Little Language Pet Peeves

On a lighter note...

These things bother me a lot more than they probably should.

WHY does practically the whole world pronounce sherbet as if Ernie's agreeing with his room-mate? Only one 'r' in that word, people!

I JUST saw a commercial for some store or other (forgive me, I don't pay much attention to people who are trying to get me to spend money) and they were having a sale. A BOGO sale: "Buy one, get one half off". That's not how BOGO works. BOGO means 'buy one, get one'. As in free.

SPEAKING of free, I was offered a free gift the other day. Aren't all gifts free? Isn't that the definition?

ANOTHER redundancy: "at the present time". As opposed to what? The present space?

A QUICK GRAMMAR LESSON: They're grinding their teeth over there at all the people who don't know the difference between they're, their and there.

LET'S JUST get rid of apostrophes entirely, shall we? It would make life ever so much easier. "We were out of dog food, so we fed him the cats."

MEMO TO 570 NEWS: You say you have a "weather guarantee". If your forecasted high temperature for the day is off by more than two degrees either way, somebody wins money. How is that a weather guarantee, anyway? What I want to know is: can you guarantee me it won't rain today?

IRREGARDLESS isn't a word. CAN NOT is two words.

WHEREFORE does not mean "where". It means "why". Juliet knew perfectly well where Romeo was.

"FROM WHENCE" is redundant. "Whence" is sufficient. I don't know whence came this redundancy.

I know the English language is constantly evolving, and most of the time I'm okay with that. But every now and again someone says something barbaric in front of me, or I spot a blatant grammatical error (more often than not it's in a business communication of some kind...pathetic!) and I just want to scream...