Well, if you are on social media, the most misspelled word I've seen is "sell", used in the context of "I have some clothes for sell." And don't even start me on your/you're.

We should all comment with what we've seen as the funniest misspelled words! LOL

Dinning (dining) room

I'm more amused with new made-up words, and G W Bush was good at that. The first one that comes to mind is misunderestimated.

A friend of mine uses the word "pestimistic" to indicate when someone is simultaneously being pessimistic and a pest.

While I very much like the show Love It or List It, David Visentin has a few quirky phrases that make me doubt his competency. For example, he will call a dining room that is completely closed off with four walls a "dining room area". He likes to add the word "area" frequently when it is not necessary or is inappropriate.

A lot of people use the term "dining room table" when they do not even have a dining room, and in the furniture industry, we use the term "dining table". A dining room table can be any table that happens to be in a dining room. The same with dining chairs - some people say "dining room chair" whether they have a dining room or not. They may have a dining area without having a specific dining room. In the furniture business, we say "dining side chair" and "dining arm chair" but never "dining room chair". I'm not sure where this comes from, but it always sounds odd to me or a bit affected, although not necessarily wrong, and a lot of our clients use these terms. David will also often say "living room area" for a simple room with four walls that I would call a room instead of an area. I think he thinks it makes the rooms sound more expansive when the word "area" is added, but to me it just sounds inaccurate, unless the room is especially large. I have more respect for real estate agents who use correct terms - I'm not really concerned about non-professionals and the terms they choose to use.

Using the word "between" when the correct word is "among".

An item is distributed among a group of people. Between refers to two people. Marriage vows, for example, are exchanged between two people being united in marriage.

I hate bad grammar. Not in the sense of the construction of a sentence, but as Raye mentioned. Your welcome! grrrrr. etc etc.

Dinning room, yes. Also a 1-person couch/sofa, when they're describing an armchair.

And...never in my life will I "reach out" to a person.

Farther (physical distance) instead of further (to a greater extent)

Sight, site, cite

I seen instead of I saw

Ax instead of ask (spoken language)

Irregardless

Many non-standard regional uses that one sees and hears. And often reads in this forum.

Using "myself" instead of "me", usually used in conjunction with another person, such as "This message is from John and myself". Another one I love is spelling huge on signs, usually, such as "HUGH SALE".

Oh, and another phrase I dislike is "looking to", as in "planning". I'm sure it's not actually incorrect, but a phrase that makes me cringe.

I say "ya all"....it bothers some people...

In American English, the quotation marks include the following punctuation, if any, like "this." In British English, the quotation marks exclude the following punctuation, if any, like "this".

Oh I despise, "me and her".

I think ‘utilize’ is very much over used and mis-used.

Ditto what Elmer and Phyllis wrote.

What bothers me is poor spoken grammar from newscasters or actors. I assume that writers know the English Language so why not use it and make your actors follow the script.

Thank you for the correction, HotRod. I was taught the opposite in school.

Impactful and adulting are two of the poorest word choices I've heard recently. An impact can be great or small and one can act like or be an adult.

What, no hate for apostrophes yet? There used to be an office building here with a legal firm on the top floor. There was a professionally made sign, in a fancy script, attached to the outside of the building. It said "Flotsam and Jetsam, Attorney's at Law." Attorney's what?

(I don't remember their actual names.)

Yes, AOK!!! The latest fad, craze or just stupid thing of putting apostrophes when pluralizing. When did all that happen?????

> What bothers me is poor spoken grammar from newscasters or actors.

A recent sport obstacle competition TV show is called "The Titan Games". One of the announcers for the show consistently elides the 't' from the middle of the word "titan", pronouncing it as "ti-an". You would think that one clear requirement for an announcer of a show would be that they are able to pronounce the name of the show.

Note, I'm deliberating violating the quotation mark rule that Hot Rod posted, because I consider that rule arbitrary and pedantic. And at least according to this website: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-use-quotation-marks the rule was invented and promulgated by type-setters whose goal was preventing the small metal pieces of type for the period or comma from breaking off the end of the sentence. Since I rarely use cast metal type in any of my online communications I consider this rule anachronistic and passé.

The plural of son-in-law is sons-in-law, not son-in-laws. Same for power of attorney and other similar terms.

There is an incorrect Midwestern use of the word "set" that's grating to hear or read but I can't remember an example to use.

It would never look right to me to put the period inside the quotation mark if it occurs at the end of the sentence. I went to a very strict school and that was how it was done. The period went at the end of the sentence even if the sentence ended with apostrophes or quotation marks. I guess I will continue to be "wrong". LOL

Where are you at? Where's the dog at? Where did you park the car at? Where do you work at?

An internet friend told about one of her friends who used the word "vagenda" for agenda. I thought it was so funny that I started using it to when asking Jody, "what's on your vagenda?" But caught myself saying it one time in front of someone else, and hoped they really didn't think I didn't know the correct word.

Had a friend who used to say condomoanium for condominium. She was a person who was always trying to impress people with how well off she was or how many important people she knew. She was telling me one time about someone she knew who was "violently wealthy". I thought that was an "interesting" term.

I remember another, I've also seen it here:

Last week, my friend was suppose to ....... (wrong)

instead of

Last week my friend was supposed to...... (correct)

Marilyn: the word "vagenda" is hilarious! I am going to have to use that in conversation with DH today and see if he catches it.

I knew a woman who pronounced "mausoleum" to rhyme with "linoleum" because they were spelled similarly. She corrected me very sharply. I let it pass.

I figured I could correct everyone's grammatical mistakes or I could actually have friends.

Rhizo, my DH does the "at" thing. Drives me insane, but after 36 years together, I just stay quiet and let my ears bleed.

I had a coworker who referred to her back doctor as her choirpractor.

I've told this story here before. Our plant manager was leaving, and they wanted to take a picture of all of the employees with a big banner. They had the banner professionally made at a print shop, and when it came in they unrolled it in our hallway. It said "Good By Bob." When I pointed out the spelling error, there was a long pause. Then they said that was because the banner wasn't long enough and they couldn't fit all the letters. Riiiiight. It was too late to do anything, so they used it. What a stupid picture.