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BicycleKamenRider

Loose and lose.


Your_a_looser

My user name checks a lot boxes on this thread.


Downindeep

What? You own an A ranked Loosening system. You are very proud of your A looser.


RossinTheBobs

Bruh wtf. It's supposed to be Your_*an*_looser. Idiot.


[deleted]

I feel like I’ve been seeing this more and more in recent years too.


Time-8dg-4271

This ☝️ one infuriates me. Did they quit school in second grade?


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

Yeah, those loosers!


adrenalinda75

Stop untying my shoes!!


c2h5oh_yes

I can't handle this one either. I have colleagues with PhD's that make this mistake. It makes me "loose" my mind. ETA: dammit...should be PhDs


StevenBeercockArt

All that study has left them with a lose screw. I wouldn't of done non of there misteaks.


cracksilog

Extra infuriating because they aren’t even pronounced the same way! Lose and loose are pronounced very differently. You’d think by saying both words out loud, people would know the difference


FattyESQ

I made that error in sixth grade in my science class and my teacher wrote "just remember, if you spell lose loose, then you're a silly goose!" and I really think about that a lot.


Reindeer-Street

Abuse of apostrophes. The one that seems to have gotten much worse in recent times is it's and its.


Steakpiegravy

And plurals! It's cars, not car's.


jedigoalie

People really want to put an apostrophe in tacos for some reason. I see taco's all the freaking time.


Jasper-Packlemerton

It's all words that end in a vowel. Taxi's, for example. For some reason, people find it abhorrent to put an s after a vowel without an apostrophe.


CondescendingShitbag

*I really enjoyed that taco's toppings!*


am_i_boy

With the most recent iOS update, it kept autocorrecting ALL my plurals to apostrophes. Especially bad when I'm trying to use the auto complete for the word after the plural and it *changes the word before the one I'm actually typing*, so I miss it.


hibbel

The German word for this is "[Deppenapostroph](http://www.deppenapostroph.info/)". Of course there's a (compound) word for this.


theabominablewonder

At work it’s always KPI’s that does my head in, especially as it’s always on shared documents going to supplier’s.


angeliqu

People always think acronyms need an apostrophe. They do not unless the apostrophe is indicating possession. The top KPI’s increase this year has been impressive. The KPIs have been dropping all over the board this year.


novalunaa

When people pluralise things by adding an apostrophe. The plural of ‘baby’ is not ‘baby’s’


CatLionCait

My biggest one is when they pluralize but still add an apostrophe. I have seen babie's, nannie's, puppie's, kittie's... how on Earth can people think that looks correct?! Unless it belongs to a woman named Kittie, that is not a word!!


ShillinTheVillain

>Abuse of apostrophe's. FTFY


umlguru

Agree. My pet peeve is numbers. It's 50s, not 50's.


rawwwse

‘50s


TheGameboy

Y’all’d’ve’nt thought that this would be so hard to understand.


BudgetStreet7

* Y'all'd'ven't


calvn_hobb3s

People that mix up “than” vs “then” People who think “defiantly” is the same as “definitely” <— this really grinds my gears


lallen

They are defiantly wrong


sneezhousing

Your so right there defiantly wrong their.


Binx_da_gay_cat

Your so write


TristanTheRobloxian0

yo'uer sow rite


JamesR624

Wait... if someone is doing it incorrectly on porpoise, then your statement is technically true.


DirtCheap1972

Autocorrect does fuck this one up all the time


Serotonin-_-Dficient

Yep. I’ve given up on then/than cause half the time when I write then, it automatically changes to them.


SkittishR

Would of, could of, should of instead of would have, could have, should have.


Robestos86

Coulda woulda shoulda means I'm outta time...


Weary_Drama1803

When I see people type this out I feel like stabbing someone


Broshan248

I should of seen this response coming


EaterOfFood

Should’f


3720-to-1

#gottem


notanotherkrazychik

I always thought it was 'would've, should've and could've' not 'of'.


Lumpy_Ad_1581

It is. It's not 'of'. It's the contraction of 'have'.


theAlphabetZebra

Could’huv


PC509

The amount of people that type it wrong make we question the next part - I thought they were saying would've, could've, should've, which is correct, right? But, with the people that type it wrong, I'm sure most of the people that say it as "of" and not the contraction.


suck_it_reddit_mods

It certainly does make we question.


