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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Am I the only one with this pet peeve? We all make mistakes with grammar and spelling from time to time, but this one is like scratching on a chalkboard to me. I think some people think it's cute. I don't think illiteracy is cute.
To is used with verbs. For example, "I want to eat the whole apple pie." It is a preposition, like "for" and "towards". ie: "Take it to the house."
Too is an adverb, like "in excess" or "overly". ie: "I'm too heavy!" Too also means "as well". ie: "I'm happy too!"
Two = 2
I feel better now that I've gotten this off my chest! Now I can look forward to going outside so I can fill the water trough and throw two bales out for my horses too.....in -30 degrees.
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Location: South Georgia | I am an English teacher, so I can relate to your frustrations. I have also been seeing people mess up SALE and SELL lately. You do not have a "Horse for SELL!" You have a "Horse for SALE!" |
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | Those bug me TOO... The way I remembered the too in school was the extra "o" meant also, extra, in addition.
What gets me is when I see something advertised for sell, because they need to sale it bad. UGH.
Edited by shellyh1971 2013-12-05 8:23 AM
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Location: Midwest | horsegirl - 2013-12-05 8:17 AM I am an English teacher, so I can relate to your frustrations. I have also been seeing people mess up SALE and SELL lately. You do not have a "Horse for SELL!" You have a "Horse for SALE!"
this x10,000
or they're, their, and there
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Location: Alberta | Also....their, there, they're OR where, were, wear....drives me crazy!!!
I saw two signs on the highway a couple weeks ago...
"HEY FOR SALE"
"PHAIRY TALES" - this was on a community bulletin board!!!??
Edited by dream_chaser 2013-12-05 8:30 AM
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Honestly, I think some people think it's cute. Others just do it to be irritating on purpose. |
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea. |
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| So, does it bother you when someone has a Philly for sale?? I'm not talking about a sandwich either!
It also bothers me when people don't use "a" and "an" correctly. A ill horse...an ill horse. "An" is used before words that start with vowels!!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I saw a Quarts saddle for sell on Craigslist a few weeks ago,  |
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Location: South Central Florida | I two have a horse for sell. . . |
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| HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 9:04 AM Am I the only one with this pet peeve? We all make mistakes with grammar and spelling from time to time, but this one is like scratching on a chalkboard to me. I think some people think it's cute. I don't think illiteracy is cute.
To is used with verbs. For example, "I want to eat the whole apple pie." It is a preposition, like "for" and "towards". ie: "Take it to the house."
Too is an adverb, like "in excess" or "overly". ie: "I'm too heavy!" Too also means "as well". ie: "I'm happy too!"
Two = 2
I feel better now that I've gotten this off my chest! Now I can look forward to going outside so I can fill the water trough and throw two bales out for my horses too.....in -30 degrees. In response to your post: -30 degrees is too cold to be going outside! If I were you, I would have to move somewhere warmer so that I could enjoy my two horses everyday of the year. Perhaps you would be interested in moving to Florida, our temps are supposed to go up to 85 degrees today! Unless, of course, that is too warm for your liking! I happen to think it's just too gorgeous outside not to ride two horses today!
Seriously, I hate the mistakes made not just with the above words but also...there/their/they're etc.
Edited by runs4fun 2013-12-05 9:02 AM
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| I'll add "quiet and quite" to the list. I'm seeing lots of horse ads that indicate horse is "quite in the alley". Doesn't that just mean he's near or almost to the alley?
Also the improper use of "add and ad". If you are advertising a horse for sale, it's an "ad", not "add".
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Honestly, when I was in the 3rd grade, if I repeatedly made these kinds of mistakes, the teacher would first take me aside and set things straight. If it continued, then she would use me as a "teaching example" in front of the class. If that didn't work, I would have to stay after school and she would work with me one-on-one until I got it right. There was no acceptable excuse for sounding like a moron back in those days. |
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| Speaking of pet peeves....why, oh WHY, do some people insist on jogging or riding a bike on the road when the sidewalk is 15 feet away?  |
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Location: Never in one place long | Yep, drives me crazy TOO! I will actually in a light hearted way correct people on fb if I feel they won't get too upset! I feel I'm doing them a favor from looking like an idiot!
A few other words I have been seeing misspelled lately are....
Since spelled sense!
moot spelled mute!
A lot spelled alot!
Drives me crazy!
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| Nazis!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha ha, I'm just as tyrannical, Facebook makes me crazy. Memes that have incorrect spelling and awful grammar make my brain go fuzzy! |
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| Advise used instead of Advice - I see this here all the time! Advice is given. The act of giving advice is called advising (to advise)... |
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| shellyh1971 - 2013-12-05 6:39 AM
A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea.
