What's your least favorite common grammar/spelling error?

[Perradial 114]

Personally, mine is spelling. I'm fine with typos, though, because everyone has those once in a while. I mean things like misspelling "maroon" as "moron". Yes, it's happened.

 

EDIT: I realized I made a spelling error when I typed this post, whoops.

Edited November 9, 2015 by Royally Blue

[green 331]

I should have learned the differences between their, they're, and there back when I was in second grade. To this day I still don't get it.

[1Bit 1,531]

Mine's just a matter of inconvenience with my damn keyboard...

 

I'll often just quickly type "back in a sec" if need be when talking to someone, but when you're in a hurry it's quite easy to hit the X key instead of the C key leaving me with an embarrassing typo 

[TerminalObsession 250]

Whenever people put apostrophes in plural nouns.

Drives me crazy.

[PoisonClaw 8,164]

Oh, I have a few, but my biggest pet peeves will always be people who mix up "to", "two" and " too" and people who mix up "lose" and "loose". I've even seen people screw it up to the point of writing "loosing" which is not a word.

[Wingnut 6,994]

Most of them are pet peeves of mine but mixing up they're there and their especially so.  Few are looking to make an award winning essay with a daily blog or forum post and I'll overlook a lot of little things.  But I'll let them in on a secret:  Right or wrong, readers judge authors by the quality of their writing.  Making lots of mistakes, even if it's due to laziness or indifference, reflects poorly on them. 

[cmarston1 5,959]

You're, your and it's and its as well as there their and they're are my least favorite common grammar/spelling errors.

[PastelBread 147]

Personally any grammar errors get on my nerves. I put spelling down because I didn't know what to put, haha. I can understand if English is not your first language, but if you have been learning English all your life it kind of gets on my nerves. That is just me, though.

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

For me it is when people express "et cetera" as ect... It urks me to no end.

 

Please, everypony! The poor etc needs your help, for only 1 dollar a day you can put an etc up on a screen all over the world. Think about the etc!

[SquipyCheetah 449]

Most spelling and grammar errors bother me but the difference between led and lead really pisses me off. I see this crap in textbooks for the gods' sakes...

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

Spelling errors

 

It just seems people don't know the difference between:

 

Rapping vs Raping

Incense vs incest

Cologne vs Colon

Popping Vs Pooping

And my personal favorite

Annulus vs anus

 

 

Also commas a save lives folks.

 

"Shit me" is not the same as "shit, me"

[Pinkiebow 48]

For me it is when people express "et cetera" as ect... It urks me to no end.

 

Please, everypony! The poor etc needs your help, for only 1 dollar a day you can put an etc up on a screen all over the world. Think about the etc!

I didn't realise how much I hated this error until you brought it up.

My biggest flaw is having a "not so good" english (since i'm from a non-english speaking country and I learned most of my english by watching youtube videos) and still being a big grammar nazi. I'm such a hypocrite 

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

I didn't realise how much I hated this error until you brought it up.

My biggest flaw is having a "not so good" english (since i'm from a non-english speaking country and I learned most of my english by watching youtube videos) and still being a big grammar nazi. I'm such a hypocrite 

 

 

Well, that would be an issue, except that et cetera is Latin. It is also very common across many languages. One of my friends even pronounced it "eck cetera" once. *CRINGE!*

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,549]

The 'your' and 'you're' mistake bothers me to no end. Though when some troll online uses 'your' within an insult, that is a good source of amusement for me. 

 

"Your stupid!"

 

As if I own a stupid. 

[Celtore 2,770]

Homonyms drive me up the wall. So yes, mixing up a "their" or messing up a "you're" makes me fairly upset internally. It's really not that difficult to take the time to choose the right words, though I'm a bit more forgiving of it's and its. Hell, the only reason I know that difference is because of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

 

Some less common mix-ups that I've seen in the past that particularly annoyed me also include ["are" and "our"], and ["tide" and "tied"]

[Xiflelin 72]

"Figger" instead of figure. There's a u in there, use it.

 

If you don't, that's just being lazy.

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

All grammar errors annoy me, but mixing up your and you're are probably the most annoying. They're an eyesore, and makes the person who wrote it look like they don't care about what they are writing. Unfortunately it's one of the most common.    

[galaxysquid 2,122]

I try not to show it, but I'm a big grammar Nazi. XD

Edited November 12, 2015 by PrincessWubsyButt~

[taryncoda03 52]

My top pet peeve has to be your and you're.  Is it really that hard to figure out when you're trying to say "you are" over "your?" 

[Sonic Shimmer 4,132]

People who say "could care less" to show they don't care.

 

Saying you could care less implies that you care. The correct term is "couldn't care less".

[Biggybrony 244]

Wrong apostrophe usage (its / it's) not because I'm a snob but because it's the main one that I read wrong before realising what they meant. Also, screw the American habit of replacing Ss with Zs (realising / realizing). I know it sounds logical but I refuse to let Word keep spell checking me for spelling something the way it's meant to be spelled.

People who say "could care less" to show they don't care.

Saying you could care less implies that you care. The correct term is "couldn't care less".

 That drives me crazy as well (I'm looking at you Queen Chrysalis)

 

[IcyHaze 594]

Incorrectly using words, such as "awhile" instead of "a while". Effect instead of affect. That sort of thing

[Lisa 5,553]

When people talk like this:

 

"So i went to the shop the other day and i bought some new shoes i really like them i think that the color black really suits me. i don't really like the color white though i think it looks boring."

 

Capitalise your fucking 'i' when referring to yourself and use commas/fullstops. 

 

Also the American spelling of 'colour' and 'favourite' as 'color' and 'favorite.' And the American spelling of the '-ise' suffix as '-ize.' (E.g, 'capitalise' as 'capitalize').

[EquestriaGuy 1,074]

I'm disappointed the thread title wasn't, "What's you're least favorite common grammar/spelling error?"

[Perradial 114]

I'm disappointed the thread title wasn't, "What's you're least favorite common grammar/spelling error?"

Or "whats you're least favrite common grammer/spelling airor."