Words, Phrases, and Misspellings We Hate

[Al'Kelhar]

...For all intensive purposes". I don't know why the fact that it makes no sense doesn't tip people off that they're using this incorrectly. The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".

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There's probably a lot more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

How about "commonal garden" for "common or garden" or "common, garden-variety..."? Again, the fact that "commonal" is not even a word doesn't seem to figure in people's use of the phrase.

Cheers, Al'Kelhar

 

[Savage Wombat]

How about "commonal garden" for "common or garden" or "common, garden-variety..."? Again, the fact that "commonal" is not even a word doesn't seem to figure in people's use of the phrase.

Maybe someone doesn't know how to pronounce "communal"? I don't know, I don't hear people use "garden-variety" much anymore around here.

 

[corwyn77]

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned:

Apostrophes used to "pluralize" words.

Not wrong, so much, as just bugs me:

Going forward. It's freaking everywhere.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned:

Apostrophes used to "pluralize" words. (snip)

I think it was the first thing I mentioned.

 

[lutecius]

Forte' pronounced "For-tay". Wrong. "Fort".
Touche' is also "Toush", not "Too-shay".
Yeah, just about any time some pompous twit is trying to show off, but mispronouncing a foreign word is grating.

erm, no.

Forte (no accent) is Italian and pronounced "for-tay".

Touché (acute accent) is French and pronounced "too-shay (touche, pronounced "toosh", also exists but not in the same context).

 

[Baron Greystone]

Like this?

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That is so cool!!!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

At the end of the day, I'm getting tired of "at the end of the day."


...Like, totally.

 

[sabrinathecat]

I think the worst thing I've seen on TV (aside from The Doctor saying "snuck") was the Queen of England running down the beach to (Sir) Francis Drake calling out "Is it Him?" AAAARRRRRrrrgh. "Is it HE." Subjective case plus linking verb! The Queen of Bloody England would have had that drummed into her head since childhood.
"It's him", "It's her", and "It's them" are all wrong.

 

[MarkB]

I receive e-mail bulletins from Sky about upcoming TV programmes. The most recent one included an ad for The Face, emblazoned with the question "Who's Team Are You On?"

I notice that when I view it today with the content re-downloaded, it's been corrected. Someone caught the error, at least.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Sign outside a private school: "Whom do you want teaching your child?" How about someone that understands basic grammar?

By the same token, while I like the thought behind it, the paw-shaped decals on the backs of cars with "Who rescued who?" does bug me.