dived, they have dived
I will have dived, you will have dived, he/she/it will have dived,
We will have dived, you will have dived, they will have dived
“I dive every day at the pool at the Boys’ Club.”
“I dived three times this week at the Boys’ Club.”
“I have dived at several pools in the local area.”
“By the time my competitive diving career ends, I will have dived 14 years.”
I think I’m correct.
English Majors: Dive in!
“There was a near miss in the skies...”
Did the planes almost collide but did not? Then it would be a near-hit. Or, the planes missed each other, but not “near miss”
Commentate and coronate.
Or maybe I should say they irritATE the hell outa me!
Anyway, commentators don't commentate. They comment. And kings don't get coronated. They get crowned!
Then, another current verbal crime that irritates me no end is the constant repitition on TV news of the term humanitarian crisis:
For example, a crisis like the current "ethnic cleansing" of Christians in the Middle East is an absolutely terrible happening, a disaster of Biblical proportions. How on earth can anybody with even a tiny bit of logical ability in his brain describe it as humanitarian? The term is really a ne plus ultra case of oxymoronism.
Typo! “The writers always write...”
“I could care less..”
It should be “I couldn’t care less.” Saying one “could care less” leads us to believe that they do care even a little and thus could care less.
How about: “irregardless?” I wince every time I hear the word used.
****There is no “d” in the word, “refrigerator”.****
If the English put a ‘d’ in it - then I shall defer to the English linguists who live in England and speak/write their language for which they do not charge ‘foreigners’ or plagiarists any user fees;)
“Hot water heater” If it’s already hot there is no reason to heat it. I have never taken a drink at the cold water cooler.
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Optics is the latest buzz word; see it, hear it, everywhere!
On versus upon
Personally, I hate it when people let little things like this bother them.
“Optics” is a leftist admission that they are not about substance, but about appearances,
ie, DECEPTION.
The PC police decided that sex is too graphic a word for sex.
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