What's your Pet Peeve?

Mine are open mouth chewing with that mouthy eating sounds 😖... (Makes me wanna slap someone silly).

And people using "more THEN" instead of "more THAN" when talking about comparisons 😖.

Here's a helpful link to explain clarify that once and for all: https://www.learngrammar.net/a/more-than-vs-more-then-lets-not-confuse-the-spellings

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Glossy · F

People that say... "should [u]of[/u]" instead of "should [u]have[/u]".

That one really annoys me.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Glossy Indeed - and on linguistic peeves, mine include -

- tautology (meet /talk [i]with[/i], revert[i] back[/i], etc.);

- cliches like "long story short" (just be concise!) and "rabbit holes" (pardon?);

- affecting other countries' idioms or slang (different [i]than[/i], th[i]uh[/i] air instead of th[i]ee[/i] air, "meld", "woke", - etc.)

Mistakesmakeus · M

@Glossy that should of been a problem last year