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

[magid.livejournal.com]

Orientate.

And it annoys me that burglarize is English; burgle is an excellent verb.

Not that either of those are the homonym issue.

Oh, and my dad, in addition to having drummed the difference between fewer and less into me, insists that it is "skimmed milk." Which I suppose is technically correct, but still sounds wrong to me, even though that other beverage is definitely "iced tea," not "ice tea."

[zsero.livejournal.com]

"Burgle" is not an excellent verb; it's a back-formation from "burglar" by people who don't know that the word is "burglarise". If "burgle" were a verb, then a person who did it would be a "burgler", not a "burglar".