RE: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

["James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>]

>Char James Tanny wrote:

> Now I may be the only person who has that particular pet peeve, but as
> writers I know we all have them. My question for the list is this: what
> is your personal pet peeve of a misused, misspelled, or improper word
> choice, and what draconian measures would you impose on the education
> system to purge that error out of every grade-school student in any
> English classroom?

> Not that any actually make me sick...just cringe ;-) In my case, it's
> a tie between "amount/number" and "fewer/less".


I was wondering if this was going to come up.  Personally, I cringe when
someone says "butt naked", instead of "buck naked".  

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