Most annoying misuse of words or sayings?

Question

Personally, I get annoyed the misuse of "your/you're", "they're/there" and the saying "I couldn't care less" which a lot of people say "I could care less" instead and gives it the opposite meaning of what they meant to say.

Answer 1

When people use double negatives. Like " I dont have none"
Since double negatives turn the statement into a positive that actually means "I do have some"
Or when they say he/she/it was full of "piss and vinegar"
when it was originally "vim and vigor"
or when people say seerup for syrup
or srimp for shrimp
or spell sale sell or sail

Answer 2

As soon as I read the question I thought of the same examples you already wrote. Let's see... I HATE when people say "overexaggerate." It's redundant and it's not a word. I also get annoyed when people say "irregardless," but someone else already said that. I almost forgot to mention that everyone in one of my classes claims that "skinneded" is a word, as in "I skinneded my knee."

Also, the other day my friend pronounced "unity" as "unighty." lol. English is her second language though so it is excusable.

Answer 3

Actually, that is the way our language evolved over time, it is called arbitariness. Maybe, I could hold up a pen, and called it a chair. The English language may forever be changing and increasing. That is the way "cyberspace" and "email (electionic mail)" came about. You must not look down on some word. Maybe, they may become the language of the future.

Answer 4

My favorite is the use of the word "tenant" instead of "tenet". As in "This is one of the tenants of our company." Yes, a former CEO actually had it up on a big screen for all to see - and others started to use it, not realizing what they were actually saying.

Answer 5

To "beg the question" means to form a question in a way that is meant to elicit a certain answer. It is used incorrectly all the time now to mean provoking one to ask the question.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

At the Olympics: "he/she hopes to medal". What the freak does that mean?
People who say "haich" instead of "aich" for the letter "h"
An American one I don't get: "I'll write you". Write me? Isn't it "I'll write TO you?"
Misuse of apostrophes drives me nut's. (hee hee hee)
The way Australians shorten everything - "brekky" for breakfast, "Brissie" for Brisbane, "chook" for chicken.
Putting "k" on words ending in "g" - "anythink", "somethink".
And of course the "they're/there/their" trilogy.....

(doing the spell check on this was a prolonged affair!!!!)

Answer 8

Anything uttered by female FOX news anchors. Also 'impact' used as a transitive verb. And, 'If only he would have told me' instead of 'he had told' but then I 'm British and a bit pedantic...

Answer 9

The English language really sucks.

Answer 10

Irregardless.

Although Bush's pronounciation of the word "Nuclear" ALWAYS gets under my skin.