Erik Gets Pretentious: Ten More Words People Need To Stop Misusing

Certain things drive me nuts.

Many of those things involve people misusing words.

I'm ready to throw whatever I'm holding at someone who uses the phrase "I feel nauseous."  The correct phrase is "nauseated."  You feel nauseated.  Unless you're actively making other people feel sick.

You monster.

"So, like, we feel nauseated?"  "No, in your cases, stick to the old way."

So let's look at more words people really need to stop misusing and confusing.  Yes, there will probably be more than ten words, but that's because you need to know what you're confusing a word with.

Erik Gets Pretentious: Ten Words People Really Need To Stop Using Incorrectly

Anybody who knows me knows that I can get rather...obnoxious, we'll say, about how people use certain words.  For instance, I tend to always grit my teeth when I hear people say "I'm going to lay down," when they clearly mean "lie down."

Though I guess they could be planning on spreading feathers everywhere.

It drives me nuts that "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing, that nobody remembers the correct usage of "whom," and that the semicolon appears to have suffered a painful death in today's writings.

So, here I'm going to share ten examples of words I really, really wish people would use as they're defined, not how the masses tend to "think" they should be used.