What are your pet peeves re English usage?

That reminds me of a New Yorker cartoon, where two adults were looking at a child with a new construction toy.

Caption: "It's a new toy designed to teach them about life. Whichever way you put it together, it's wrong."

6) Using foreign phrases and mispronouncing them. I heard on the radio the other day someone attempt "pince-nez." He pronounced it as spelled.

This is so common and egregious that I'm sure it has already been said.
I am appalled by reference to "healthy food" when it is not meant that they are disease-free.
Grapes are healthful, not healthy; they help you remain healthy.

JTT, the only situation in which a healthy diet may consist of healthy components is when we eat the meat of healthy animals. A plant may be lacking in nutrients (and is therefore not healthful) but it may be healthy (not suffering a plant disease) .
No, I had not seen this perspective in a manual. The only manual I have is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, but it should obvious that I do not consult it.

coworker and coop housing

it's co-worker and co-op housing, please!

only for ease of understanding - it looks like a cow worker...
it's not necessary, of course, but...

Mame wrote:

only for ease of understanding - it looks like a cow worker...
it's not necessary, of course, but...

Okay.

To me it looks like a 'cow orker'. I wonder, does that describe somebody who 'orks' cows? I wonder if it's fun.

JTT wrote:

Mame wrote:

only for ease of understanding - it looks like a cow worker...
it's not necessary, of course, but...

Okay.

To me it looks like a 'cow orker'. I wonder, does that describe somebody who 'orks' cows? I wonder if it's fun.

Why not try it some time, JTT?