list the grammatical errors that educated people say or do that get your goat

bad use of homonyms:

there/their
hear/here
to/too

using "f's" instead of "th's"

mouf/mouth
souf/south

using "pacific" instead of "specific"
"be pacific in what you mean"

ending sentences with prepositions
"where you going AT?
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your/you're really pisses me off.

I make mistakes all the time but for some reason when people say ALOT it really bugs me! It's two words damnit! A LOT!

I also hate it when people say "He gave some gifts to Jack and I", etc.... it really gets my goat.

fer as for...

worsh as wash....

when people use apostrophe's in plural word's.

"also", when people put quotation "marks" around words for no apparent "reason".

also when people say...I could care less...

It's I couldn't care less!

Mostbeautifulgrlntheworld said:

everyone in my dad's side of the family says this, but i always thought it was more of a dialect thing than bad grammar.

they also say "feesh" for "fish".

When people say "there's" when they should say "there are". Like "there's too many grammatical errors in this sentence" instead of "there are...". Drive me bats

Miami had the worst dialect I had ever heard!

Who dat dur?
Where you be at gurl?
Hey Shottie!


Good Lord that mess drove me nuts!

mutha fugger


it's mother fucker

Sorry for any offense you might be taken with this, but since I joined prince.org my English is becoming worse and worse. BECAUSE OF YOU, AMERICANS!!!!!

Heavenly said:

People who actually write the word like in a sentence, as if they were speaking.

It's bad enough saying it, but to write it you have to be, like, pretty fucking dumb.

PREDOMINANT said:

Anxiety said:

Aha, caught one

PREDOMINANT said:

it's like totally a stylistic choice, sheesh

Anxiety said:

umm...yeah!

Steadwood said:

It is suppose to be grammar, it think. I have no idea what that other word is!

GangstaFam said:

i can like stop whenever i like want to, okayyyy?

Steadwood said:

The old lady who hangs around with Granpa

ShySlantedEye1 said:

hmmm ..........Yes....I forgot about spelling too.........

PREDOMINANT said:

.....What's "Spelling"? ...

Americans who say "Where are you AT?" - yes, we have some language differences, but that is always gramatically wrong.

Or saying "Math" instead of "Maths". It's short for Mathematics, when you go to a "Math" class are you just studying the one sum?

People who say "of" instead of "have" just because it sounds like "of" when shortened - "It must've happened" does not translate into "It must of happened"

Abundant mis-use of apostrophes, especially on public signs and official published documents.

People not knowing the difference between "to" and "too".
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Ellie said:

we don't have maths in america. i think it's a neato way of saying it, but if you said it in, say, indiana or ohio, you'd just get funny looks.

Anxiety said:

meltwithu said:

who the fuck does that?

[Edited 8/4/05 3:11am]

TheFrog said:

it's very common here in chicago.