Examples of Poor Grammar That are Commonly Used by the Well-Spoken. In America, normalcy is used far more often the normality, but 'abnormalcy' isn't a word. I also hear 'irregardless' a lot. Do you

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Examples of Poor Grammar That are Commonly Used by the Well-Spoken. In America, normalcy is used far more often the normality, but 'abnormalcy' isn't a word. I also hear 'irregardless' a lot. Do you know of any other words with a spotty past that have become standard or are in regular use without notice? What is your linguistic pet peeve?

Jun 16, 2013 3:26 PM

Answers · 15

Well... not trying to offend anybody... the word America (or American for that matter to refer to people from the United States. A part from the fact that it is highly offensive for the rest of the people that were born in the same continent it is highly inaccurate. It would be the same mistake as saying "Asians" to refer solely to people from Japan, or "Europeans" referring solely to French. The United States of America ("of" means part not entirety) is only one of the 3 united states in the continent. Mexico is "United States of Mexico and Brazil is "United States of Brazil". The name America comes from an Spaniard named "Amérco Vespucio" who wanted the continent to be one united territory.

June 16, 2013

'Alot' makes me sad. Different to is common in British English. I don't care whether it's different to or from, but different than kills me. =D

June 16, 2013

'There is' used when 'there are' would be grammatically correct. This is very common. Also, I was taught that 'different from' is correct, but many people say 'different to'.

June 16, 2013

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