Uppity peasant, correcting his Lordship’s grammar. I not surprised that it all didn’t end well for the lower classes.
I still get annoyed when people, usually journalists, don’t use ‘begging the question’ and ‘refute’ correctly and there’s the infuriating ‘green grocer’s apostrophe’.
My pet peeve is when people use “fewer” with uncountable nouns. As peeves go, you might think it’s not very good: nobody ever says “fewer stuff” or “fewer luggage”. But when they do – ha ha! – I’ll be there, ready to feel superior.
hilarious! I do that one all the time. I haven’t been struck for it.
Uppity peasant, correcting his Lordship’s grammar. I not surprised that it all didn’t end well for the lower classes.
I still get annoyed when people, usually journalists, don’t use ‘begging the question’ and ‘refute’ correctly and there’s the infuriating ‘green grocer’s apostrophe’.
My pet peeve is when people use “fewer” with uncountable nouns. As peeves go, you might think it’s not very good: nobody ever says “fewer stuff” or “fewer luggage”. But when they do – ha ha! – I’ll be there, ready to feel superior.
Language Log has a lot to say on the less/fewer peeve: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1333