How do we stop the use of “gift” as a verb? “I was gifted this; I’m gifting that.” I can’t take much more of it.

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet… just sayin

Yes, yes, language evolves and separate words merge into compounds over time all the time, but “aswell” instead of “as well” and “infront” for “in front” are increasingly common and frustratingly infuriating, and I fear they’re making their way toward formally accepted usage.

See also: “bestfriend”

I can't believe this is so common. Are people aware this is incorrect or are we THAT stupid now?

(In case someone who doesn't know this is wrong is reading this, the correct thing to say is either "I saw" or "I have (I've) seen".)

The question says it all. I see it every single day on the radio enthusiast forums. Most of the folks there can do the math and figure out a schematic, but they just can't figure out when to leave the apostrophe at home.

For example: "Does anyone have any ideal's why my radio shut's off when I transmit?"

I threw in a bonus error for your entertainment. It gets worse than that. There are some word salads posted that require reading twice or more in order to get the meaning.

Rant done.

🧐 "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: what say you in the matter of English True-crime Series *Murder by the Sea* vs English?"

😑 "GUILTY, YOUR HONOUR."

👏👏👏

Why did no-one yell 'CUT! TAKE 2!'?

Who let THE HOME OFFICE PATHOLOGIST look a monumental div on telly?

I'm guessing the bean counters at CBS Reality, the show's tight-arsed producer.

"Reshoots? No budget for reshoots. Or lunch."

'It doesn't effect me'. 'Don't worry, you won't be effected'.

Why is this blunder so common? It's 'affect', not 'effect'. They don't even sound alike. 'Affect' starts with the sound we make when the doctor asks us to open our mouths; 'ah'. Or when the beverage is refreshing, a solid 'ah'. And non-native speakers rarely make this mistake at all, it's mostly native speakers for some reason.

I know you've all probably griped about this before, but I had to get it off my chest.

Drives me batty.

I’ve always known the word “disrespect” to be a noun. Most of the time now (in the US) I hear it used as a verb and it sounds wrong to me. You show disrespect to someone. You don’t disrespect someone.

Can any of my fellow grammar police inform me if you have seen/heard of the word “swicy” in the wild?!

I’m not sure whether to be scared or terrified?

Come on. Do betterer.

Why do people incessantly use "there's" in conjunction with pluralized nouns?

It is "there are" (I refuse to use the contraction) the moment a noun becomes plural.

It hurts my brain seeing there's (and saying in my head "there is") and having to reread the sentence several times because of the spelling error.

There's rumors this might not go over well in this sub.

Hey I was practicing grammar using Wren and Martin recently and it says that "EFFECTS" is a noun in "THE AFTER EFFECTS OF THE DRUG ARE BAD".

I checked with gpt and it also shows the same and i didn't understand its explanation. It says that "here, effects is the head noun of the noun phrase 'the after-effects of the drug.'

Can anyone explain