Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves

[El]

Proper use of its vs it's.  One of our bigger resident grammar nazis consistently confuses them.

[TheoK]

Anglicus qualibet una inepta lingua 

[Queen Victoria]

Having only consonants is 

Hebrew has no vowels either.

[Queen Victoria]

I've read that "shit" in pidgin English is "Ash belong-um fire."

"Nice" originally meant "stupid."

[TheoK]

"School" originally meant "free time", because only those who didn't have to work for their living had time to study. Unlike in many other languages Swedish semester still means "paid holiday" (it literally means "six months", though).

[renaeden]

This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:

["couldbecousin"]

Having only consonants is 

  Welsh words seem to have 8 or 9 consonants in a row!   

[Bastet]

overuse of double negatives

"You don't know nothing"
"No it don't"

FUCK!

[Adam]

Your / you're

and same as renaeden - apostrophes where the shouldn't be

lazy spelling/grammar doesn't bother me (ie not using apostrophes when there should be one , or "tho" instead of "though" - i do that all the time on the internet), but otherwise it's annoying

[Queen Victoria]

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

[P7PSP]

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

How about The Four Tops singing Ain't No Woman Like The One Eyed Gott?  That made no sense to me.   

[skyblue1]

One grammar peeve is "got."  "I've got to.....", just seems to grate on my ears.  Unfortunately, I use it too often and my ears hurt too much.  From what I've read there's no consensus on whether it's grammatical, but it doesn't seem proper to me.

How about The Four Tops singing Ain't No Woman Like The One Eyed Gott?  That made no sense to me.   

I got nothing

[odeon]

The way some say "none of us ARE".

[Adam]

This signwriter should be ashamed of themselves:
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The apostrophe thing is even more common with acromyms for some reason. As if people just can't accept that big letters have a small letter after them without an apostrophe in between

bad grammar doesn't bother me at all. Online I mean. In an essay it would be different, but on internet forums I type pretty much how I'd speak. So I would probably put "none of us are" because that's what I'd say in conversation with someone

It's when people add something that shouldn't be there (ie got it wrong out of ignorance rather than laziness) that it bothers me. I know that's kinda asshole-ish. Which is why I try not to comment on grammar/punctuation mistakes as it shouldn't matter. Plus we all make them. Even people who are great at spelling and usually very careful about it all - you're bound to slip up sometimes.

It's weird how almost all of us have at least one or two grammar/punctuation pet peeves though.

[Queen Victoria]

VIN number = Vehicle Identification Number number