Verbiage Issues!

So, one of my biggest (and I mean BIGGEST) pet peeves is when people use words out of context! My annoyance with this is considerably amplified when said people use 'big' words out of context to try to impress others. Sorry, but that just confirms your idiot status in my eyes. Come on, if you're going to pull it out of the repertoire...use it the right way!!!!! There isn't one specific person (anymore) that is doing this but it just seems that lately I've been getting this from people and it's making me bonkers. An ex-manager used to use the word nomenclature a lot, in the correct context, mind you. It's not a real favorite word of mine but I think just because it is a word that is used quite often in the particular industry I work in, others just throw it out there, whether it works or not! I wish I could think of the particular word that an ex-coworker used all the time and he used it to try to sound much more intelligent than the person he was talking to at the time. Unfortunately, he has been gone too long (no, actually the fact he is gone is quite fortunate) for me to remember what it was. I could probably look at past posts and I bet I brought it up somewhere! Funny that I've forgotten because he used the word several times a day it seemed. I guess our minds do serve us well at times by allowing us to forget life's little annoyances. I'm sure it will come to me sometime though! So, along with grammar I have a big thing with spelling too...which brings me to the title of my post and the word verbiage. Every once in a while...you run into a word that you know is spelled correctly but it still doesn't look right. This is one of those words for me...why the 'i'? They do the same thing with the word carriage, which comes from carry. Why wouldn't verbiage be spelled verbage, like bondage or carnage? I don't get it and I suppose I never will. How sick is it that I could talk about this all day?