Pet Peeve - English grammar.

[Tom_Joad]

Yes, you must take it with a grain assault.

[BGY11]

Originally Posted by flaminghomer

If we're going to talk about speech, my all time favourite is "short-lived" pronounced with a short 'i'.

Are you saying that 'short-lived' should be said with a long 'i' sound? If so, then that is incorrect. In this case, 'lived' is referring to the verb 'live' - which has a short "i" sound.

[Exid0r]

Pearls Before Swine (link to online comic)

alright @ Dictionary.com

Wooderson quote @ IMDB.com

[flaminghomer]

@BGY11: I found this on thefreedictionary.com, which actually lists both pronunciations:

Usage Note: The pronunciation (-lvd) is etymologically correct since the compound is derived from the noun life, rather than from the verb live. But the pronunciation (-lvd) is by now so common that it cannot be considered an error. In the most recent survey 43 percent of the Usage Panel preferred (-lvd), 39 percent preferred (-lvd), and 18 percent found both pronunciations equally acceptable.

[Jake]

I love these examples.

I have a friend who likes to debate my spelling or pronunciation. If you are reading this dear friend please take no offence.

Expresso: Versus the standard espresso spelling.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expresso

Height: \ˈhīt, ÷ˈhītth\
When ending it with the second pronunciation or "th" sound.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/height

[PokerFace]

I like to intentionally use incorrect words and grammar in my daily life, just to see if anybody has the nerve or knowledge to bother correcting me.

Celine Dion likes to move her own furnitures.

I hate it when peoples interrupt me.

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[A boy falls off his skateboard]

Girl: Are you all right?

Boy: No. I'm half left.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-alright-all-right/

Scholars and grammarians are constantly debating the question of alright vs. all right. In common usage, all right is a synonym for okay or satisfactory, as in “Are you all right?” However, it can also mean “all correct”, as in, “My answers on the test were all right.”

Generally, most editors and teachers don’t think “alright” is all right. If you’re in doubt, it’s best to stick with the more widely accepted two-word “all right,” especially in formal academic or professional writing.

Imdb lists the Ace Ventura catchphrase (catch phrase) as "All righty then!"

Wikiquotes lists it as "Alrighty then!"

There is a movie called The Kids Are All Right (2010) and one called The Kids Are Alright (1979).

I prefer to type the word alright, even though it looks wrong.

I'm a lazyboy ... I mean lazy boy, of coarse ... ummm, of course.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com...s-alright.aspx
[My grammar is always right, or is it?]

And the American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style seems to contradict itself. It states that “alright” as one word “has never been accepted as standard” but it then goes on to explain that “all right” as two words and “alright” as one word have two distinct meanings.

It gives the example of the sentence “The figures are all right.” When you use “all right” as two words, the sentence means “the figures are all accurate.”

When you write “The figures are alright,” with “alright” as one word, this source explains that the sentence means “the figures are satisfactory.” I’m not sure what to make of this contradiction. The many other grammar sources I checked, including a large dictionary, reject “alright” as one word.

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I also like using [brackets], (parentheses), {braces}, and several hyphens to remind me that I'm going off topic or just being silly. It makes the paragraphs virtually unreadable (especially when I add run-on sentences to the mix), but it allows me to bury things (I like to wear pink underwear) that I don't want the average reader to pay attention to, or to even comment on.

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To whom it may concern: I will never know who's on first, or whose shoes I would rather walk a mile in. To often avoid the problem of using who or whom in a sentence, I prefer to use the word that, whenever I think I can get away with it.

And knowing the difference between whether you implied or inferred something is also often beyond my comprehension.

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I also hate it when hockey announcers mention that the puck would have WENT into the net ... instead of the correct way: have GONE.

I watched a lot of hockey as a teenager, and I would often say things like: "I should have WENT to school that day," without anybody correcting me. Eventually, my mother heard me utter that grammar blasphemy and let me know that I should have GONE to school more often, so that my sentences would make more sense.

Thanks, Mom.