People who say 'see', instead of 'saw'.
My pet peeve, is people who say 'see', instead of 'saw'.

For example, someone may ask me if I have seen a friend recently, lets call him Dave.

I will reply "Yes! I saw him the other day", or some such statement.

However, I frequently hear people spouting:
"Yeah, I see him the other day, I see him up Bluewater" etc etc.

It's very simple, and very petty, but it REALLY grinds my gears.
( WeakLemonDrink, Tue 6 May 2008, 23:21, 3 replies)

Surely you mean "seen" not "see"?
Since both saw and seen are past tenses and I could see that people (who are thick anyway) might get confused there. I can't imagine anyone would confuse see and saw otherwise unless English was a second language to them and they had a shit English teacher.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Wed 7 May 2008, 0:12, closed)

^^ Afraid not!
Nope, my girlfriends dad is a *prime* example of saying See as opposed to Saw.

I can see what you mean, but thats exactly why it irritates me so much.

I do live in a very pikey/chavvy town however...
( WeakLemonDrink, Wed 7 May 2008, 0:52, closed)

When they were kids
Did they play on a 'see-see'?
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Wed 7 May 2008, 12:54, closed)