Research Paper On My Pet Peeves

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My pet peeve is my older brother Derek, even though people cannot be pet peeves, I believe he is mine. To be specific though, I would say it is his actions and mannerisms that aggravate me to no end. I can hardly stand to be in the same room as him. Even reading texts from him annoys me. He manages to text with his personality and does not spell words correctly in his texts. It’s not even text lingo or anything of the sort. Derek simply texts words the way they are pronounced. He purposefully mispronounces words when he knows the correct way they are said. I could understand if this was caused by the Pittsburgh dialect, but it’s not. This is Derek’s way of aggravating. He is constantly being a smart-alek and that’s normally okay; he doesn’t

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