What is your pet peeve in 2024?

SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 97 points –

Mine is people using are instead of our. I hear this all the time from social media, news reporters, and I see in in writing. Instead of our, they use are as if they forgot the word our exists.

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"are" is a perfectly valid pronunciation of "our" I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as "are", on the other hand does feel wrong.

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