Using the wrong word

[Vienna_70]

Should of.

Could of.

Would of.

It's fucking have you thick, illiterate, backwards, simple, uneducated, ignorant cunts!

(Sorry, really bothers me.)

Our English teacher pointed out to us, in the first year of comprehensive school, that there is no such verb as "to of".

 

[Vienna_70]

towing the line, and the classic pre madonna

Is that 1982 and before?

 

[Vienna_70]

People who say 'I' when they should say 'me'.

Me after a preposition?

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

11 pages in and no mention of Hilda Bacon…

 

[Vienna_70]

People (usually radio One DJs) who say "the man off of the telly". Capital punishment is the only solution.

Twatterface says it.

"The ball came back off of the post."

I could fucking strangle him every time he says it.

 

[kaz7]

Mine is more a whole sentence not just one word , fired off before brain can engage usually

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Draw
Drawer

You draw a picture.
You store your spatula in a kitchen drawer.

 

[BrianW]

I regret that 'whom' is rarely seen these days. I think it's because it's difficult to decide when to use it.

Answer, when it's the object of the sentence.

'Who gave the ball to the boy?'

'The boy received the ball from whom?'

 

[1961_vintage]

I quite like spoonerisms.

Stuck Farmer for example.

 

[mancityvstoke]

one fail swoop