I missed a bunch of the grammar peeves but I've got one that sometimes gets my goat...
could of, would of, should of
or
could HAVE WOULD HAVE etc.
Oh man, that one seriously gets me as well!! It's basic grammar people!

I missed a bunch of the grammar peeves but I've got one that sometimes gets my goat...
could of, would of, should of
or
could HAVE WOULD HAVE etc.
I missed a bunch of the grammar peeves but I've got one that sometimes gets my goat...
could of, would of, should of
or
could HAVE WOULD HAVE etc.
Oh man, that one seriously gets me as well!! It's basic grammar people!![]()
I missed a bunch of the grammar peeves but I've got one that sometimes gets my goat...
could of, would of, should of
or
could HAVE WOULD HAVE etc.
seeing 'suppose to' and 'use to' really grinds my gears as well.
Even the English are smart enough to have abandoned English weights and measures in favor of something that resembles a logical system.
bzzzt. wrong.
touché, but i suspect you know what i meant.
The entire English language hacks me off. Why SHOULD there be three freakin' ways to spell "there"? And NONE of them follow any user-friendly phonetic rules! Why should "gh" or "ph" make the "f" sound? Why not just use a dang "f"? It ain't broken! It's not like a sensible, logical language is impossible; look at Spanish. And then the people who are actually interested in picking through this unneccessarily complicated cesspit have the nerve to look down their noses at the people who realized from the beginning that it's all a crock of shit.
If "there/their" was the lone anomoly in an otherwise consistent and practical linguistic system, I would concede. But consider "duel/dual", "I/eye", "dear/deer", "brake/break", "male/mail", "rap/wrap", "or/ore/oar", "wood/would" (And wtf is the "l" doing in "would"?! Being extraneous and confusing, that's what!) There are dozens of the damn/dam things. Then there are the ones that go the other way, like "bass (fish)/bass (low tone)", and "wind (air current)/wind (to turn)". If a word is spelled the same way as another word, it should, logically, sound the same, every time, no exception. Words that are spelled differently should sound different, every time, no exceptions. All phonetic rules should be easy to follow and should apply to every word without exception. English is needlessly difficult. No defending it, really. It doesn't even sound melodic, like Italian. It's a laborious and cumbersome language with little redeeming value other than it's the one I know.Well, technically there are only two words that sound like "there" - That one, and also "Their." That's not really so much to remember, is it?