What words annoy you when used wrong or people don't know the meaning of?

Footballers mixing up tenses in a sentence.

Lightening when referring to lightning.

Should of instead of should have. Keemunity instead of community. Arks instead of ask.

One that has always grated on me is seen instead of saw. As in 'I seen her' It pains me to type it. Another is the current use of myself instead of I, e.g. John and myself instead of John and I.

Agree with Greyduster. This sort of thing is OK as a kind of game among we old fogeys but definitely Bad Form to ever correct anyone unbidden.

Shouldn't this be on the Pedants thread! 😉
I have to excuse some mistakes because predictive text is often guilty.

The wrong words and grammar are used so often that it's easy to think it's ok.
Hence: he was stood there and she was sat .
Could I swear these are both wrong?

Devorgilla

Fewer v less. Even newsreaders get it wrong.

Surely that's the scriptwriters not the newsreaders.
But most of this is becoming arcane knowledge nowadays.
At least for everyday usage.

Another one for was instead of were.
Lend instead of borrow.
Learn instead of taught.

kittylester

Earlier a man on the tv said someone had been 'capitulated into the headlines' - I still haven't recovered.

I've heard and even read discussions where people call for a return of capital punishment in schools

You fell into that elephant trap OP...
People who live in glass houses etc

Laying instead of lying. The dog was laying on the rug. How many eggs?

CrazyUSA

For example your instead of you're.

Using the word
Wrong
instead of
Wrongly
In the OP

Or even using the word wrong when it should be wrongly .....

grannyjan2

Surely .. "which" words annoy when used "wrongly" .. OK .. I'm a pedant ..

You're correct.

BlueBelle

To my ears the title should be what words annoy you when said wrongly not what words annoy you when said wrong
Now maybe that s being pedantic 🤣

I thought the same. You're completely right.

While my own use of the English language has been deemed to be pretty near faultless (dives behind the sofa, having donned a tin hat) I don’t feel it’s my place to criticise the way anyone else makes use of the language. That we communicate is the important thing, surely?

Fewer v less. Even newsreaders get it wrong.

Placed on the chair. Speed lets me down every time. Lack of care really, letting myself down.

Surely .. "which" words annoy when used "wrongly" .. OK .. I'm a pedant ..

Daughter-in-laws instead of daughters-in-law.
Nucular instead of nuclear.
Skelington instead of skeleton.
You was instead of you were.
He was sat instead of he was sitting, unless of course he was physically lifted and place on the chair.
Bring back grammar schools or, at the very least, teachers capable of teaching good grammar or correcting poor grammar.
Just a nod to the current tennis interest. I wish McEnroe would stop calling Djokovic Joke a vich. Not funny. Smacks of the green eyed monster.

Nannee49

Font instead of typeface...drives me absolutely nuts.

Isn’t that correct though, or I am being very dim?

Draws instead of drawers.

I think, BlueBelle what Grandma French meant is that the apostrophe was missing from 'that's' in your original post. Probably by accident rather than design.

BlueBelle

Yes Grandmafrench I said I was being pedantic why did you say ‘No’ when you seem to agree with me!!!

Haha check out your “that”

BlueBelle

To my ears the title should be what words annoy you when said wrongly not what words annoy you when said wrong
Now maybe that s being pedantic 🤣

It is but I have to agree, thank you, I wasn’t brave enough!