Misuse of a word

[Jazzy]

What misuse of a word really irks you?

 

[Jazzy]

When people mix up "to" and "too". Grammar usually doesn't bug me that much but for some reason to/too really irks me.

 

[Martin]

"Of".  Yes, really; "of".  People type "should of" or "could of" I think because the contraction sounds somewhat like that, but in case you've missed or flunked your 4th grade English class, "should've"  and "could've", when written as separate words are "could HAVE" and "should HAVE".  See the "'ve" at the end of the contraction?  It does not say "could'of" or "should'of"; that "'ve" at the end really should remind you of the word "have", not "of". In contractions, the apostrophe takes the place of the missing letters in the 2nd word.
It blows my mind when I see grown, supposedly educated people say "should of".  Seriously blows my mind.  And  makes the person doing it look really stupid!

I'm the exact same as you with this one. I often see people using the word "of" in the wrong way. Even something like "should have" is better than "should of" but "should've" is obviously the best way to phrase the sentence.

 

[Enter Username Here]

Your and You're bothers me.

Pet peeve.

 

[Loucifer]

All of the words that have been mentioned so far!

It also annoys me when people say "Pacific" when they mean "specific". The Pacific is an ocean!!!

 

[Jazzy]

A few more I just can't stand the misuse of:

Then and than. There, they're and their. Not that hard to learn, people.

 

[Nebulous]

your, you're

and

their, they're and there.

They basic meanings change when you use the wrong one. It's not that hard to remember which ones do what.