What are your pet peeves re English usage?

NEW YORK—Law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that four more copy editors were killed this week amid ongoing violence between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual Of Style.

“At this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English,” said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein, showing reporters graffiti tags in which the word “anti-social” had been corrected to read “antisocial.”

I also can not remember ever seeing cherubims or seraphims.

Of course not, POM, they don't exist.

Not got very far have you JT?

we had an east coast/west coast argument about writing style among geologists.
The words GROUND WATER, was crafted by USGS style manuals with lotsa rules to use (Its hyphenated when its an adjective like ground-water discharge). Then, the west coast guys (mostly the Stanford dweebs) started using GROUNDWATER this and GROUNDWATER that.
Lotsa bad feelings ensued, followed by name calling at symposia.
It was awful, we lost almost an entire generation.

As a member of the Germanic family of languages, English is special in that compound words are usually written in their separate parts. ... Writing them as separate words is merely an orthographic convention, possibly a result of influence from French.