I know I’m late to the thread, but my own top pet peeve is the misuse of the phrase “beg the question”. It does not simply mean to raise or call for a question. The meaning is to reason from a point which has been assumed, not proven. Too many people have heard the phrase somewhere, and think they’ll sound all intellectual by using it, but have no idea of its actual meaning.
(Oh, and another peeve is putting an apostrophe in the possessive of “it”.)
“(Oh, and another peeve is putting an apostrophe in the possessive of “it”.)”
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Laughing here. I used to do it until a Freeper straightened me out.
My pet peeve-—people who say “3:00 A.M. in the morning”.
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Better late than never. It’s been a great little thread and I learned beyond the contents of the article, thanks to the higher intelligence factor of our FR collective.