Peeves! Get'cher Peeves Here!

[gnomi]

As a follow-up to yesterday's discussion, I began to wonder what folks' grammar error pet peeves are. Here are some of mine:

-- Its/it's

-- Fewer/less

-- That/which

-- Their/they're/there

-- Your/you're

I'd love to hear other folks', if you all (or y'all) are in a mood to share.

Comments

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

Here's mine: Impact is NOT a verb.

Impactful isn't a word AT ALL.

[fynixsoul.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I saw that word in a phamplet for the Chicago CTA once. They were talking about their plan to keep the trains running during construction, and claimed that "The Three-Track Plan is the least impactful."

[zsero.livejournal.com]

One would hope. It's good that they were thinking of how to avoid impacts.

[cellio]

Can we dialogue about that? :-(

I don't know when widespread verbing of nouns where perfectly good verbs already existed began, but this particular one afflicts me at work frequently. You'd think that people who won't buy a correctness argument would at least buy an efficieny one ("talk" is one syllable rather than three), but no...