Grammar that makes you cringe

[Pingu]

Re Peeve, Tees who sets crosswords in the Independent had a clue last year: Vex Gove (5)

Took me a lot of head-scratching to crack that one.

 

[citoyen]

Headline in the Guardian today:

“50 best summer dresses to buy, rent or thrift”

[spesh]

I suspect the latter term is being used as a catch-all for the sources of second-hand clothing  - charity shops, eBay/Gumtree et al or sites such as https://thrift.plus/ , but yes, it looks horrible and smacks of creeping Americanisation.

[citoyen]

The intended meaning is obvious enough. That doesn’t mean I have to like it.

[Tim Hall]

The intended meaning is obvious enough. That doesn’t mean I have to like it.

I'm guessing the meaning of the second term isn't this one either

 

And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;

although it could be.

[hellymedic]

There is a part of Bristol called Troopers Hill. Or is it Troopers' Hill? Or maybe Trooper's Hill? The answer is predictably yes, yes and yes:

 ,  and 

Elsewhere in these parts, is an Audax named Drover's Roads.
I object...

[nicknack]

"Get go" or should it be "get-go"?

Whatever.

Just fucking stop it.

"Start" or "beginning" are perfect good English words. Use them.

[Mr Larrington]

🎵
Get up and go 🎶
Get up and go 🎶
Get up and go back home!

[Cudzoziemiec]

I've got to put myself in this thread. Well, vocabulary not grammar, but close enough. I arrived early for a hot date (weeding an allotment) so texted the allotment owner that I had "underestimated the time it would take to get here". I had, of course, overestimated it. 

(I went on to compound the stupid by looking in the wrong shed. "The watering can's not in the shed." "Are you sure?" "Nothing there, see." "That's not our shed.")

[liam_whippet]

 

"Does your dog bite?"

asked Clouseau-ziemiec, yesterday.