Quote Originally Posted by BeBerlin View Post
What really annoys me are grammatical errors that can ambiguise entire sentences, like "they're/their/there" or "its/it's".



The most bothersome mis-use of words for me are insure versus ensure and less versus fewer. To insure something means that you take out an insurance policy. You don't insure that certain work will get done, yet people write it all the time. Less and fewer seems more innocuous to me, but it's such a simple rule, I don't understand why it’s so misused. If you can count it, use fewer. If you can't count it, use less. It's like the rhyme, "Those signs in the grocery store, they certainly are peculiar. They say ten items or less when they should say ten items or fewer."


And while we're on the topic, whatever happened to the use of the word whom? Who is a subject and whom is an object. It's not that hard, but we’ve gotten so bad at distinguishing them that even the dictionary now says to use who as an object.