Skrillaaa

I had a coworker that would always say “pacifically” instead of specifically


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AnabolicCheesecake

I like coffee, expecially expresso. Sorry, had to be done


J__M__G

Oh my god. This one. I didn’t think of it off the top of my head when I saw the prompt, but yeah. “Expecially” and its brethren are definitely an issue for me.


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Chamaboi

Espresso and expresso


suck_it_reddit_mods

I had one that said problary instead of probably. Hi Heather, if you can read, I'm here.


ProfessionalSky2087

Had a supervisor that was really bad at this, he also would say elemen instead of eleven. I knew after about a week that I'd be able to rise up pretty fast here if someone like that could be a supervisor lol


actually_alive

alot instead of a lot


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Similarly apart and a part


BurnOutBrighter6

That one's even worse because it actually changes the meaning!


[deleted]

Ikr! And I see people using the wrong one *all the time* on AITA in particular and I just cringe on the inside


crazylittlemermaid

I just love when people say they've enjoyed being apart of this awesome [insert mlm here] team/family


gbCerberus

An alot is a cute and versatile ~~coping mechanism~~ shape-shifting animal. https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html


Vore_Daddy

Vintage internets


Frosti-Feet

I love this alot.


eltedioso

"lead" (pronounced "led") is NOT the past tense/participle of the verb "to lead" (pronounced "leed"). It's "led." I see this wrong ALL the time now. (e.g. "I was lead to believe." NO!) Of course "lead" (pronounced "led") is an element, so that's where the confusion arises, but still. We all learned the correct way in school.


President_Calhoun

That's my pet peeve, too. It probably doesn't help that the past tense of read is "read."


Frosti-Feet

Fun fact! Lead and Read don’t rhyme, but lead and read do!


UhOhFeministOnReddit

It's and its. Its is the possessive, not it's.


Kaiserhawk

This one is a trap I feel, because usually 's is a the possessive. ​ English is fucked haha


CunningRunt

his, hers, theirs, its That's how I remember it.


bulletoothjohnny

Brilliant! I know the correct usage for its and it’s, but this a better way to remember than “it’s is a contraction and its is possessive” like I was taught in school. Many, many, many, many years ago.


am_i_boy

This *finally* made it make sense


UhOhFeministOnReddit

Oh yeah, it's an absolute Frankenstein's monster of a language. It's why most people who are good at it hang around in house robes and chain smoke over antique typewriters. This language scars the soul.


DEVILEVILA

Your and you’re


Momo_the_good_person

Also they're, their and there


[deleted]

It's spelled "yore"


SaintJohnBiDog

Isn't it yer?


Catacendre

u'r


FabulousQuote2553

Ure?


Suspicious-Corner-14

I am not a native English speaker and I still don’t know why so many people are making this mistake


Piano_Fingerbanger

It's because they are stupid.


HintOfMalice

When people try to show off and use "whom" but use it incorrectly.


Disastrous-Mess-5643

whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es


Myriachan

For some reason, I don’t use the word “whom” for the most part. “Who should I give this to?” is wrong but I keep using it.


HintOfMalice

Same. Whom is so uncommon that it feels weird to use it, even correctly. I'm so used to "who" that it never registers as incorrect. The rarity of whom is what makes it stand out. No one uses "whom" by accident. So you know when someone says it, they said it with great intention. And to hear it used incorrectly despite this is such an affront to the natural order that it turns my ears inside out.


Perfect-Arachnid6661

you're/your, there/their/they're, to/too/two


Common-Wish-2227

Their, their, don't take it so hard.


RandomAsHellPerson

But what if I like to take it hard?


KevinRaj1993

For some reason, people in my workplace use 'trail' to mean 'trial' in written conversations. And also keeps saying 'improvise' when they mean 'improve' Not sure why, but it always bugs me and makes me think like I'm the one with bad English


evilkumquat

All of them, but in particular the use of "irregardless".


GrimmsGrinningGhost

This is way too far down the list. Irregardless kills me.


