r/mildlyinfuriating • u/HacheeHachee • 11h ago
*yuor'e I’m so tired of reading “Would of” instead of “Would have” or “Would’ve.”
Who would of thought It even took me a bit more time to write this post bc spell check kept correcting it to “would have.” And yet, so many people still can’t seem to get it right.
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u/MissKitty919 8h ago
A newer thing I've noticed for a while now is there are apostrophes in everything it seems. Plural words do not have or need apostrophes.
There, their, they're / two, to, too....these are others that are annoying, too, when they're used incorrectly.
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u/RonaldinhoReagan 5h ago
When I got engaged somebody made the apostrophe mistake on a gift. I’ll use a fake name but engraved into a fucking wooden cutting board it says The Smith’s instead of The Smiths.
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u/pew-pew-bacca 5h ago
I could care less about what there really trying to say. They could of just been mistaken.
Typing that sentence gave me a panic attack.
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u/pdubz82 11h ago
Why can anyone spell LOSE?! idk why thats been buggin me lately. its Lose not Loose.
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u/Ssssilph 9h ago
It pisses me off so much when I lose in a PvP game and get called "looser". There's something humbling about getting wrecked by someone who can't spell
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u/Equivalent-Ad-6182 4h ago
Since you lost, the pressure is gone. Now you are able to relax, helping you to feel looser. The looser loser lost at losing.
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u/Fair_Abalone3669 10h ago
I know where people learned to read by the way they spell BUT in a contradictory sentence. I have learned to keep a straight face and continue on when I see BUTT where there really should be a BUT.
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u/StrawberryKiss2559 8h ago
I see this at least once a day! I literally just saw another comment about five minutes ago where they said something about “loose some weight”. My god.
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u/nikstick22 8h ago
My guess is that we've flipped the vowel lengths. In English, vowels are lengthened before voiced consonants, so lose is /lu:z/ and loose is /lus/, despite loose having twice as many 'o's.
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u/Horsez96 7h ago edited 6h ago
Because, unfortunately, our education is getting worse still. We already weren’t learning what our parents learned, entire classes no longer existed in high school (an example is Civics). Now, our children that are in public schools aren’t learning how to read or spell, they are learning how to memorize what a particular word looks like. Also, some people just don’t care if they are using the correct one. Some don’t know the difference.
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u/mistermusturd 9h ago
Oh I could go on all day. How is it that so many people simply CANNOT grasp when to use the word “too?” Same with “you’re” and “your” and anything involving apostrophes.
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u/NightCheeseNinja 8h ago
So many of my kid's teachers over the year have had misspellings like this. And they're, their, there -- using the wrong ones on the white board! "Everyone needs to turn in there homework today" .. I've seen that one on the board before.
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u/DV8y 9h ago
Statement is kind of vague, can you be more pacific?
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u/Salt-Operation 8h ago
My Korean coworker says this instead of “specific” but I’m not gonna correct her. I think it’s cute.
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u/MarcSkye519 7h ago
Or anyways when the correct word is anyway.
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u/ELM-12345 5h ago
I write it with an S because that's always how I've said it; "anyway" just feels like it's missing some kind of ending tie-off (such as the S!)
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u/MarcSkye519 5h ago
You’re used to saying it wrong. Not your fault, I probably hear it with an s on the end more often than the right way. But try this; just say it “anyway” a few times and pretty soon it’ll sound correct (which it is).
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u/Charming_Butterfly90 7h ago
And if you casually mention so that folks can learn, the response always is, “well you understood what I meant.” People would rather sound and write like morons than bother learning a basic thing they should have picked up in school.
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u/Mean_Guarantee_5266 4h ago
Then and than seem to be interchangeable these days. Are people ignorant, or are they doing it deliberately?
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u/PM_ME_UR_SEXY_ELBOW 3h ago
I can’t stand when people incorrectly use “myself”. All my coworkers always end emails with “please send any questions to bill or myself”. Drives me crazy
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u/Critically_Large 11h ago
It’s becoming more and more common as the focus on proper spelling and grammar has declined over the last few decades. Saying “would of” or “should of” doesn’t even make sense.
