What are your pet peeves re English usage?

Joe Nation wrote:

Tool trivia:
Almost all tools have several names, some of them localized as in "water pump pliers" for Channelocks, some of them personal like Clary's fourple for Phillips which I'm sure Henry F. Phillips, the inventor (1938) would not enjoy.

The Allen Key is a Hex Wrench is an EL Key is a Hex EL is a Hex Key is a good example.

So is the Crescent Wrench is a Spanner is an Adjustable is a Knucklebuster is another.

Joe(I told her it was a hammer and that she was nearing thirty)Nation

Interesting about Phillips.

We have a big wrench called a Stilson, or sometimes a "set of stilsons". Do you have that?

No, we say vacuum, as a verb and a noun, and Hoover only if it is a noun.

And we say, OMG, dare I say it? - Scotch? tape

We do say cellophane, though, for that stiffer, non-sticky stuff you wrap a bouquet of flowers in Go figure... what do YOU call that stuff?

I say ABerrant. I thought everyone did. How solipsistic.

Has anyone ever been fazed?
Athletes are not fazed by their competition.
Leaders remain unfazed by sudden reversals.
But no one is fazed, it seems.

I say ABerrant. I thought everyone did. How solipsistic.

Clary wrote:

I say ABerrant. I thought everyone did. How solipsistic.

I've always pronounced it that way, myself. Now, how do you say:

controversy? CON-troversy or con-TRO-versy - I say the former.

and another one -

comparable? COMparable (basically it's COMp'rable) or comPARable? I say the former.

We also use a long I in privacy And I know you Brits don't, but you're wrong I tell you, WRONG!!