<p>People who want to go “lay” out in the sun. Makes me scream.</p>
<p>Just a few: grammer, infer versus imply, comprised of, impact as a verb. However, the single most annoying item is when smart people try to sound smarter by using amphitheater, but pronounce it as AMPItheater. I guess they believe the two “H” must eliminate each other like negatives in an equation. </p>
<p>I also hate IM phonetic spelling such how ru or ne1. I have replied to a message that contains such asinine shortcuts! 
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<p>PS That said I have a horrible habit to forget words in online posts. I could blame a sticky keyboard, but it happens when I forget that I think faster than I can type.</p>
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I think we debated that very one, a while back :)</p>
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I’m not familiar with that one, but it’s nowhere near as annoying as treating “historian” as if it had an unaspirated “h” and using “an” before it instead of “a.” If you want to goad me to violence, that’s how to do it.</p>
<p>My personal favorite. Compound subjective and objective pronouns. “His brothers and him are going to the concert.” “They bought the tickets from Jack and I.” I’ll give you $5,000 to use the word, “me!”</p>
<p>1) How are you? “I’m good” 2) I fell “on accident” 3) dropping g’s…laughin, sleepin, eatin…what’s with all that??</p>
<p>We were driving around in central Maine last week, marveling at a “classic rock” radio station that seemed to have mandatory Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Croce every hour. But then we were struck by the singular stupidity of this line from Paul McCartney and Wings:
“But in this ever changing world in which we live in…”
My husband stabbed wildly at the radio buttons muttering: I can handle Gordon Lightfoot every hour, but this is too much. No one who writes lines like that could ever get a job if he weren’t a Beatle.</p>
<p>“I graduated high school”…yea, right.</p>
<p>I think I found out that it is actually acceptable, but to say “I graduated high school” rather than “I graduated from high school” goes against the rules of grammar I learned. Anybody know why the first version is acceptable?</p>
<p>Alumother - would you please refresh my memory re lay/lie?</p>
<p>driver: I always thought it was “…in which we’re living”. At least I hope it is, because the other option scares me.</p>
<p>People pretend the original lyrics by the Wings were:</p>
<p>“But if this ever changing world
in which we live in
makes you Give in and cry…
Say Live and Let Die.<br>
Live and Let Die.”</p>
<p>Boy, do I feel at home on this thread! Along with all mentioned above, I’d add a couple that seriously get me riled.</p>
<p>Above everything else, the seemingly complete inability of television/radio announcers to use the correct pronoun in a list. It’s almost as if they make an effort to use the wrong case, constantly choosing the incorrect word between I/me, she/her, he/him in even the most obvious statements. I have noticed it is starting to appear in print as well, and I just cannot for the life of me understand or tolerate this.</p>
<p>The second is the misuse of “less” vs. “fewer.” It just makes me crazy! Sometimes it seems to me that no one even knows what “fewer” means anymore. Less cars, less cows, less books–who cares?</p>
<p>Current “pop” words such as “passed” in place of passed away or died.<br>
I want to ask - passed what? GO? collected $200? passed a kidney stone? passed out? passed AP chemistry?
Also “went missing” drives me crazy!</p>
<p>You lie in the sun. You lay down your arms. Lay down your arms is transitive. You only use the word lay for yourself if you are saying, as I did as a small child, Now I lay me down to sleep.</p>
<p>I am glad you people are not, Like, talking about me because I, Like, always make it a point to write using, Like, grammer and stuff. You know? Like. You know, what I am, Like, saying?</p>
<p>How about “When you are done speaking”…drives me out of my mind!</p>
<p>georgiamom: That, and the past/passed errors. “I was away this passed weekend because my uncle past away.” Eek.</p>
<p>Georgiamom - I agree with you on the “went missing - go missing”. How can someone “go missing”? If they are going - which I believe is an active verb - then they know where they are so they can’t be missing.</p>
<p>This one is even better: “He was found missing.”</p>
<p>Heighth for height</p>