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u/jvaritek33c 11h ago
I love to use y'all'd've as often as possible
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u/Dependent-Purple9736 8h ago
Shouldn’t’ve is deep in my southern lexicon
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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 7h ago
We say “shouldn’t’ve” in the UK too, at least where I live it’s normal, but honestly I’ve never seen it written out lol
It’s weird but I’ve seen a lot of similarities between southern US and Northwest UK, not in the way we sound but some of the things we say and the way we say it. More similar than I’d initially have thought.
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u/Havarti-Provolone 10h ago
I also dislike when people say "whenever" when they should have just said "when"
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u/Ok-Razzmatazz-3720 8h ago
Finally, someone else like me. I’m always bitching about it when I see it on TV and nobody else cares.
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u/Longjumping_Gap_7377 7h ago
When people say whenever as they think it makes them sound more intelligent is the worst
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u/UnIdentifed_Squid 9h ago
Oh my god, this almost pisses me off more than you’re and your. Every time I try to explain this one to people they never understand what I mean!
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u/King_Empress 6h ago
I'm ngl I've personally never even pronounced these the same because my brain refuses to let the enunciation of "you" disappear in "you're" so my "you're" sounds like (yoo-re) and my "your" sounds like (yor)
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u/Havarti-Provolone 4h ago
Are you from the South?
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u/King_Empress 4h ago
No I am not
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u/Havarti-Provolone 4h ago
Oh huh.
I grew up in the north in the US, and now I'm in Texas, and I had never heard someone say YOU-r until I got here
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u/King_Empress 4h ago edited 4h ago
I was born an raised In Hawaii but I dont actually pay attention to how people say it so now im curious if this is beyond myself. My grandma on my moms side is a white hispanic from California and and my mother and her family are from the Phillipines, but both side used local pidgin so im not entirely sure if ive picked up these habits purely from my own compulsion or not
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u/analogpursuits 8h ago
Irregardless, people will never not fuck that up.
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u/PerformanceSure5985 3h ago
Even worse is when they use the past tense of the verb following 'of' instead of the past participle. Now that really grinds my gears:
I should of went.
They shouldn't of did it.
Ugh. 🤮
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u/modsaretoddlers 8h ago
Wait until you notice how few on Reddit know how to spell the past tense of "pay".
On a positive note, I've noticed a lot fewer people using the nonsense word, "over-exaggerated", so that's good.
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u/pdrpersonguy575 7h ago
"Payed" is especially irritating because autocorrect doesn't flag it, since it technically is a real word that just means something else. Maybe that's why it's so common.
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u/ELM-12345 5h ago
"over-exaggeration" isn't actually as redundant as it might seem; you can exaggerate something to a greater degree than necessary
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u/modsaretoddlers 4h ago
Really? And what is an appropriate level of exaggeration?
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u/ELM-12345 2h ago
That depends on the people you're around and what you're exaggerating. Every person/group of people is different, and most topics are talked about in different lights
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u/BetNo5785 10h ago
Also it's ANYWAY. No S not anyways
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u/btspacecadet 8h ago
To be fair that one is a dictionary-acknowledged informal spelling, most of the other examples are just plain wrong.
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u/--read-only-- 7h ago
Lately I've been getting annoyed when people say something "peaked" their interest instead of "piqued"
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u/feenie224 3h ago
One of my pet peeves as well. The other one is when someone uses the word I instead of me. It’s not, “they gave it to him and I” as you wouldn’t say “they gave it to I”. So simple but even educated people screw this up.
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u/caesar_rex 11h ago
Me too. There should be a reddit bot for it. It would instantly make the world a better place.
Seriously, I want there to be a study. Probably would be deployed hundreds of thousands of times per day, but after like 2 months, it would hardly be used because reddit would be smarter.
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u/langsamlourd 9h ago
There was a bit doing that exact thing for a while! I don't know what became of it but I loved it
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u/spider_X_1 8h ago
There used to be a grammar bot before Reddit got that big update that apparently messed with some third-party modding tools. There was a huge uproar in all the big subs to boycott the app for some days. It corrected me once on the difference between "paid" and "payed"
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u/ldn6 9h ago
Everyone talking about immigration seems to be incapable of using “borders” rather than “boarders” for some reason.
