Using "good" for "well": Man, you did good. (blech)

^^ and speaking of "well," using "well" as a filler.

"um" is bad enough, but dragging out "welllllllllll" when you've got nothing to say, or to prove a point is obnox.

A teacher at my job did this yesterday. I wanted to flick her in the back of the head and say "Stop telling that boy he did GOOD, we're supposed to be helping him improve his grammar!"

My 10th grade English teach did that all the time!:rolleyes:

Just saw this article in the Dallas Morning News:

"Grammatical Errors on Signs Become a Regualar Occurrence"

It is enough to make anyone cringe.

Well, it's possible in the Delta Gamma sense to Do Good, but I don't think that's what you all mean.

It wasn't praise for humanitarian efforts, I bet.

I cringe when I hear alreaty instead of already!
One thing that seems popular is adding 'ly' or 'y' to everything. IE "she just seems so mally"

To a previous post, when I started my job as a barista, I said expresso. I was ridiculed till I pronounced the word correctly. I now cringe when I hear it pronounced incorrectly.

Misplaced modifiers:
"I only want the pink one." It should be, "I want ONLY the pink one."
You don't only want, you want only...

who, whom, subject and object people!

Nucular instead of nuclear.

Pacific
meaning a certain thing.
Example today, at our twice-monthly staff meeting: "..what pacificially are we supposed to do with these applications?"

I died a little on the inside.

lose vs. loose, as in I'm going to loose my mind if I don't get these shoelaces lose.

Ahhhhh...

And supposively...my SIL does it, and she is a teacher!

Supposively, huh? ;)

What I get tired of is all the people who come to GC asking for "advise." I mean, I know we all type too fast sometimes, but it amazes me how often this one pops up.