Redditor's share they're list of most annoying grammatical error's

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i see what you did there doctor who GIF

hated it damon wayans GIF

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Their they’re, yule bee awl write.

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Moreso. It’s two words.

Flout/flaunt. They are not the same.

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I also see what you did they are.

monste’r

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ugh…all time number one on my list: lose vs loose.

Makes my skin crawl every time.

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It’s not too much of a stretch to say that I hate the idiotic insertion of ‘of’ into places it has no business being. Is it too big a thing to ask people to stop saying ‘too big OF a thing’?

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“Defiantly” when they mean “definitely.”

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Obligatory:

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TBF, that’s a common spellcheck correction, at least when I haven’t spelled “definitely” correctly.

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Ah, quit whining, looser.

/s (you didn’t knead that, I know).

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Defiantly knot

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Excrement! That maid me chukkle!

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I know this is common/acceptable usage in many regions, but hearing “embarrassed of [someone]” always bothers me. I immediately wonder what happened to saying “embarrassed by.” This is used in popular shows so often, it makes me cringe. The line “Are you embarrassed of me?” makes me wish for the other character to reply, “No, I’m embarrassed by or for you. Never of you.”

I’m also still hoping to see “being that” vs. “since” make it onto one of these lists. :crossed_fingers:t4:

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“Quotation marks”.

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Free reign

Begs the question

(Yes yes prescriptivism blah blah blah. I teach introduction to proofs classes and have need of the “begging the question” concept. It’s not like anyone uses “begs the” in any other similar way to the way people misuse it to mean, “prompts the question”.)

Seems like I should drop this hear:

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I was never good at spelling or grammar, but I was good at math so I became an engineer.

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I think this could be useful here:

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What a breech of the peas!

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My Sophomore year of HS my English teacher spent the whole hour of the first day going over A LOT.

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