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I pride myself with utilising good grammar. If you ever catch me screwing up my grammar¹ before I catch myself, I will give you a dollar. You might think that I'm stupid that I would fuss over something so minute, but please shut up after you realise that you're getting money for this.

These are my grammatical pet-peeves. If you catch me using them, you get a dollar too. I hate…

1. …putting an apostrophe between the number and the s in terms like the 90's, full house of 6's over jacks or I'm in my mid-40's. The proper usage should be '90s, 6s and 40s.
2. …misusing AD. AD should always come before the number, not after: AD 2006 and not 2006 AD.
3. …using digits for numbers that could be written with less than two words.
4. …using two spaces after a period; that's a holdover from the typewriter era.
5. …, lastly, using words like guesstimate, Nashvegas and spanglish.

1. This doesn't include split infinitives, sentences ending with prepositions, singular they, lack of serial commas and who in the objective case; I consider each of these to be perfectly grammatical.