And I saw a piece on the news this morning that "fast food" workers are complaining about minimum wages - they want $15 per hour. WTF? If you have minimal skills, minimal education, and minimal production for a minimal job (not saying everyone is like this) then why should you expect to make $15 an hour? Some things I just don't understand. |
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Location: Never in one place long | brlraceaddict - 2013-12-05 11:20 AM
shellyh1971 - 2013-12-05 6:39 AM
A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea.
And I saw a piece on the news this morning that "fast food" workers are complaining about minimum wages - they want $15 per hour. WTF? If you have minimal skills, minimal education, and minimal production for a minimal job (not saying everyone is like this ) then why should you expect to make $15 an hour? Some things I just don't understand.
That's another one I've been seeing ALL THE TIME.... are is not OUR!! Drives me crazy! |
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| I've even seen "wants and once" used incorrectly - by a businessman!
Wants we get started the job should take about 2 weeks. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | KTEE - 2013-12-05 11:48 AM I've even seen "wants and once" used incorrectly - by a businessman! Wants we get started the job should take about 2 weeks.
I bet some of those mistakes were either made by transcriptionists or something like "Dragon". Don't you suppose? |
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Location: Phoenix | New one I've seen lately: an instead of and. And it's NOT a typo or forgotten.
Really?!?! |
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Miss Laundry Misshap
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| hammer_time - 2013-12-05 12:08 PM New one I've seen lately: an instead of and. And it's NOT a typo or forgotten.
Really?!?!
I've seen some and put in for an. I did it the other day, but was too lazy to go back and fix it. It was on my phone, so I don't know if it was autocorrect or not. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I think the cyber age, with email, instant messaging, and texting, has done a lot to blunt basic spelling and grammar skills.
I think people who can communicate with precision and correctness are impressive. I usually go out of my way to avoid txt slang, abbreviations, and shortcuts. Some of the txt lingo is more of a reflex.....like "LOL" Really, Jack? You really were laughing out loud? Or.....ROTFLMAO. I doubt it. |
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Location: Okemah,OK | Nateracer - 2013-12-05 8:49 AM
So, does it bother you when someone has a Philly for sale?? I'm not talking about a sandwich either!
It also bothers me when people don't use "a" and "an" correctly. A ill horse...an ill horse. "An" is used before words that start with vowels!!
Lol I do have a mare named Philly but it's on purpose! Her uncle is my yellow horse Cheese and so she got named after Philadelphia Cream Cheese. But don't worry, she won't be for sale. |
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| TELL ALL OF THAT TO AUTO CORRECT AND SPELL CHECK THAT ARE HIDING ON YOUR COMPUTER AND SITES YOU VISIT ... LIKE BHW........ ...
COMMON CORE DELETING CURSIVE WRITING ...
Please tell me what the hell this palather sez from COMMON CORE ADVOCATES ....>>>
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy
NO MORE CURSIVE OR PENMANSHIP CLASSES ....
Can you believe CALIFORNIA wants to keep CURSIVE AND MEMORIZING THE MULTIPLICATION TABLES???
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/common-core-cursive-penmanshi...
GUESS THE NEXT STEP IS FOR EVERYONE TO LEARN ARABIC ....
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 10:12 AM Honestly, when I was in the 3rd grade, if I repeatedly made these kinds of mistakes, the teacher would first take me aside and set things straight. If it continued, then she would use me as a "teaching example" in front of the class. If that didn't work, I would have to stay after school and she would work with me one-on-one until I got it right. There was no acceptable excuse for sounding like a moron back in those days.
That was done with me as well, I know how to spell, and am pretty good at it when I slow down and look at what I wrote. I hate seeing misspelled words, especially on as advertisement, or banner.
A battle I have gone through with my daughter is the schools lack of concern for proper spelling. She is very dyslexic, and I have been dealing with the school system for several years. When It first became clearly obvious was when she was in 4th grade, and just couldnt spell on paper. She could spell the words forward and backwards when I called them out to her, but on paper, no way. The responses I got by several that were involved in education, was "dont worry about it because after next year, she wont really have to write much, and will be able to use spell check." Seriously, thats what I was told. I fought with the school, until I eventually won, and have her getting her the help she needs, even now. She is in 11th grade, and is still classified as 504C. She gets the extra help she needs in learning how to properly spell, and use words in the right context. She does not get graded on a curve, she still has to do everything the rest of her classmates do, but she has a specialist that she sees for extra help. This is the 1st year that has really made a difference in her ability. I think she is finally being taught the correct way after all this time. |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Today, i noticed an ad that read, "are lost is you're gain." |
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| The 'sale' and 'sell' gets me every time. As well as the others mentioned on here. I try not to get crazy on my hubby but he uses words incorrectly and it drives me crazy. Yet he is a VERY smart man when it comes to business.
