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

Bowlfuls instead of bowlsful. The plural is in the bowls.

Affect and effect. Loose instead of lose.

All of the above and “whether” and “weather” (I’ve seen wether used for both as well).

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

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 🤣

No, that’s being pedantic, BB 😉

Jewlery instead of jewellery. Makes me want to scream.

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

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

Loose instead of lose gets my goat.

Epicentre - it means the point on the surface of the earth directly above an earthquake and is not a clever way of saying the middle of something. It's obviously trendy just now as some people think it makes them sound more intelligent!

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!

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”

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.

Draws instead of drawers.

Nannee49

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

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

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.

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

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

Fewer v less. Even newsreaders get it wrong.

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?

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.

grannyjan2

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

You're correct.

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

CrazyUSA

For example your instead of you're.

Using the word
Wrong
instead of
Wrongly
In the OP