What words annoy you when used wrong or people don't know the meaning of?

Laying instead of lying. The dog was laying on the rug. How many eggs?

You fell into that elephant trap OP...
People who live in glass houses etc

kittylester

Earlier a man on the tv said someone had been 'capitulated into the headlines' - I still haven't recovered.

I've heard and even read discussions where people call for a return of capital punishment in schools

Another one for was instead of were.
Lend instead of borrow.
Learn instead of taught.

Devorgilla

Fewer v less. Even newsreaders get it wrong.

Surely that's the scriptwriters not the newsreaders.
But most of this is becoming arcane knowledge nowadays.
At least for everyday usage.

Shouldn't this be on the Pedants thread! 😉
I have to excuse some mistakes because predictive text is often guilty.

The wrong words and grammar are used so often that it's easy to think it's ok.
Hence: he was stood there and she was sat .
Could I swear these are both wrong?

Agree with Greyduster. This sort of thing is OK as a kind of game among we old fogeys but definitely Bad Form to ever correct anyone unbidden.

One that has always grated on me is seen instead of saw. As in 'I seen her' It pains me to type it. Another is the current use of myself instead of I, e.g. John and myself instead of John and I.

Should of instead of should have. Keemunity instead of community. Arks instead of ask.

Lightening when referring to lightning.

Footballers mixing up tenses in a sentence.

At this moment in time instead of now.

OF used in place of HAVE……..argh!!!!!!

I had a cleaner whose daughter lived above a delicatessen.

She pronounced it “delincontestant”.

The children would always try and get her to say it😬.

Two times, instead of twice!

Discrete, when they mean ‘discreet’.

‘Donut’ always irritates me. It’s ‘doughnut’!

Not to mention Brits saying ‘math’, and ‘ass’ when they mean ‘arse’.

grannyjan2

Surely .. "which" words annoy when used "wrongly" .. OK .. I'm a pedant ..

How do you pacify a pedant?

Their, there, they're.

I am annoyed by the way number and amount have become interchangeable. Who weighs the amount of people attending a concert ,event or just on the high street.

Decimated

Astitchintime

OF used in place of HAVE……..argh!!!!!!

This is the one that bugs me the most, and is becoming more prevalent, unfortunately.

Grammaretto

Shouldn't this be on the Pedants thread! 😉
I have to excuse some mistakes because predictive text is often guilty.

The wrong words and grammar are used so often that it's easy to think it's ok.
Hence: he was stood there and she was sat .
Could I swear these are both wrong?

The illustration you give is a given if you were born and bred in Yorkshire or Ireland.

Himdowntheroad

grannyjan2

Surely .. "which" words annoy when used "wrongly" .. OK .. I'm a pedant ..

How do you pacify a pedant?

Their, there, they're.

If that had, indeed, been said in Yorkshire, it would have been “He were stood there”, “she were sat”.

Cossy

Nannee49

Font instead of typeface...drives me absolutely nuts.

Isn’t that correct though, or I am being very dim?

Not the same thing. Typeface is the description of the Font.
The Font is the actual piece of lead.

The ‘wrong/wrongly’ mentions have reminded me of a moment many years ago.
After tests at school, dd2 (then IIRC 10) said, ‘English was OK, Mum, but I did really craply at maths.’ 😂😂