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I have a friend who tries to use big words even if she isn't sure of their meaning.
For example, she was talking about an affluent area nearby and all the exuberant houses there. I think she was going for exhorbitant. Anyway, my daughter and I smothered our laughs, but every once in the while we giggle over it, picturing happy houses jumping up and down with joy.
In my humble opinion the word is 'have' because it is past tense and too often paired incorrectly with a second past tense word. Some examples, I have been (I was}, I have seen (I saw), I have done (I did), I have written (I wrote).
"Have x" is grammatically incorrect? I swear we learned that it was correct when I was in school...
Redundancies are often misused. For example, I recently saw someone write "more than you can regain back again". That's a Super-redundancy, with three elements all doing the work that only just one of them would do alone all by itself without the other.
It reminded me of the team of baseball broadcasters, the unschooled Dizzy Dean with the erudite Buddy Blattner:
DD: "I remember a game where we hit 4 straight home runs in a row, back to back."
BB, chuckling: "Were those consecutive, Diz?"
DD: "Yes, Podner, one right after the other."
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You hear it misused ALLLLL the time, makes me crazy.
