I try not to have pet peeves, because a person who is peeved about things is not pleasant to be around. Lighten up, people! The little quirks of life are no big deal. <\/p>\n
But there are things that I find odd, or curious. <\/p>\n
For example, why does someone send an email asking what such and so is, when they could get the answer from a search engine in as much time as it takes to send the email? It doesn’t bother me (or if it does, I need to get over myself), but I find it odd. <\/p>\n
Why do people have a difficult time with that and which, affect and effect, assure, insure and ensure? It only takes a minute to get it right, but people can go on struggling for years. <\/p>\n
What would you call this sort of thing? I reject “pet peeve,” because being peeved should be reserved for things that matter. There should be a word or phrase that functions like “pet peeve,” but simply expresses that you find it odd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I try not to have pet peeves, because a person who is peeved about things is not pleasant to be around. Lighten up, people! The little quirks of life are no big deal. But there are things that I find odd, or curious. For example, why does someone send an email asking what such and … Continue reading “A downgraded “pet peeve””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}