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lane one · Junior Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 676

Spelling "ridiculous" "rediculous" (used all the time)

Saying something is "based off" rather than "based on" (just wrong)

Starting a phrase with "In order to..." instead of just "To..." (wordy)

These are my biggest ones, but I could catch up with IV on this thread...

Minutemanfan · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject:

Score the basketball. Evil or Very Mad

jjmc85 · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:25 pm Post subject:

"My zip code is 'oh-two-one-two-five.'" It isn't an oh. It is a zero.

Or when someone says "One hundred and one" instead of "one hundred-one." "And" means the whole number is finished and now I am about to give you the fractional/decimal part of the number.
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philosopher · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject:

This is nit-picking, but it annoys me: "The team won (or lost) 2 games in a row." It takes three of anything to make "a row."

When a sentence is ended with a preposition, I cringe.

The initial post of this thread touched on one more of my pet peeves. "I just want to thank...." The word "just" does not belong in there. Don't tell me what you want to do, just do it. If you want to thank someone, then say "thank you."

Bad grammar has no excuse other than ignorance.

econalum · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:05 am Post subject:

It's as a possessive - it is: its.

"For all intensive purposes" - morphed from - for all intents and purposes.

"like" and 'axe' as discussed above.

Diatribe below:

Employers HATE how lax students are with sentence construction, spelling and grammar, both orally and written. A special peeve of many is how students 'write like they speak', and poorly I might add. So many applicants lose the job through mis-spelling, other typos, and poor grammar.

Colleges are investing far more resources than even 10 years ago in non-credit English and Math courses to simply raise student's levels to college entrant expectations. An enormous failure of families and high schools.

This is a great topic.
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Doc Moonlight · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:29 am Post subject:

Starting a sentence with the phrase "not for nothing"

Saying "expecially" instead of "especially" (frequently heard in the Midwest)

"Massatoosits" (welcome to Texas)

And I'm particularly obsessive about the word "verbiage" which is almost always pronounced "ver-bage" and has come to be a neutral term for a collection of words, when it really means an overabundance of superfluous garbage words. It's sort of like the way redundant went from meaning unnecessary duplication to necessary back-up, as in redundant systems.
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SignMan · Hall of Fame Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 3229

When a game is over and the score is announced...
Team A beats Team B ... (score)...

They beat them; they did not beats them!
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Chris20 · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:15 am Post subject:

R&G · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:29 am Post subject:

Ek-cetera instead of etcetera.

InnervisionsUMASS · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:37 am Post subject:

Anything Jack says.

shovelhd · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:49 am Post subject:

DirSport · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:56 am Post subject:

Would of, could of, should of.

Chris20 · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:10 pm Post subject:

InnervisionsUMASS · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject:

Who was? VOR or ktabz? Clearly it isn't me! Laughing

ktabz16 · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject:

it was me