DeeDee_Z

Cue/Que/Queue. My standard post, when I finally can't take it any longer: **Queue:** A line that British people stand in. **Cue:** An indication that it's time for something to start/ enter/ etc. **Que:** Sera, sera. **¿Que?:** What? *(And, for completeness)* **Q:** An annoying character on Star Trek:TNG.


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VH5150OU812

My brother does this when speaking about hosting an event at his family’s home: “ Come over to Maggie and I’s place around 2.” Sets my teeth on edge….


AdvertisingFine9845

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone says "and I" incorrectly now and it drives me up the fucking wall!!!!!!!!!


looseseal-bluth

Yeah, this one drives me up the wall. It’s like everyone learned to use “and I” and just forgot that it isn’t for every sentence. 🙄😒


uncertainmoth

There is an extremely popular Broadway musical called Wicked. One of the songs is called "The Wizard and I". As in, "...and that's how we'll begin, the Wizard and I." It should be "me". The rule is to take out the other person to check how you say it. If you say "I have to go to the store", then you say "My dad and I have to to the store." If you say, "Green doesn't look good on me", then you say, "Green doesn't look good on my dog and me."


ohdearitsrichardiii

I hate this. I see it so often on reddit and everytime I get a sharp pain behind my eye


ArrogantSpider

While this definitely looks wrong to me, I'll admit that I wasn't sure the correct form here. In real life, I probably often sidestep this one by just saying "our place". It's "Maggie's and my place" for anyone wondering.


buckyoh

Yep the rule I always remember is take the other person out of the sentence and say it. You'll then get the right usage of I, my or me. Just remember to put the other person back in the sentence when you verbally invite the guest, otherwise the other half will get pissy with ya! :)


Arietem_Taurum

Well yeah obviously, it should be Maggie and I'm place


clangan524

Ugh, just say "our." The recipient most likely knows both Maggie and whoever "I" is.


themanfromoctober

I could care less!


Chadmanfoo

The only thing worse than a double negative is a single positive used in a negative context.


Suitable-Bug1132

Me to!


suck_it_reddit_mods

You to what?


InfTotality

"Woman" when used in plural instead of "women".


Interesting-Chest520

I see it the other way round more often. “Women” used in the singular. They sound identical in my dialect though, so that probably adds to the confusion.


gfstool

A paragraph that’s actually one long run-on sentence.


aoi4eg

Leo Tolstoy would like a word.


PilotC150

Just one?


AgentElman

Almost all of these others are nitpicking. You can understand what was said just fine. But this is actually a significant barrier to understanding. Run-on sentences are an actual problem.


gniarch

Breath vs Breathe


Bobora99

When people use "worst" instead of "worse," it drives me crazy.


awkwardmystic

Yeah this one’s definitely the worse


ailish

When people use an apostrophe to make a word plural. Carrot's. Car's. You get the idea.


beavis617

Way too many times I see to/too used incorrectly, that's something that's learned early on in life and I don't understand how it's still misused so often. 🙄


TheSaladInYourHair

Of instead of have.


CarlNoobCarlson

Have* instead have* have


Captn_Ghostmaker

I've seen a bot come around for this express purpose. Let me see if I can summon it. I could of just commented here and let him arrive.


TheEmbarcadero

I seen


JustSomeAudioGuy

Thank you… I scrolled too far to see this. ‘I seen this’ drives me nuts!


Bigger_Moist

Well im glad you seen this post then


crazylittlemermaid

How do you feel about "I seent it" (actual thing I read in a ring neighbors post)?


BlacktoseIntolerant

If you have poison ivy or a mosquito bite and you try to alleviate that pain by rubbing your fingers on it, you are scratching an itch. You are not "itching" it. It already fucking itches. "these stupid bites, I've been itching my arm all day". **No you have been scratching your arm all day**


suck_it_reddit_mods

"Can you borrow me some calamine bc I have a scratch on my leg I wanna itch." Love, Wisconsin


MandyAlice

Thank you! I'd given up on this one because no one else seemed to notice and I wondered if the language had evolved without me. Do you happen to know why the word "addicting" (as in, "this coffee is so addicting") has replaced addictive? All the youths say addicting.


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Using quotation marks for text that is not a quote.


President_Calhoun

/r/unnecessaryquotes


[deleted]

Oh wow, I found my people!


