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Inspired by the tangent I went off into in the thread discussing words that gross you out, I decided to make one for the words that, when they're spelt or pronounced wrong, really annoy you.
I want to first of all say that yes, grammar nazi's are annoying af and this isn't an English test, so don't worry about it, but at the same time I believe everybody has at least one thing like this that bugs them and this is the place to let your inner grammar nazi out.
I suppose that we can include differences between your version of a language (for example if there's a word which is spelt differently in American and British English) but only if you're not totally rude about it because of course those aren't wrong, however they can be annoying to read when it goes against the grain of what you know. (I'm aware even by writing the word 'spelt' instead of 'spelled' some people may very well be angry already).
Also btw I don't think this has to be like a super serious lets sit down and get angry because someone doesn't like the way you say something thing. This is nothing personal it's just a place to get a bit ranty and chill ok.
Now, some of these I said in the other thread but if they really annoy me I'm gonna include them again.
PRONUNCIATIONS:
I want to first of all say that yes, grammar nazi's are annoying af and this isn't an English test, so don't worry about it, but at the same time I believe everybody has at least one thing like this that bugs them and this is the place to let your inner grammar nazi out.
I suppose that we can include differences between your version of a language (for example if there's a word which is spelt differently in American and British English) but only if you're not totally rude about it because of course those aren't wrong, however they can be annoying to read when it goes against the grain of what you know. (I'm aware even by writing the word 'spelt' instead of 'spelled' some people may very well be angry already).
Also btw I don't think this has to be like a super serious lets sit down and get angry because someone doesn't like the way you say something thing. This is nothing personal it's just a place to get a bit ranty and chill ok.
Now, some of these I said in the other thread but if they really annoy me I'm gonna include them again.
PRONUNCIATIONS:
- Westminster. I don't know why, but growing up in London, a lot of not even just tourists but a lot of people in general say Westmin-i-ster instead of Westminster. There is no second 'I' in Westminster. I don't know why people have so much trouble pronouncing 'minster' by itself and have to add an extra syllable. The fact they mention Westminster on the news everyday so you literally hear it pronounced correctly thousands of times, why can't people get it right?
- Submarine. I remember the days where I was unaware that people can't say this word properly, but then in primary school we used to sing 'Yellow Submarine' by the Beatles and of course a lot of the people would sing 'SUMbarine' idk why. I mean I'm sure 90% of my primary school peers were not dyslexic just saying.
- Your/you're Did people never watch Friends? "Y O U R means YOUR, Y O U APOSTROPHE R E MEANS YOU ARE!!!" idk if people slept through like year 1 literacy lessons but I'm p sure we were all at least taught the basics of what an apostrophe is at some point
- To/too. The easiest way to remember which one to use is that 'too' has too many o's so you'd use it in the context of 'too many' too. SEE. TOO. It's not hard guys.
- Definitely/defiantly. I've Grammar Gestapoed people for this one and they're like 'but spellcheck says defiantly is right'. Yes because defiantly is a word. IT JUST ISN'T THE RIGHT ONE.
- Their/they're/there Same thing as the you/you're one except I get that there/their is more confusing but only if you were taught to read and write by a monkey