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What English Pet Peeves do You Love to Hate?
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| Sep 4, 2014
| Dave Bricker
Posted on 09/08/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT by PeteePie
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To: PeteePie
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:52:23 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: SMARTY
Or... John Mellencamp: “I cannot forget from where it is that I come from...”
To: PeteePie
Non English people using the word “whilst”.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:53:11 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
To: odawg
But “media” is plural.
And the expression “the reason being is ...” The verb in that phrase is “being.” It does not require “is.” It would only need another verb if the phrase were itself a noun, which it is not. Substitute “is” for “being” and listen to how stupid it sounds.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:53:39 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: PeteePie
To: SMARTY
It sounds like
But if this ever changing world in which were living
but the actual words are
“But if this ever changing world in which we’re living”
Clumsy lyrics but proper English.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:54:11 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: PeteePie
could not care less vs. could care less
To: Fresh Wind
Prolly is just short for probaly.
-PJ
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:55:51 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Oops, it sounds like
But if this ever changing world in which we live in
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:55:55 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: PeteePie
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:56:19 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: PeteePie
My biggest peeve lately is this mindless phrase MY BAD, which makes absolutely, positively no sense whatsoever, but it's used everywhere. It's not funny, nor cool, nor grammatically logical in any way.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:56:46 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: Doctor 2Brains
Yeah, sorry, just trying to have nerdy fun.
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posted on
09/08/2014 6:59:52 AM PDT
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: PeteePie
Oh boy...pet peeves:
The electrical bolts that come from the sky...they are spelled “lightning” not “lightening”.
The word “height” does not end with a “th” sound.
There is no “k” sound in the word “ancient”.
There is no “k” sound in the word “etcetera”.
Sherbet is not pronounced “Sherbert”
“Told” is not pronounced, “Toad”
There is no “d” in the word, “refrigerator”.
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posted on
09/08/2014 7:00:57 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
To: PeteePie
“More then” instead of “more than”. That drive me bonkers.
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posted on
09/08/2014 7:01:37 AM PDT
by
wvguy
To: SMARTY
In this ever-changing world in which we live in, I cringe.
I think it’s “In this ever-changing world in which we’re living”.
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posted on
09/08/2014 7:04:10 AM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
To: Doctor 2Brains; SMARTY
I think Roger Waters edges him out with “we don’t need no education.” However, America holds the butchering title with “there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.”
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posted on
09/08/2014 7:04:59 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: PeteePie
To: PeteePie
When we started using:
Gone missing
Going to University or hospital instead of
the University or
the hospital.
Spot on.
I want to start using "Too right! and Bloody this or that."
38
posted on
09/08/2014 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: SMARTY
Could have fixed it by singing in this ever changing world in which we’re living.
To: Drawsing
You will find neither an “x” nor a “t” in “ask.”
There is no “r” sound in the word “question.”
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