Mine is brought. I hate it when someone says something like. "I went to the store and brought groceries". I say no you bought groceries. Bought past tense of buy. I went to buy groceries. So, once they are paid for they have been bought. Now once you get them home you brought them home. Brought is the past tense of bring.
2006-09-21 04:02:38 · 26 answers · asked by Billy 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
"Realator" I hear people say it instead of 'realtor'.
2006-09-21 04:24:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have to go with Wide Awake on this one.
Some people just can't seem to resist adding an apostrophe before every final "s", regardless of whether or not it's a plural or a possessive. Most frequent seems to be "it's" where "its" should be used.
Unique used to be a good, useful word - one of a kind. Now, seemingly with the biggest impetus coming from advertising, we hear and see "more unique" and "most unique" , and the original word has lost out.
2006-09-21 07:01:12 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, among mine is the word "podium."
A podium is a raised platform that a speaker stands on to speak, like a stage.
A LECTERN is a stand or rostrum that a speaker stands behind when speaking, when s/he often places their notes.
So the next time someone says, "Please address us from behind the podium," make sure you go behind the platform or stage. :o)
Airline personnel at gates are some of the worst offenders here - "will passenger Smith please approach the podium" when there is no platform or stage in sight, just a customer service counter or lectern.
Don't even get me start on "Most Unique" - something is either unique, or it isn't; and people who confuse a possessive and a plural.
Thanks for the opportunity to rant!
2006-09-21 06:36:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My least favorite bad grammar in mass culture is when people misuse the word "myself" becuase they think it makes them sound more educated. For example, "Joe and myself are going out." For some reason, this misuse has grown a lot in the past few years.
My least favorite misunderstood phrase is the use of "for all intensive purposes" instead of the correct "for all intents and purposes."
2006-09-21 07:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jonathon M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate IT'S used instead of ITS. I have even seen ads in glossy magazines where the writers used the wrong one saying "ITS a great buy" instead of "IT'S a great buy." Of course just as many use the opposite wrong one when the other is needed. To me that says either they don't know what they are saying or they assume their audience is too stupid to realize the error.
2006-09-21 04:16:48 · answer #5 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
irregardless
hain't - even worse than ain't
my father in law pronounces Washington as Wushington or Warshington - drives me up a wall!!!!
When some one is only comparing two items - like children - and they say oldest and youngest. It's older and younger. There must be at least three to use - est.
Using your when you're is correct ( Your a nice person)
I know you said one word, but like potato chips, I couldn't stop at just one.
2006-09-21 04:42:56 · answer #6 · answered by oaknut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
innernet.
The is no such thing as the 'innernet', yet it is spoken about in the media all the time, even by folks who know better. There is the Internet, and there are intranets- but no innernet!
at
People are always hanging this word ("at") on the end of sentences where it does not add any meaning or clarity. "Where are my keys at?" means the same as "Where are my keys?"
2006-09-21 04:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by kurtrisser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some reason the word irregardless just rubs me the wrong way. It's a double negative and doesn't sound intelligent in any context.
2006-09-21 04:06:01 · answer #8 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have two. When people say supposably instead of supposedly, and when people use the term 'literally' when they don't mean it. I have a friend who always says "I laughed so hard I literally peed my pants", and then gets upset when I express concern over her seemingly serious lack of bladder control. Unless you did, in fact, pee in your pants, don't use the word 'literally'.
2006-09-21 04:17:01 · answer #9 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When people say "am going out tonight" instead of "i'm going out tonight". Or when people correct you and they're wrong, my boss says things like "the sh*t's hit the frying pan" and says petitions instead of partitions for make shift walls.
2006-09-21 04:05:24 · answer #10 · answered by stomm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is the misuse of the word supposedly. Where I live most people say supposebly and it drives me NUTS!
2006-09-21 04:06:23 · answer #11 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