This is question to all spelling and grammar nazis on this site:
What spelling and grammatical errors really make your skin crawl.

I'm normally pretty laid back about this sort of thing, but when I see "a lot" spelled as one word, it drives me insane. I know it's a common mistake, and shouldn't seem that big a deal, but I have had teachers drive this correction into me like a stake to the brain, and now I can't stand to see it happen.

the ones so nice you had to do it twice :)

truthfully, I get a kick when people use the word "Sojourn" incorrectly, which is usually every time it's used.

People (even intelligent people) seem to think it means the same thing as journey, and use the two words almost interchangeably.. I hear things in games like "Out on a valiant sojourn" and I laugh.

"Your" instead of "You're". That one drives me insane.

However, it can make some classic quotes:

"Your an idiot."
Which leads to;
"It's 'you're', are you so sure about that statement again?"

Ice Storm:
"Your" instead of "You're". That one drives me insane.

However, it can make some classic quotes:

"Your an idiot."
Which leads to;
"It's 'you're', are you so sure about that statement again?"

that reminds me of another thing.. Patronizing.. it has a short a sound.. like apple, not a long a sound like aim..

Mines pretty simple... when people spell 'grammar' as 'grammer'. It's funnier when they try and prove you wrong about something and then cite it as 'grammer'.

Then and than. So people just don't get it.

Wow, I feel like I'm back in grade 2 again learning all those tricky word- you're, they're, etc.

Jimmyjames:
Anyone that doesn't know THEIR/THEY'RE/THERE. I see this ALL THE TIME.

It's so simple:
THEY'RE = THEY ARE
THEIR= Possessive pronoun
THERE= Adverb

It's 6th grade english.

Or, test yourself and learn:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/its_there_quiz.htm

That one can drive me insane, especially since a girl in my English class cannot understand it after constant explaining which drives me insane. I am a grammar nazi myself so it is a benefit when talking to 4chaners.

Among those that others have mentioned: "its" and "it's," as well as "are" and "our."

rottenbutter:
This is question to all spelling and grammar nazis on this site:
What spelling and grammatical errors really make your skin crawl.

I'm normally pretty laid back about this sort of thing, but when I see "a lot" spelled as one word, it drives me insane. I know it's a common mistake, and shouldn't seem that big a deal, but I have had teachers drive this correction into me like a steak to the brain, and now I can't stand to see it happen.

"Alot" is the American spelling; if you read a lot of American literature, you will find it there...
But what annoys me is when Americans drop 'a's and 'o's e.g. in Paediatrician, Encyclopaedia, Oesophagus, etc..

The two worst things for me are when people say "u" instead of "You" and "i" instead of "I".
You are fucking stupid if you do it, it doesn't matter that it's easier.
IT MAKES YOU LOOK RETARDED.

Lukeje:

rottenbutter:
This is question to all spelling and grammar nazis on this site:
What spelling and grammatical errors really make your skin crawl.

I'm normally pretty laid back about this sort of thing, but when I see "a lot" spelled as one word, it drives me insane. I know it's a common mistake, and shouldn't seem that big a deal, but I have had teachers drive this correction into me like a steak to the brain, and now I can't stand to see it happen.

"Alot" is the American spelling; if you read a lot of American literature, you will find it there...
But what annoys me is when Americans drop 'a's and 'o's e.g. in Paediatrician, Encyclopaedia, Oesophagus, etc..

So that's why firefox is constantly trying to correct me when I type "alot"...
Anyway, do you also say "paedophile"?

'I' before 'E' except after 'C'. I hate it when people forget that.

It's also pretty bad on my part, because it doesn't apply to 'wierd' 'weird'.

I keep doing that.

Simski:

Lukeje:

rottenbutter:
This is question to all spelling and grammar nazis on this site:
What spelling and grammatical errors really make your skin crawl.

I'm normally pretty laid back about this sort of thing, but when I see "a lot" spelled as one word, it drives me insane. I know it's a common mistake, and shouldn't seem that big a deal, but I have had teachers drive this correction into me like a steak to the brain, and now I can't stand to see it happen.

"Alot" is the American spelling; if you read a lot of American literature, you will find it there...
But what annoys me is when Americans drop 'a's and 'o's e.g. in Paediatrician, Encyclopaedia, Oesophagus, etc..

So that's why firefox is constantly trying to correct me when I type "alot"...
Anyway, do you also say "paedophile"?

No, I write it. The pronounciation is exactly the same.

Lord Krunk:
'I' before 'E' except after 'C'. I hate it when people forget that.

It's also pretty bad on my part, because it doesn't apply to 'wierd' 'weird'.

