OT - HUGE pet peeve of mine!

I've noticed allot of this lately...

Please understand that I'm just venting, but I will provide the following information:

There are three spellings of the word "there, their or they're"

They all mean different things, but sound the same.
What frustrates me is they are used incorrectly all the time!

"There" - is used to refer to a place, either concrete or abstract "Do you see that building over there?"

"Their" - is used to indicate possession It is a possessive adjective and indicates that a particular noun belongs to them. "Their kids are coming over for dinner"

"They're" - is a contraction of the words they and are It can never be used as a modifier, only as a subject (who or what does the action) and verb (the action itself).  "Hurry!  They're closing the store at 9pm tonight"

I hope that this helps a bit.

I don't only see these uses here, but just about everywhere that I go online and also I've even seen it in professional publications!

Michael.

I understand your frustration. We all have our peeves....

One of mine are threads where the title say like "Hey guess what I did" and you open it to read and it's says "Read my blog!"
No tell me here while I am on this website reading this one. Give me a link to your blog in your signature and I may read other stuff on it some other time when I am not on this one!

Few feels good to vent :) 



Sher

Yea that's a good one.  I've started seeing that a lot lately!

Michael.

Damn (or is it dam??)as dumb as I (or is it me) am I guess I need to stop posting. I didn't know (or is it no??) we would (or is it wood??) be graded on spelling, grammar and punctuation.  C'ya (or is it see you??) Bob (or is it Bobbie, Robert, Robby???)

I agree with you Bob!!!!

Telisha, sometimes I don't want to go through typing the entire answer when I've done it somewhere else... so at times, I will insert a link to my website.  I try not to say "Hey, look..." and then "visit my blog to find out the answer"...  LOL.  I only  say hey visit my blog to enter my contest, although I KNOW MICHAEL IS NOT COMPLAINING AS HE WON THE FREE CELEBRATE VITAMINS THIS WEEK!  Right Michael?  LOL

Nope, Mel it's not you!!

 Mel, it is SO not you!  I'll just say it:  It's that Ginger chick who i****ting many boards simultaneously, trying to drum up traffic to her blog.  She posts the same teaser on oodles of boards.  She's just blatantly self promoting her blog.  

There's a huge difference between her and you.

You are engaging and informative and helpful.  You're genuine, paying it forward to those of us taking the journey behind you. You may have links, but your sole purpose of being here is not to get more hits for your site.

She might have that pay it forward thing going on, but the vibe I get from her many posts is more of a commercial for herself than really reaching out, like you do.

I could be wrong, but it's just my take!  

HUGS!
Denise

Here is another example but I think it's a funny one. When my boys were growing up we lived close to Old Hickory Dam. One night they were not minding me so I sent them to their room upstairs. They stomped up the steps saying Old Hickory Dam!!!...Old Hickory Dam.!!! They knew that they could say Old Hickory Dam and not get in trouble for it.............LOL

Cheryl

I like to see words used correctly, as well.   I don't freak if they're not, but I do appreciate when they are.

How about its and it's.   The ONLY time you use it's is when it is short for it is.   If you're using it as the possessive of it, you do not use the apostrophe in there.

Dennie