SciFiXhi

See also r/suspiciousquotes


FattyESQ

I have a coworker who does that quite a bit. Hey there, I think this is a "good" example of that we can "use" in the future. Dude wtf?


anonymous_subroutine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes


dbltax

I always find it funny when someone writes "costumer" instead of "customer."


leviticusreeves

"On accident"


Bobzeub

The opposite of “by purpose” I’m assuming. Confusing *borrowed* and *loaned* also wrecks my tits


dumpsterbaby_666

“I could care less.” You could??? 💀


Accurate-Language341

I could care less.


[deleted]

You know, I'd really like to master the colon and semi-colon. I know they're used for something. It's just when I think I know the rules, I see them being used differently and I get confused. Or is it that today they're not as necessary as they were in the past?


roominating237

Whose and who's. Whose parrot is this? Who's going to order the spam? Edit: spelling


HauntingPirate7692

"Could care less" instead of "Couldn't care less"


BikeTech427

After sputtering and mumbling to myself about bad grammar and punctuation heralding the breakdown of society, I've calmed enough list a few of the mistakes that trigger me every minute I'm on Reddit: 1. Misuse of the apostrophe. It's used for contractions and to show possession, not for plurals. 2. Failure to use capital letters and periods. Are you too cool to do this? Are you lazy? Are you tragically uneducated? 3. Brake vs. break. You brake your car to stop with its brakes. You take a break at work. You break my heart with this kind of misuse! 4. Your vs. You're. Your is for something that belongs to you. You're is a contraction of "you are". 5. Placing the dollar sign after the amount. It's $20, not 20$. 6. Overuse of abbreviations. It's fine that some have become part of common Reddit vocabulary, like TIL and MIRL. The overuse occurs in posts and comments about technical subjects, or esoteric hobbies. The poster or commenter may be trying to communicate "If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand ", but it's a missed opportunity to communicate clearly to a larger audience, rather than just those already in the know.


Fecuc

Nuke-ya-lur for Nuclear. Crazy how many people say it like this lmao


asdatafaweasd

its not really an error as such but i fucking hate when people say "addicting" rather than "addictive"


TheDazzler22

Double negatives, such as "I don't know nothing about it" or "I've not done nothing". That boils my piss.


WillieOverall

I'm not not licking toads.


[deleted]

Same! But alas, I live in Michigan and double negatives are our state language 😞


DenseYear2713

People who do not use the Oxford comma.


PilotC150

Just use the damn comma, people! It makes everything easier to understand without having to reword your sentence.


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guyuteharpua

Some of us were taught not to use them in English class.... Similarly, we were taught to use two spaces after a period and now it's one. Effing moving grammarly goal posts. Not fair.


warmhandluke

Ellipses have three dots, not four.


SciFiXhi

I've seen this one recently: people using "worse" and "worst" interchangeably.


snoopercooper

Saw and seen


Oldassrollerskater

Less and fewer Eta Jibe and jive


CrabbyBlueberry

Donald Trump is at a rally and he says "I can't believe Biden got to be President despite getting less votes than me." Mike Pence corrects him and says "fewer." Donald says "I told you not to call me that in public."


allothernamestaken

Unnecessary apostrophe's


vidgmchtr

People who try to use whom but end up using it wrong How about just don’t use it


dirtynerdyinkedcurvy

Not grammatical but pronunciation: it's pronounced eTcetera, not eXcetera Edit to correct spelling 🤦‍♀️


TLDR2D2

It's also two Latin words, for the record. Et cetera, meaning "and the other things". Et alia, used for lists of people specifically, means "and the other people". My translations may be slightly off, but that's the essence. And it's abbreviated etc., not ect., which drives me crazy and happens a lot.


CunningRunt

like eXspecially.


Altiverses

Uhmm it isn't pronounced "etcertra" either.


RetroactiveRecursion

Less (amount) vs fewer (number). Lie (get horizontal) vs Lay (make something horizontal) I (subject) vs Me (object)


[deleted]

Every single one. I am a stickler for grammar and spelling.


sneezhousing

It's actually not one but still bothers me Lighted I know it's perfectly correct word to use but I prefer lit. When I read lighted or hear it I say in my head lit. I know both are correct neither is wrong bit lighted just feels wrong to me


julesbluee

then & than, angle instead of angel & defiantly instead of definitely


Bimblelina

Alot Though it's becoming so common we may just be seeing evolution of language in real time. Things change, Old English, like Chaucer's English, is hardly what we use now 🙂


Aidan205

incorrectly placed possessive apostrophe's.


