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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Pet peeve #319

I'd like to clear something up. Two words: Borrow and Lend.

Borrow: to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: "I'd like to borrow your hammer so I can bash your head in."

Lend: to grant the use of something on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned: "Could you lend me a pair of panties? Mine are wet."

My pet peeve is not that people want to borrow things, or expect me to lend them anything. No problem there. As long as you ask properly.
I can't stand when people say the following: "Can you borrow me 5 dollars?"
The word is LEND, not BORROW.
I can't even explain the rage I feel when someone says "borrow me."

Now that that's off my chest, I feel much better.

What phrases or bastardization of the English language tick you off?
Or am I the only one that cares?