Comments on: Language Peeves

By: David Rodger

David Rodger — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:20:18 +0000

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!

By: Ian Kjos

Ian Kjos — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:50:19 +0000

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.

By: Jeff Purcell

Jeff Purcell — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:14:12 +0000

How about:
“these ones” instead of “these”

Causes my toes to curl in disgust.

By: Michal Stankoviansky

Michal Stankoviansky — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:46:59 +0000

…and “definately” instead of “definitely”

By: Derek Scruggs

Derek Scruggs — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:28:01 +0000

A few more:

“administrate” instead of “administer”
“anyways” instead of “anyway”
“irregardless” instead of “regardless”