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Pronouncing familiar as fermiliar.

I understand it's controversial, but people who don't put the final comma in a list before "and" which then groups the final two items as one erroneously.

Also, when people put a space before a comma. I'm not sure why they do that, but it's cemented in some people's brains who speak fluent English from childhood onward.

Resistance to shifting grammar annoys me.

Educated linguists know really well that language changes over time. It is natural and expected. There are also living valid variations of grammar outside standardized "book" grammar.

People who are zero educated just go with whatever.

People who are half educated juuuust enough to be smartasses but not enough to be smart will say shit like "I don't know, can you?" in response to "Can I go to the bathroom". Or pretend an emphasized negation - aka double negative - can be interpreted as a positive.

Mine is petty, but is due to having an internal voice when I read. When commonly used words are misspelled, like using loose instead of lose, I 'hear' it pronounced as spelled and it drives me nuts. Homophones like their and there don't annoy me nearly as much.

I also mispronounce words learned from reading that don't follow normal phonetic patterns that I'm used to, like melee, so I do understand why people mix up loose and lose. It is still painful to read.

A wall of text with no punctuation.

Abberant apostrophes (and missing ones).

Sentences that miss out words for no reason: e.g. "A couple things" vs. "A couple of things".

Confusing envy and jealousy.

The above is a personal list; I don't get judgemental about others' grammar but I do cringe internally.

When people pretend they cannot understand a sentence becuse of a grammatical error.

If you honestly can't parse out what a person is trying to say because they left out a comma or misspelled a word or God forbid used the wrong "their" perhaps you need to work on reading skills.