When people say something “in and of itself” my mind scrambles to work out why both, and what each means, and I don’t hear anything else they say. It’s a problem in and of itself.
Thread of my semantic pet hates that if I always pointed out would lose me friends. Join in! First up: I hate when people say "tenant", meaning a resident or occupier, when the person means "tenet", meaning a foundation stone of a belief
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I hate when people say "I could care less" when they mean "I could not care less"
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I hate when people say "literally" when they mean "figuratively"
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Describing something as “ass-backwards” (meaning rubbish) - asses are on the back, therefore if they’re facing backwards, the thing itself is likely pointing forwards
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Peruse for skim. Factoid for "fun fact" (although ironically they often turn out to be actual factoids as well).
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"Do you mind...?" questions are funny because people are terribly confused about what a Yes or No response means.
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'Refute' for 'deny'.
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Nauseated != nauseous
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Wow doesn’t it?
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Pacific or pacifically instead of specific or specifically gggrrrr
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