Thread: Commonly used bad grammar

I wouldn't call myself a grammar nazi, but there are several commonly misused words that drive me insane. It's funny because there are times when my grammar drives my wife crazy. I'm completely comfortable with my bad grammar though.

heres an example.
"Ekspecially" :especially
I don't think a day goes by that I don't here someone throwing an extra letter into the word especially. What's more, when I've corrected people, they look at me like I'm an idiot.

Another one that I here all the time.
"Foward" :forward
I even here educated people say it. I think this one bothers me so much because without the R your not moving toward the front( or "fore").

Here's one more.
"A scissors" :A pair of scissors
I can overlook a person saying "a scissor", but "a scissors" drives me nuts. I often hear people doing this with pliers too. It's plural because it's one thing that's comprised of two equal main parts. The same goes for glasses or shorts. Would you go shopping for a sunglasses?

I usually try to ignore it because it seems rude to correct strangers. But sometimes I think it may be ruder to let them go on speaking incorrectly.

My wife corrected me at a family function when I said "I ain't got no keys". I shrugged my shoulders.

Guess I ain't got no grammar neither!

Not suggesting this as an appropriate course of action, but rather a simple reassurance that you are not alone.

My grandmother used to correct me all the time when I would use snuck instead of sneaked. Even though snuck is considered the nonstandard past tense of sneak now there are still people that consider it improper. I still use snuck. As the years pass by the crammer changes.

Ok here are a few
1- pacifically instead of specifically
2- incidences instead of incidents
3- supposably instead of supposedly

As well as the could care less one.

Don't forget the biggie-that terrible word, irregardless.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Don't forget the biggie-that terrible word, irregardless.

AAAAAHHHHHHH! One of the worst ones by far.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Don't forget the biggie-that terrible word, irregardless.

I was maybe 18 and had a 'friend' correct me on irregardless. That is not a word he said, and in front of other people. It is regardless. I copped an attitude but of course he was correct. I also don't care for, "ain't got none." If I'm in a playful mood I'll reply, "Well how many do you have ?" Usually provokes a quizzical look, and I have to be careful who I use that on. Discretion being the better part of valor.

IIRC it was in the 1960s that "hopefully" started being used regularly in TV broadcasts and sometimes in newspaper articles. Hopeful is correct, hopefully, like irregardless is not a word, though it may be by now due to practically universal usage.

What annoys me especially are clichés that become ubiquitous. For instance, in the 1980s some politician began saying, "At the end of the day ... &fc." Before I knew it every Tom, Dick and Harry on C-Span, or the nightly news was repeating that ad nauseam.

Another one is heard often on Christian radio ...... "Come alongside." If you will just come alongside ....... us, them, him, her ....... whatever .......... annoys me know end when phrases get picked up and are repeated over and over.

Mine is instead of more fun they say funner.

Show me anyone who is correct all the time and I,ll show you someone who hasn't been out of his lab experiment since birth!

It's not going to be the end of the world without perfect grammar. Tc

You just had to bring up the lab, didn't you, TC!

My big one is could, instead of couldn't, care less.