pet peeve -- strangle

I too yell at the TV when the anchors don't practice correct usage. I can't listen to any newscasts without wanting to punch the person behind the desk for not reading their stylebook.

 

Funny you bring this up.
One of the requirements for the woman I would marry -- and I am not making this up -- is that I would never hear her use the word "party" as a verb.
And I found her.
We've been married nearly 26 years, happily.

 

My pet peeve is "set a new record." If the record was just set, of course it's new. Just say, "set a record."

 

Party on, dude!

 

Yes, it's tough to talk to the great unwashed. (Yet employed.)

 

I'd say "Mr. Jones drowned from the neck up."

 

Refute? That's another word often misused, even by professional writers.

 

By the most stringent definition of the word, you're right. But "refute" is also liberally defined as "to deny," which I suppose makes it and "repudiate" pretty much interchangeable.