I keep doing that.

It's 'i before e except after c or when sounded as "ee"'.

Lord Krunk:
'I' before 'E' except after 'C'. I hate it when people forget that.

It's also pretty bad on my part, because it doesn't apply to 'wierd' 'weird'.

I keep doing that.

Weird is weird. It's horrible for myself, since I can barely spell as it is, comming across a word like that. For A while spelt it wierd, but it looked so wrong.

PurpleRain:

Lord Krunk:
'I' before 'E' except after 'C'. I hate it when people forget that.

It's also pretty bad on my part, because it doesn't apply to 'wierd' 'weird'.

I keep doing that.

Weird is weird. It's horrible for myself, since I can barely spell as it is, comming across a word like that. For A while spelt it wierd, but it looked so wrong.

Yeah, I would normally overlook this (apparent) misspelling. However, evil red squiggles continue to prevent me from doing so.

He's /= his.

Also sick of ' showing up in places it isn't supposed to.

"Disorientated" disorients me with its superfluous syllable, as does instantaneously, which seems to be a weird crossbreed of instantly and simultaneously.

Rouge instead of rogue.

If you mistype it one time, okay, but some people keep saying it.

Along with the obvious there/their/they're; your/you're etc;
spelling 'the' as 'teh' (or even more irritating 'like' as 'liek') just bug the hell out of me... they use the same letters but in the wrong order - just lazy typing.

When people say 'like' all the time or 'got'. You do not need to use 'like' in every sentence and replace 'got' with 'have'.

The most dreaded of utterances, the world lol

Labyrinth:
Here's the list.

Your
You're
Their
There
They're
Poor
Pour
Paw
Colour
Labour
Dialogue
Diarrhoea
Paedophile
...and anything vaguely connected to WebSp33k.

Those in bold are neither incorrect nor grammatical errors. It is only the United States if I recall that does not add a 'u' to various words such as Colour, although I personally never found the point despite being Canadian. As for "Dialogue", that is the correct spelling of the word.

Anyhow on my list would be...

- Rediculous
- Single letters representing a word: u instead of you for example
- Constant incorrect usage of there/they're/their and similar words
- The pronunciation of the word "ask." There is no bloody "x" in that word
- He don't instead of he doesn't/does not
- Ain't

I hate the lack of capitals, that really bugs the hell out of me.

Simski:
The two worst things for me are when people say "u" instead of "You" and "i" instead of "I".
You are fucking stupid if you do it, it doesn't matter that it's easier.
IT MAKES YOU LOOK RETARDED.

Agreed. Definitely. It makes me feel so sad when someone uses 'u' instead of 'you'.

I don't mind if people use things like 'ain't', as long as they're actually using apostrophes.
I hate it when I see someone saying 'Dont do that.'
Also, USE A FULLSTOP AFTER EVERY SENTENCE FOR GOD'S SAKE.
I've never liked it when people don't end an unlisted sentence with a fullstop, it just makes it sound trailed off in the mind.

And this isn't really a grammatical error, but don't end every sentence with an ellipsis. (Or however you spell that word.) It always makes me think you speak like a child molester or a rapist.
It scares me basically, and I lose quite a lot of trust in that person.

This thread sucks, because most of the people have posted grammatical or spelling errors themselves. The cobbler should stick to shoes.

Jonathan Hexley:

And this isn't really a grammatical error, but don't end every sentence with an ellipsis.

Agreed, but what really annoys me is people using random amounts of full stops to make their ellipses. An ellipsis has three 'dots'. No more, no less. Taking up half a line with your dots does not make your writing more suspenseful. Similarly, a dozen exclamation marks at the end of the sentence does not make you sound more surprised than one would have: although whenever I see it, I always imagine an idiot being given a balloon at the zoo for some reason, so maybe it does.

These grammar errors only really bother me, though, when they are committed by someone who really should know better. When I read a local magazine, for example, and the grammar is atrocious; I think someone who has decided to make their living, or even their hobby, writing, should take the effort to learn to do it properly. If it's on a forum, or just a note left for me by a co-worker, I only get annoyed if the mistakes are so profuse as to make it difficult to understand.

The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always
ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a realy sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand each ozer

ZE DREAM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

Labyrinth:
Here's the list.

Colour
Labour
Dialogue
Diarrhoea
Paedophile

My Science teacher got mad at me for spelling like that. He said that's not how things are spelled.

As for errors. Improper punctuation and capitalization, I can't stand it.

I cant stand either when people put a space before any piece of punctuation, or no space afterward. It really shouldn't annoy me as much as it does, but I do get a little annoyed whenever I see it.