Comments on: Language pet peeves – do you have any? Boy, do I ever!

By: Mark Pennington

Mark Pennington — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

Think you've heard 'em all? Check out these Top 40 Vocabulary Pet Peeves, but warning… you may cringe on a few that you have misused.

By: Alex Katehakis

Alex Katehakis — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

Okay, here it goes: I can’t abide the phrase “these ones,” talk about nails on a chalkboard! I have never been able to find anyone who can tell me if this is indeed an accurate phrase, so I’m counting on Midge for the answer. It seems redundant because “these” and “ones” are both plural – call me crazy. I never heard this phrase until I moved to California and have come to believe that it’s a regionalism. I EVEN hear news anchor’s use it on the local stations.

My next pet peeve is when the word regime is used when clearly the topic of regimen is being discussed. For example, I hear women talk about their beauty or exercise regime’s as if Hitler is in the bathroom examining their facial washing ritual or Sadam Hussien is forcing them to do jumping jacks!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

Lay/Lie Argh! We do NOT “lay out in the sun.” LAY is to put or place. LIE is to rest or recline.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

I grit my teeth every time I hear someone – usually a 20-something – say “me and….” or, “her and me”. Even college grads talk this way! Didn’t any teacher (or parent) correct these kids in high school or college?

By: Erin Merryn

Erin Merryn — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

Lisa do you mean “him” and not “them” unless of course you have two or more husbands and I am pretty sure that is illegal in the states.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

You’re a good wife, Lisa. And I’m guessing you’d prefer: “On to the media???”

By: LisaMM

LisaMM — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

One more- I hate when people say “supposively” when they mean “supposedly”. My husband did this not 30 seconds ago. I didn’t correct them though, since I’m his wife and not his teacher!

By: LisaMM

LisaMM — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

I hate the non-word irregardless. The word is REGARDLESS. Even though irregardless can be found in the dictionary, it is considered non-standard and shouldn’t be used. It contains a double negative, ir and less. Regardless means without regard, so irregardless would mean NOT without regard, but that’s not how it’s used. Anyway, it just annoys me. Someone in my life uses it all the time, incorrectly, and it drives me nuts.

Oh, and you have a typo in this post, Kim! If the post was about another subject, I’d never bring it up! A few paragraphs in you have this sentence: “Onto to the malaise of the media.” Ooops.

By: David Rhodes

David Rhodes — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

Well, let’s just say that you were a well educated single guy looking for, among other characteristics, a strong self reliant woman. You are searching through the miasma of an online dating site. Eureka! There she is! “I am an independant woman.” Swell. Excuse me! As “google” states: “did you mean INDEPENDENT?” Please be independent and your own person, but at least show me that you can use spellcheck.
Hey, Kim, you axed, er, asked….

By: Chrisotpher Hopkins

Chrisotpher Hopkins — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000

First I dislike intensely when someone calls and does not announce him or herself first before asking if I’m there.

I prefer “This is he/she.” And “To whom am I speaking?” It is powerful, and puts you square in the drivers seat.

I am irritated by hearing an upward inflection in a sentence that is a statement.

So Jim and I were going for a walk? And later we were thinking we should stop in for a soda? And…

And finally…I’m fatigued from hearing “my bad” and “I know, right?” Not darling at all.