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u/Particular_Stomach98 8h ago
I see lots of little spelling mistakes all over this website and it drives me up the wall.
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u/CobblerSmall1891 6h ago
The worst one I of seen lately (this one is second worst) is "could of of done". When one fuckup isn't enough.
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u/68742isEverything 4h ago
Oh man, this is definitely a topic that fires me up, and I'm so tired of the counter argument, "Deal with it, language evolves."
Yes, language evolves, but there are places where it absolutely should not. The worst offenders for me:
- Calling records vinyls.
- Tacking -gate to a word to denote a scandal (this really pisses me off).
- Expresso and expecially.
- Using literally when you mean figuratively.
- Calling devices that roll "hover" boards (thankfully that fad died a fiery death).
- Acrosst and heighth.
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u/Carl_La_Fong 4h ago
The -gate thing represents such mental laziness. I will pretty much not read anything that has a -gate in the title.
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u/DemonaJade 2h ago
Acrossed or acrosst drives me bananas. I also had an ex that would say "vengetables" Shivers Ugh, another one that kills me is "irregardless". Just fucking sh**t me. I know that in the grand scheme of life none of this really matters. Like, no one will remember which word I used in 100 years. Except it kind of does matter if you zoom out further and realize that using our knowledge to our fullest potential raises the frequency of humanity. But, what do I know? Cogito, ergo sum.
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u/North-Example5687 8h ago
How about using amount when you mean number? As in “You wouldn’t believe the amount of people at the concert”
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u/HotLettuce- 10h ago
Intensive purposes instead of intents and purposes. Iregardless (which apparently is in the dictionary now). Using the word literally when someone clearly means figuratively. The lack of proper punctuation. George Carlin would be having a fucking field day.
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u/Draegoron 10h ago
Similar, and maybe it's just me, but...when did "I did it by accident" become "I did it on accident"?
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u/adagator 6h ago
“Would of” is honestly single-handedly my BIGGEST pet peeve. It sends me into orbit with rage idk why.
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u/DemonaJade 3h ago
Sometimes I feel like the grammar, spelling, and punctuation police. This also irritates me.
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u/ElijaHyphen 10h ago
I of to admit I of seen this happening alot lately and I don't want to be apart of the group making this mistake.
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u/ElijaHyphen 10h ago
"alot" as one word and "apart" when they mean "a part" is my second biggest peeve. Fucking hell ...
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u/lizzyote 10h ago
After seeing the stats on illiteracy recently, I understand why so many do "of" instead of "have". "Would've" being mistaken for "would of" when you've only heard it said out loud instead of written.
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u/Disastrous-Capybara 8h ago
But, even said out loud it always sounds like a 'would-ave' to me, not a 'would-of', so they probably heard it from people that way that already got it wrong before 😅
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u/maxh2 6h ago
The ones that bug me:
_ and I vs. me and _ - Would you say "my mom took I to the store"? No? Then don't say "my mom took my brother and I to the store"! Sometimes me and [whatever] is the proper way. If you're not sure, delete the [whatever] and the and, and say it with just the me or I. If it sounds right, great. If not, use the other one.
feeling badly - unless you're trying to say you're not very skilled at performing the action of feeling, don't say you feel badly! Yes, to feel is a verb, and an adverb should be used to describe a verb, and yes, bad is an adjective while badly is an adverb. BUT if you're trying to say that you're ill or unwell, or have a negative state of mind, or you're trying to express sympathy, then bad is used, because it's describing YOU, a noun, or your emotional state, also a noun, NOT how well you're able to perform the action of feeling. BTW, if you say you feel well, you're using well as an adjective, and it's proper. Feeling good is also proper. Well can also be an adverb, so that may have confused you.
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u/Through_theShadows 5h ago
"Breaks" when people are writing about car brakes drives me absolutely insane.
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u/No_Cap_6806 5h ago
Isle instead of Aisle
Workout when it should be work out
Inappropriate apostrophe use bothers me more, though.
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u/Bluespheal 4h ago
Then and than, it drives me up the wall and I almost never see it mentioned.
"X is better then Y"
and for some reason some people really do use than instead of then, not that very common but I've seen it.
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u/BlueSonjo 10h ago
Me to. Only losers write like that.
