If it's hanging lose off your car, you may loose it going down the road. 

Favorite Missouri speak:    Warsh the dishes.

Raymond_B wrote:

We all have our pet peeves, some of mine are

ATM Machine...
Coupon should be pronounced coupe-on, not with a Q.

There, I feel better

You mean the ATM Machine where you must enter your PIN Number.  That really gripes my axss.

Steve69 wrote:

It depends on if your Yankee or a Southerner...LOL  

Reminds me of another one.
Your vs You’re. (Hint, hint Steve)

TKOPerformance wrote:

My biggest might be "impacted" used to refer to the past tense of "impact".  The issue is that "impacted" is an adjective, not a verb.  You can have an "impacted" tooth, but the asteroid cannot be described as having "impacted" Earth.  The asteroid made impact on (or upon) Earth.  I hear supposedly educated people use it wrong all the time.  And speaking of misuse/mispronunciation, the third word in the previous sentence doesn't have a B in it!

The other one I hate it irregardless.  That's not a word.  You mean to say "regardless" or "irrespective".  The prefix "ir" means without, so "irregardless" decodes to "without a lack of regard", essentially a double negative.  The thing that really drives me nuts about it is I often feel people use it to try and sound smart.
 

My health is impacted by my lack of a proper diet.

KeithP wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

My biggest might be "impacted" used to refer to the past tense of "impact".  The issue is that "impacted" is an adjective, not a verb.  You can have an "impacted" tooth, but the asteroid cannot be described as having "impacted" Earth.  The asteroid made impact on (or upon) Earth.  I hear supposedly educated people use it wrong all the time.  And speaking of misuse/mispronunciation, the third word in the previous sentence doesn't have a B in it!

The other one I hate it irregardless.  That's not a word.  You mean to say "regardless" or "irrespective".  The prefix "ir" means without, so "irregardless" decodes to "without a lack of regard", essentially a double negative.  The thing that really drives me nuts about it is I often feel people use it to try and sound smart.
 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless

That is impertievable.  That's a contraction of impertinent and inconceivable.  Now apparently all that has to happen to make that a real word is for numbskulls to keep using it for enough time.  In common parlance a posi may be a limited slip differential in any vehicle, but we all know that don't make it right. 

Greg B wrote:

If it's hanging lose off your car, you may loose it going down the road. 
You do realize that is wrong, right?

Favorite Missouri speak:    Warsh the dishes.

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

MS wrote:

MS wrote:

Does anybody know the difference between LOOSE and LOSE ??

I see this in here all the time. People write Loose when they mean lose.

On that desert vs dessert one, I heard a hint when I was a kid on how to remember it.
Strawberry Shortcake has two S’s in it and is a deSSert.

I remember one of my teachers  saying a hint for principal vs principle when when talking about our Principal at the school it ends in PAL cause he is our Pal 

 
Aww...

So, can we all agree to post using the correct words?

If you’re posting and find that your word is incorrect, don’t lose your mind, and don’t let the wrong word get loose and wind up on the forum. Go get some strawberry shortcake dessert in preparation for your drive across the desert. Proper spelling is a sign of intelligence.  Improper spelling being an indicator of lack thereof. It is the principle of the thing. Make your elementary school principal proud that they actually taught you something

Do it right when you write it.

Best speller of the year will win a coupon for a free Jack-in-the-box taco.

My elementary school principal was a jerk.
In this day and age he would be charged with child abuse.

MS wrote:

So, can we all agree to post using the correct words?

If you’re posting and find that your word is incorrect, don’t lose your mind, and don’t let the wrong word get loose and wind up on the forum. Go get some strawberry shortcake dessert in preparation for your drive across the desert. Proper spelling is a sign of intelligence. Improper spelling being an indicator of lack thereof. It is the principle of the thing. Make your elementary school principal proud that they actually taught you something

Do it right when you write it.

Best speller of the year will win a coupon for a free Jack-in-the-box taco.

That's "Jack-in-the-Box" Box is a proper noun, and prepositions aren't capitalized. Now where is my taco?
 

MS wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

My biggest might be "impacted" used to refer to the past tense of "impact".  The issue is that "impacted" is an adjective, not a verb.  You can have an "impacted" tooth, but the asteroid cannot be described as having "impacted" Earth.  The asteroid made impact on (or upon) Earth.  I hear supposedly educated people use it wrong all the time.  And speaking of misuse/mispronunciation, the third word in the previous sentence doesn't have a B in it!

The other one I hate it irregardless.  That's not a word.  You mean to say "regardless" or "irrespective".  The prefix "ir" means without, so "irregardless" decodes to "without a lack of regard", essentially a double negative.  The thing that really drives me nuts about it is I often feel people use it to try and sound smart.
 

My health is impacted by my lack of a proper diet.

..........Did you say you were impacted ?!!
 

MS wrote:

Ron68 wrote:

MS wrote:

So, can we all agree to post using the correct words?

If you’re posting and find that your word is incorrect, don’t lose your mind, and don’t let the wrong word get loose and wind up on the forum. Go get some strawberry shortcake dessert in preparation for your drive across the desert. Proper spelling is a sign of intelligence. Improper spelling being an indicator of lack thereof. It is the principle of the thing. Make your elementary school principal proud that they actually taught you something

Do it right when you write it.

Best speller of the year will win a coupon for a free Jack-in-the-box taco.

That's "Jack-in-the-Box" Box is a proper noun, and prepositions aren't capitalized. Now where is my taco?
 

Ron, there is a JIB right down the street from the Bash hotel. You have a pair coming whenever you get here!

Right on! That's dinner taken care of for one night!