words most often used incorrectly

[HaphAsSard]

Glottal stops bug me too.

Also, people who say oways instead of always.

Just because English has a lot of silent letters doesn't mean you can randomly choose which ones that are.

No I mean the glottal stops that are prominent in certain accents. Watch any video with Ricky Gervaise. He doesn't pronounce the letter "T" unless the word begins with it. Instead he'll make the sound where the T should be in the back of his throat.

Or certain American accents - for instance people who use a glottal stop in the phrase, "Oh no s/he dih-unt," instead of the letter "D".

As you pointed out that's just accent, and hardly random.
(And believe me, I'm no fan of glottal stops: it's not pleasant to come to England when your first language is not English, and realise teachers forgot to mention most t's you see on the written page are just passé, and you have to develop an ear for that before your year abroad is finished...)

 

[Boristhespyder]

Years ago I listened to a good natured discussion between a gentleman from Georgia and one from Maine.
Maine: you Southerners never say the g at the end of a word.

Georgia: and you Yankees never say the r at the end of a word. What are you savin all those r's for?

Maine: Retiahment.

 

[Richland123]

The phrase "Drive Through Window" or "Drive Thru Window" is incorrect since you don't actually drive through a window. The phrase would be more correct as "Drive Past Window".

 

[Tom Bomb]

Race

 

[Richland123]

Restaurants that use the phrase "Home Made Food" are incorrect since the food is made in the restaurant and not in somebody's home. The correct phrase is "Home Style Food".

 

[PillO]

Restaurants that use the phrase "Home Made Food" are incorrect since the food is made in the restaurant and not in somebody's home. The correct phrase is "Home Style Food".

I always wonder about "Food like Mom used to make". Well, I'm sure that they don't know my Mom and the Moms of all the other diners, so they must mean the cook's Mom. And for all I know, the cook's Mom could be a lousy cook. So why would I want to eat there?

 

[D M C]

Restaurants that use the phrase "Home Made Food" are incorrect since the food is made in the restaurant and not in somebody's home. The correct phrase is "Home Style Food".

Are Whoppers home made food? BK is the home of the Whopper.

 

[Richland123]

Are Whoppers home made food? BK is the home of the Whopper.

That's because nobody would want to make them at home.

 

[Richland123]

How many times have you heard somebody say they have "hunger pains"?

The term is actually "hunger pangs".

 

[BioDriver]

"That really aggravated me."

 

[Stumbo]

The phrase "Drive Through Window" or "Drive Thru Window" is incorrect since you don't actually drive through a window. The phrase would be more correct as "Drive Past Window".

I would agree if it were spelled Drive-Thru Window, Drive-Thru be the adjective describing the window.

It's a Drive Thru lane with a window.

While we're at it, "through" is
preferred, not "thru". "Thru" is like slang.

For business purposes, I would have chosen "thru" just to have a smaller sign.

 

[Richland123]

I would agree if it were spelled Drive-Thru Window, Drive-Thru be the adjective describing the window.

It's a Drive Thru lane with a window.

While we're at it, "through" is
preferred, not "thru". "Thru" is like slang.

For business purposes, I would have chosen "thru" just to have a smaller sign.

And, when did night become nite?

There is a Rite-Aid Pharmacy (hey, there is another spelling change from right to rite) near my office that has a sign that says Drive Thru on the top and somebody put letters underneath that read flu shots available now. So, when you read it all together, it states "drive thru flu shots available now". I said if I drive up to the window, roll down my car window, and stick my arm out, they will give me a flu shot.

 

[Boristhespyder]

And, when did night become nite?

There is a Rite-Aid Pharmacy (hey, there is another spelling change from right to rite) near my office that has a sign that says Drive Thru on the top and somebody put letters underneath that read flu shots available now. So, when you read it all together, it states "drive thru flu shots available now". I said if I drive up to the window, roll down my car window, and stick my arm out, they will give me a flu shot.

But you have to follow a specific speed so they know how much to lead you while firing the needle.

 

[HaphAsSard]

And, when did night become nite?

There is a Rite-Aid Pharmacy (hey, there is another spelling change from right to rite) near my office that has a sign that says Drive Thru on the top and somebody put letters underneath that read flu shots available now. So, when you read it all together, it states "drive thru flu shots available now". I said if I drive up to the window, roll down my car window, and stick my arm out, they will give me a flu shot.

Sure you mean a flough shot.

 

[D M C]

Sure you mean a flough shot.

Drive inthruenza shot.

 

[D M C]

It's dribs and drabs, not drips and drabs.

 

[Tom Bomb]

It's lithsp, not lisp.

 

[biguglyman]

Who axed you?

 

[Boristhespyder]

People are always misconscruing what I say.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I'm seeing "of" used incorrectly a lot lately.

should've, could've, & would've are not forms of "of"

w/o the contraction they are should have, could have, and would have