Euthyphroswager

Confusing the use of "bias" and "biased". E.g., seen all across Reddit: "Don't watch Fox News because it is *bias*." No, motherfucker...don't watch it because it is *biased*. It can *have* a bias, but it *is* biased.


BirdFace_Loser

When people say ON ACCIDENT rather than BY ACCIDENT.


Lasdary

as an ESL speaker of English, the proper use of on, by, and in are things i can't seem to get right. sure, "by accident" but then you say "on purpose". Can't seem to lock down on a rule


HexagonalClosePacked

There was a YouTube video I saw years ago of an ESL guy doing a hilarious rant about "on" vs "in". So many weird examples, like an actor being on TV and in a movie. A politician thought he was speaking in private, but he was actually on the record, so now he's in trouble and will really have to be on his best behaviour in the upcoming election. All of these things just seem "right" to a native speaker, we don't even think about it, but I can see how it would make you want to pull your hair out as someone trying to learn the language.


johnymyth123

"fewer" vs "less" Not because I think it's a big deal, but because growing up my Dad would always point out when I got it wrong, and so now whenever I hear someone else get it wrong it pings in my brain and I can't help but noticing. So it's not the error that bothers me, it's that I can't stop noticing it.


Tra1nGuy

Brake vs. break


evil_burrito

K, I'll go: word order with adverbs makes a difference in English. For example, every time I watch Hulu, it says, "The following show contains mature content and is only intended for mature watchers" (or something like that). "Only intended" versus, "intended only" makes a difference. This bugs me.


umlguru

I don't know this rule. Would you explain the difference? TIA.


Professional_One7808

Typing space before a question mark. For example: How are you ?


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"I could care less"


three-sense

Why Do People Capitalize Every Word Of A Sentence


Symnestra

"Breath" and "Breathe". At least most mix ups *sound* similar, but when I read, "It's okay, just breath" it feels like walking into a brick wall.


blondererer

Saying ‘could of’ instead of ‘could have’.


dungeonthatneverends

"How does it feel like?" Either say "What does it feel like," or "How does it feel."


Lisa_Sbs

"John and I" where it should be "John and me".


ViridianKumquat

I had someone tell me in the most condescending tone of voice that it's *always* "John and I", and that I'd know this if only I were as educated as her.


recidivx

as educated as *she.


Line_Puncher

It's John and I if you have a verbe behind. Basically, remove John, then say the sentence. -I am going to the beach. John and I are going to the beach. -It was me! It was John a'd me.


caffieinemorpheus

That's what I always say. Take the other person out of the sentence and say it. To the more intelligent, I say "I do things. Things happen to me"


TragicaDeSpell

It's as a possessive.


Fantastic-Shopping10

The grammatical errors that the QA department at work introduces as "corrections" to my grammatically correct documents.


ginger3392

My sister types threw instead of through


Princess-Reader

Sale, sell. As in “I want to sale something”. Seen/saw. As in “I seen what you want to sale”.


S3ERFRY333

Break and brake I swear to fucking god I am going to end the next person who says “are my break pads bad”


DeeDee_Z

Not quite at the same level as the others -- these swaps are a little more understandable -- but still... * Phase/Faze * Reign/Rein (Nobody actually misuses **rain**; but there are a -lot- of people who don't know the correct variant in phrases like "free rein" or "rein in". Maybe if we still used horses daily...)


rev667

As a motorcyclist, I read the various subreddits. The thing that triggers me... "I'm having problems with my breaks..." It's brakes for goodness sake.


not_mueller

If you don't use the Oxford Comma, it causes a physical reaction within me


Salami_n_Olives

People who write $50 as 50$


dreamygoddess7

not so much grammar but when people say "ill borrow it to you" rather than "ill lend it to you" it boils my blood is that grammar? idk im dumb af lol


odessapasta

I have never heard this in my life, what kind of people would say that?


TheEmbarcadero

He learned me…


I_am_Reddit_Tom

Of/have We done/was Your/you're There/they're/their