Your pet peeves

[lady_zana]

No one can seem to pronounce my name either, it is Eva, Like the name Eve-ah. I get called eva, ava, and sometimes even eve, evie, ev-ie, lots of strange things. It's not even that uncommon!
My real pet peave though is when people stick extra apostraphies in places they DON'T belong, like, "In the 1970's..." or, "My sister knows her ABC's..."

BOP! BOP! This is me, bopping myself on the head for being dumb. I was about to agree with you when scrolling down, I noticed I placed an apostraphie in the wrong spot in my previous post! I put "cousin's" rather than "cousins" like I should have. I went back and corrected it now. BOP! BOP!

I do agree with you though. I really hate it out in public like on signs and other things. I just wonder why people don't spell check before posting signs and ads where people can see them.

[kimboe]

(sp? its when a Frenchman & native american indian have a baby, that baby is Matee

King2005 it's spelled Meti

[binka_nugget]

My biggest pet peeve is when people mix up your, you're and there, their and they're.

[Roxyluvsme13]

When people say my name wrong/spell it wrong. It's Bri-Anna just spelled Briana. I get called Brieyonna, and grr I hate it. I can understand the spelling, but if its right in front of people and they STILL spell it wrong...

[Jessika]

My biggest pet peeve is when people mix up your, you're and there, their and they're.

I was justttt going to post about that

I would say its and it's too but even I get those mixed up (besides, aren't they backwards from "proper" grammar? Like, "It's a nice day out" and "look at its tail!")

[finn's mom]

I was justttt going to post about that

I would say its and it's too but even I get those mixed up (besides, aren't they backwards from "proper" grammar? Like, "It's a nice day out" and "look at its tail!")

Aren't you supposed to put an apostrophe there, too? "look at it's tail!" hahahaha, now i'm confused. I thought if it was possessive, you put an apostrophe...like Jason's hat or it's tail or the car's engine...or maybe the its/it's thing is the one that that rule doesn't apply to. I think my niece (she is a language arts teacher) told me about that once...I'll have to ask her again.

[K9soul]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction. Also it's a pronoun when used that way and you don't say "her's" you say hers. Hard to explain . But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

[finn's mom]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction. Also it's a pronoun when used that way and you don't say "her's" you say hers. Hard to explain . But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

Ok, that's what I was thinking...but, it gets weird. I remember that exception to the rule now, as far as possessive words using the apostrophe. I'll have to try to remember that it doesn't apply to pronouns. Thanks, man, I knew someone would be able to explain it, I shoulda know it would be you!

[Suki Wingy]

But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

Exactly. I saw a sign at Dairy Queen the other day that said, "Cake's to make your day special!" or something like that but it was written on the professional poster "cake's"

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction.

Because no other word in the English language has two meanings.

[Jessika]

Aren't you supposed to put an apostrophe there, too? "look at it's tail!" hahahaha, now i'm confused. I thought if it was possessive, you put an apostrophe...like Jason's hat or it's tail or the car's engine...or maybe the its/it's thing is the one that that rule doesn't apply to. I think my niece (she is a language arts teacher) told me about that once...I'll have to ask her again.

See, that's what I'm talking about. It's backwards lol

But yeah k9soul explained it, it's just hard to remember which way it goes sometimes!

I probably made a mistake even using it in this post LOL