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Been in the US a few years, and have truly yet to meet someone here who knows how to spell / pronounce 'voila'. I've seen Walla, Wha-la, Wala. Fantastic! Not seen this anywhere else. Yes, I am easily amused. What are others' faves out there? |
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Hardly anyone on this board spells "ridiculous" correctly, I usually see "rediculous". |
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A lot of people spell defiantly when they mean definitely. |
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HA HA a professional athlete tweeted this one yesterday. It totally changed the meaning of his tweet. I knew what he meant but it was funny. "I defiantly support 'so and so' in all he does...' |
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The Miami Heat are a very dominate team. |
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They say loosing instead of losing. To instead of too. Ex: He was to busy loosing to care about the test he had the next day. |
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I saw this the other day: "Grammar: It is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit" |
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"Penultimate" is almost always misused, as if it meant something greater than or beyond ultimate. It actually means one less than the ultimate. |
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One example please? |
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I saw a flyer in college once that advertised a meeting of an Orthodox Christian student group. It said that the Orthodox Church was the one true "apostate" (i.e. they have renounced Christianity) church, instead of the one true "apostolic" (i.e. descended from Jesus's Twelve Apostles) church. |
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I hear people complain about misuse of this work more often than I hear people actually misuse it. |
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wrote: I hear people complain about misuse of this work more often than I hear people actually misuse it.[/quote] But I do notice that some people get confused between "word" and "work." |
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Recent quotes from this board.
And that is only from the first 6 or 7 occurrences from the search function. |
| not a grammarian |
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My favorite is a mute point (instead of moot). The point is unable to speak. |
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The classics (not words, but phrases): I could care less for all intensive purposes if worst comes to worst For words, you can't beat the Oatmeal's "10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling" http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling My favorite is definitely- "There is no A in definitely. To help you remember, use this: If you put an A in "definitely," then you're definitely an A-hole." |
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deer/dear.... |
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People almost always misspell onomatopoeia and it just pisses me off! |
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My two favorites: people say "I's" when they mean my/mine. Usually they will say something like this: "Joe and I's parents." Hey idiots, "I's" is never correct. The one that drives me crazy is when "humbled" is misused. It happens all the time. Every idiot on America Idol says it at least once. Pro sports players do it a lot as well. For example: "I'm humbled to be inducted into the Hall of Fame." How exactly does being recognized as one of the greatest lower your dignity. |
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In terms of just misusing words, people use "less" when "fewer" should be used. Express isles at stores usually say "15 items or less." I don't know about you, but I usually measure my items at Wal-Mart in discrete numbers. |