One I haven't seen here yet is whelps for welts. You whelp puppies, biting insects and whips leave welts. |
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| How about THAN and THEN!!! That one annoys me, too.... |
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| It is OUT of a mare and BY a stallion - that is my pet peeve when these are confused. Gosh I am glad we all got these out today. The world can move forward now.
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Location: oklahoma | Confirmation and conformation .
Speaking of fb flubs, does anyone actually laugh like this? 'bahahahaha'.
I have a couple of pages listing my pet peeves but I won't bore anyone. |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | The 14 year old that rides with me calls me a spelling and grammar nazi. I am not really but to her I am. She texted me one day and spelled out "dunn" instead of "done." I corrected her and she still did it. She got into the truck with me that night and we had a spelling lesson. She tried to tell me she was abbreviating!!!! I told her that was not abbreviating.
We have days where we are talking and it astounds me how much she doesn't know. She is 14 and in high school!!!! Simple grammar and spelling you should know!!! She may have a serious dislike for me making her do things correctly but I hope she will appreciate me when she gets into college and then when she needs to get a real job.
Doesn't help her that I write thesis papers for a living. |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere | HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 12:18 PM I think the cyber age, with email, instant messaging, and texting, has done a lot to blunt basic spelling and grammar skills.
I think people who can communicate with precision and correctness are impressive. I usually go out of my way to avoid txt slang, abbreviations, and shortcuts. Some of the txt lingo is more of a reflex.....like "LOL" Really, Jack? You really were laughing out loud? Or.....ROTFLMAO. I doubt it.
What does this mean? I honestly do not know.... |
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| Your/you're. You're means you are. Your shows possession.
People who have been severely burned receive skin grafts-not graphs! People with blocked arteries undergo a bypass graft-not graph! I once took a CPR class and the teacher had a chart describing a coronary bypass graph! |
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| nmeastplains - 2013-12-05 5:34 PM HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 12:18 PM I think the cyber age, with email, instant messaging, and texting, has done a lot to blunt basic spelling and grammar skills.
I think people who can communicate with precision and correctness are impressive. I usually go out of my way to avoid txt slang, abbreviations, and shortcuts. Some of the txt lingo is more of a reflex.....like "LOL" Really, Jack? You really were laughing out loud? Or.....ROTFLMAO. I doubt it. What does this mean? I honestly do not know....
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A$$ Off. |
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Location: Phoenix | CurlyQ - 2013-12-05 2:23 PM Confirmation and conformation .
Speaking of fb flubs, does anyone actually laugh like this? 'bahahahaha'.
I have a couple of pages listing my pet peeves but I won't bore anyone.
That is how I write out my teasing, taunting, or sarcastic laugh. Online. Lol. I think LOL is more of an emoticon of sorts rather than an acronym for a verb. |
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| The use of was/were and seen/saw are the ones that bother me most.
We were there......... not We was there. I have seen him........not I seen him....I saw him.
Heck parents are complaining there children are stressed from having to learn math facts. I guess they are ok with their children having to stop and count on their fingers for everything.
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| This drives me crazy!!! I hate it when someone uses the wrong spelling of a word!!!
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | "That don't make no difference nohow"
WTH does this mean???? I think it's supposed to be translated into "It doesn't matter anyway", but doesn't it actually mean "it does make a difference"? I hate double negatives, but so did my ex wife, so I used to use them just to pis$ her off.
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Location: Texas | HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 6:23 PM "That don't make no difference nohow"
WTH does this mean???? I think it's supposed to be translated into "It doesn't matter anyway", but doesn't it actually mean "it does make a difference"? I hate double negatives, but so did my ex wife, so I used to use them just to pis$ her off.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 6:23 PM "That don't make no difference nohow"
WTH does this mean???? I think it's supposed to be translated into "It doesn't matter anyway", but doesn't it actually mean "it does make a difference"? I hate double negatives, but so did my ex wife, so I used to use them just to pis$ her off.
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| sodapop - 2013-12-05 6:05 PM The use of was/were and seen/saw are the ones that bother me most.
We were there......... not We was there. I have seen him........not I seen him....I saw him.
Heck parents are complaining there children are stressed from having to learn math facts. I guess they are ok with their children having to stop and count on their fingers for everything.
OH MY GOSH, THANK YOU....I think that one is by far the most annoying grammar mistake EVER!!!
"I seen that!" 
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Location: The South | It's bad enough seeing these annoying flubs in writing, but how would you like to work with someone that constantly speaks improperly?!? I swear some days my head almost pops off. She's the loudest, most obnoxious woman I've ever met. She'll tell patients that "this bottle ain't got no refills on it" and I want to scream. Or another popular phrase with her is "ain't got none".
Crap now my blood pressure is up just thinking about it.
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To versus too versus two......pet peeves!