Here comes the barrage of grievances against regional pronunciations and terms.

GO!

leverage

My boss told us not to worry about a downsizing, because he would continue to work to leverage our skill-sets.
I thought, "screw you."

When adults try to use teenage slang. A 40 year old saying "whatev" is lame.

How you?

Where you at?

Anonymous wrote:Subject - verb disagreement.

+1

Incentivize. I swear this did not used to be a real word. People say it at work all the time though. Spell check used to reject it.

not so annoying but so odd, my MIL says nun instead of non, like nun-refundable and nun-taxable.

Subject - verb disagreement.

12:57 I think that usage is fine, it implies that you feel petrified of something. It can be fear or surprise but contemporary usage is implicit fear. See below.

Why, I felt petrified with astonishment--although, in view of the fact that you had failed me for four days, I had been expecting some such extraordinary occurrence.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Anywho

"Jane told me she thought my kid misbehaved and I admit, I was TAKEN BACK."

"Agreeance." How the fuck did this become a word?

When people say, "I'm petrified of [something]." I would rather they say, "I'm terrified of dogs. When I see one, I become petrified."

When people refer to their parents as mom/dad as if they are YOUR mom and dad.

my SILs all refer to their spouses as "my husband" instead of names, as if I don't know their spouses. I used to ask what's your husband's name, I might know him.