words that make you grit your teeth

[LBTC]

Driving home from Colorado a couple days ago I found a public radio station and the guy was doing a show about Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and speaker and author ... and a primary theme of the show was the incredible importance of reading and education.
The guy doing the show, however, kept referring to "John Hopkins" hospital. GRRRRRR~!~! Education is important but you can't get the name of the hospital right? Talk about sending the message "Education is important - but we're going to be hopelessly ignorant anyway!"

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

[SadieKate]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

That would be Johns Hopkins.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/

[SadieKate]

And yet the F-word was a good old Elizabethan verb!

At the moment, I am angered by any word used in a pre-recorded phone message. Both our home phone line and my business line are on the Do No Call Registry and yet the friggin' idiots call them anyway.

Oh yeah, and "very unique".

I actually like word play. My English teacher dad always used oderarmdeunderant and irrigerated the lawn.

[Zen]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

Maybe that's a cheap knock-off or the walk-in clinic at the drug store

[SadieKate]

Think of how much money they save by providing only one John . . . . . .

[roadie gal]

Wow, this really set off a firestorm...

I thought of another one that makes me want to scream: disrespect used as a VERB. It's an adverb, damn it. "He treated me with disrespect" or "He treated me disrespectfully" NOT "He disrespected me". AAaaaaarrggh!

[Geonz]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

It's Johns Hopkins... I'm sure there are sites google will find that get it wrong, too (or, *if* there were a plain ol' john hopkins, then the guy had the wrong hospital.).

It's the errors aand variations that make the language unclear and confusing that bother me (so I prefer tenacity to stick-to-it-ive-ness, too).