I have been waiting with baited breath for people to get their spelling in order. Thats' why a post like this peaked my interest.
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u/Constant-Catch7146 10h ago
Or loosers write like that. Lol.
So many commenters don't know the difference between lose and loose.
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u/Hyentics 5h ago
Idk, i think as long as the reader/listener understands what point is being made or the author/speaker is getting their point across then a few "ain'ts" and "learneds" and "would of, could of, should ofs" shouldn't matter
But i get that for people who have english as a second language, it's especially obnoxious because they're taught all this "most proper" english. While us dingleberries with english as a first language put in the most minimal effort to speak it / type it right
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u/Impossible_Royal_302 3h ago
I’m actually fine with the word ain’t; the arguments against it are absolutely stupid and based on nothing except 18th century grammarians’ love of Latin.
“Ain’t” was perfectly acceptable as a contraction of “am not” for a long time before prescriptivists started agitating against it.
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u/NoPaleontologist9054 5h ago
No, it’s an epidemic atp, the masses are so illiterate it’s beyond ridiculous.
It will never get better if we all just accept it because “we understand what they mean”. As the OP stated, phones correct you or offer for you to be corrected but they’re just ignoring it. 🫠 It’s bewildering.
I’m not entirely sure how we can help fix it because if you mention anything or try to correct people they all get butt hurt and scream “oOoH hErE’s ThE gRaMmAr PoLiCe” or excuse it by saying “I’m only typing on the internet, it’s not that deep”… When in actuality, it is that fucking deep. 😭
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u/UnIdentifed_Squid 9h ago
Your and you’re is the one that irritates me the most. It grinds my gears
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u/Vega10000 7h ago
And they even talk like that now. One of my youtubers clearly say would of instead of would've
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u/MarcSkye519 7h ago
I can’t help but worry about people with their wooden chews. Don’t they get splinters in their tongues?
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u/PigsIsEqual 7h ago
I agree with all of these! I have a few more:
"Where are you at?" There is no need to add "AT"!!!
And admittedly a silly one:
The use of "Anywho" when starting a new paragraph. WTF?
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u/Ghost_of_a_Pale_Girl 6h ago
I get (admittedly irrationally) bothered over people saying "whenever" instead of "when". Maybe it's a regional thing? I don't remember ever hearing it when I was younger and then all of a sudden tons of people are saying it.
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u/ThaneofCawdor8 6h ago
Agreed. And I'll add casted to my list of ignorant usage peeves. Seriously, what the fuck happened to our education system in this country?
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u/Winegirl7349 6h ago
THIS. Thank you! The minute I see someone making comments this way, I completely check out. I stop reading immediately.
I. Just. Can’t. 🙄
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u/Winegirl7349 6h ago
How about forgetting the "r" in "your".
I'm going to pick up you daughter after the movie.
😣😣
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u/LifeLiving7723 5h ago
Noone instead of no one. Costed instead of cost. Is it ignorance or just not taking time to proofread?
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u/NoPaleontologist9054 5h ago
AND hearing it. 😩
It makes my brain shrivel up.
Also “bRoUgHt” when they mean ‘bought’?!? 🤬 😭
It’s beyond ignorance at this point. So many claim “iT’s BeCaUsE oF mY/tHeiR aCcEnT”. Bull. Shit.
It’s because of a lack of intellectual capacity and an unwillingness to learn or be educated.
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u/bigmamachuddies 4h ago
Would but won't. Should but shorn't. What part of shorn't don't you understand?
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u/Ok-Order-134 4h ago
here’s the kicker… Once enough people start using the wrong thing, it becomes the new, correct sad but true
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u/ReceptionAlarmed9434 1h ago
It’s amazing to me that so many people on a text based app are functionally illiterate.
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u/thehotredditmonster 1h ago
People typing "his" when they mean "he's"
This might just be a thing in South Africa where we have so many official languages and the odd slip-up is to be expected from someone who's English is their second or even thire language. But I have also seen entirely English people make this mistake many times.
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u/truffleshufflechamp 8h ago
The following infuriates me:
-Who’s instead of whose
-Loose instead of lose
-Of instead of have
All of these mistakes are increasing at an alarming rate.