Phil Ringnalda grinds his teeth when people say depreciated instead of deprecated. I know how he feels. The one that bothers me is hearing people say orientated instead of oriented, as in “object orientated.”
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A few more:
“administrate” instead of “administer”
“anyways” instead of “anyway”
“irregardless” instead of “regardless”
…and “definately” instead of “definitely”
How about:
“these ones” instead of “these”
Causes my toes to curl in disgust.
I’ve enough clients that can’t speak English very well at all that simple trip-ups like these cause no stress at all. You have to memory the grammar and the vocabularies, because you will send totally wrong message if you doesn’t use the preposition right place in the.
alternate vs. alternative
Americans don’t seem to know that alternate (as an adjective) actually means “the other”, not “an other”.
Or phrases (all too commonly used by alleged journalists) like “Carlton won their fifth match in as many weeks”. Aside from the perpetrator’s evident inability to distinguish between cardinal and ordinal numbers, one would be very happy if one’s favourite football team won five times in one week!