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I loathe the lack of ability some people show in making verbs and nouns agree in terms of number, particularly in the third person.
A typical sense would be "Let the customer make his selection and then get them to choose their prize."
I also get driven insane by people who wilfully misuse "less" and "fewer". I'm driven even crazier by people who then spend considerable amounts of time trying to justify their misuse ...
Note that I got two peeves for one post here, stales old son!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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