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That's a good one; commonly mis-used.

Really? the membrane which surrounds the lungs and becomes inflamed in pleurisy?

To clarify. Glyph is a general term. A "hieroglpyh" is a glyph with religious or sacred meaning, such as those found on Ancient Egyptian temples and pyramids.

Not a spoken thing but written, but the almost total death of punctuation! Have none of them heard of:

The teacher said the boy is a fool.

and

The teacher, said the boy, is a fool.

Classic example:

'I helped my uncle jack off a horse' and 'I helped my Uncle, Jack, off a horse'

Don't get me started... in particular, the misuse or omission of an apostrophe.

The ones that get to me most are the use and misuse of their, there, they're, your and you're, along with of and off. I hate the use of "text speak" with a passion. I don't even use it in text messages. I don't think it should be used on things such as Forums, emails etc.

The "drowning man lol" annoys me too.

As for speech, I get irritated by the "axe" and "axed" instead of ask and asked, along with words beginning with, or containing, "th" that are pronounced as if they start with an "f", e.g. fank, fick, fink and anyfink.

I have probably put a "," in that last paragraph that does not need to be there. If so, I apologise.

Would that not be "I feel nauseous after watching the shark tear off a mans limb" or "I was feeling nauseated"?

That's crept in with our multi culture, it's mainly pronounced like that by Black people, grass roots African here it a lot in America and is creeping in here also but alot of it is down to hoodies trying to talk gangsta dawg, the give a way is when Tim Westwood says it - NOT COOL

Nauseated = when you feel sick
Nauseous = when something causes nausea

So even though it sounds wrong you'd feel nauseated after watching the shark tear off a mans limb.

Well, lanugage is always changing and evolving (or devolving in some cases) look at how different modern english is to "ye olde" days, I actually wouldn't be suprised if in a few hundred years a lot of the things that annoy you lot end up in the dictionary.

And of course there is the oh-so-common: "I could of..." when it should be "I could have..." (or "I could've...")

Sorry for the double post but...



Oh dear... haha!!

You mean ITS edge. "It's" is the abbreviated form of "it is". My own pet hate is apostrophe misuse. See below and take note:
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

Interesting topic

Rated.