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Hear are the ones that seam two cause the most problems:
Your and You're
Their and there and they're
Are and our (this won amazes me)
Should of instead of should have
To and too and two
Its and it's
and all manor of apostraphes
Sayings our fun knee to, such as:
"Doggy dog world" instead of "Dog Eat Dog World"
"With all intensive purposes" instead of "With all intents and purposes"
"A tough road to hoe" instead of "A tough row to hoe"
Wood ewe bee interested in contributing sum of you're own? Awl ewe half two dew is post a comment. Wee our sure glad your reading this blog, because the moor the marry her.
U dont wanna 4get 2 include #'s. Talk 2 u l8er.
Posted by: David Garza | January 20, 2012 at 10:42 AM
happend instead of happened
"I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less
then and than
commas
Posted by: Kevin | January 20, 2012 at 10:47 AM
I'm sure many have received the advice: "i before e, except after c." I find this insufficient as a rule of thumb. Isn't that weird?
Posted by: Jim | January 20, 2012 at 01:18 PM
Are you taking your blessed education for "granite?" (should be "granted")
It "effects" (affects) the way the message comes across and will "loose" (lose) the "affect" (effect) of the communication.
"Me and you" (You and I) should "definately" (definitely) have time with an editor in our "calender," (calendar), because we may have learned it all in "kindergarden" (kindergarten), but when we were 5, we "was" (were) smarter "then" (than) we are now.
Lol!
Posted by: Terri BraDy | January 20, 2012 at 04:31 PM
Two funny!
I minored in literature, and the spelling/grammar mistakes I see daily from coworkers and clients (medical offices, no less!) are enough to make me nuts. Even my boss is equally guilty.
Your article reminded me of a classic poem I read years ago in Reader's Digest. It's incredibly witty author is, unfortunately, unknown.
* * * * * * * *
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Posted by: Cathy -- Team Rascals | January 20, 2012 at 06:15 PM
Turn left at the green house, then turn right at the greenhouse.
Posted by: Curtis | January 20, 2012 at 07:17 PM
WOW! Thank goodness for smart phones. Maybe just for me.
Posted by: Gene Turner | January 20, 2012 at 09:38 PM
I love going to Youtube and looking at the comments. Every once and awhile (once in a while) someone will post a comment that has such bad grammar and punctuation that I literally cannot understand a word they said; honestly, it's harder than Shakespeare, Keynes, Mises etc. Anyway, sometimes you see cuz instead of because, plz instead of please, that and which get confused, sooooo instead of so, congratz instead of Congratulations etc. Two of my favorites are ALL CAPS, WHY? I DON'T KNOW! and multiple exclamation point(s)!!!
Posted by: Scott | January 20, 2012 at 10:53 PM
At work I recently realized how often lay and lie are interchanged. One lays a book on a desk and a dog lies down on a carpet. The book is now lying on the desk and the dog is lying on the carpet rather than laying.
Posted by: Dana | January 21, 2012 at 04:14 AM
Great! I was hoping to be able to tell someone that one of my clients had 'scalped potatoes' the other day.Other folks take a hankering to sayin Walmark(walmart)~HOWEVER,my all time favorite is when my black friend calls her hair style corn 'rolls' instead of rows!
Posted by: Draftydeb | January 21, 2012 at 04:30 AM
To fun knee.... :]
kb
Posted by: kirk birtles | January 21, 2012 at 11:55 AM
The word regardless means without regard. When people say irregardless it ends up being a double negative.
Posted by: Teesa Rossman | January 21, 2012 at 09:45 PM
When my 8 year old son, Jordan, says, "Mom, I WANT to be a 'wife'-guard!" (life-guard) and his dad says, "That's MY job!"
Posted by: Holly Schmitz | January 22, 2012 at 07:56 PM
A pet peeve is the use of an apostrophe to denote plurals and the utter carelessness in forming possessives: "He and I's friend's" instead of "His and my friends"—what's with thinking that the nominative case is always correct?!
But, then, you have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race which, of course, is not a race at all. :)
Posted by: Lalanne Barber | January 22, 2012 at 10:17 PM
Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. (Unless you have to.)
They say Shakespear's working vocabulary was about 30,000 words, while the average American today uses just 3000 (with "like" being repeated enough to fill in the other 27,000 spaces!) For a demonstration of the difference, please see John Branyan's version of The Three Little Pigs on Youtube.
Posted by: Kevin Dick | January 23, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Of course ya can't forget about no and know or knows and nose, which or witch, or one and won.
In todays (today's) public education know won nose witch won to use when. (Gotta love phonetic spelling)
Posted by: Neil Jenks | January 23, 2012 at 01:01 PM
When did "alzheimer's" become "all-timers" disease?
Posted by: Jason Fredrick | January 23, 2012 at 08:14 PM
Wow! Let me say that backwards woW!
Thatz all I can say.
Posted by: Greg Johnson | January 23, 2012 at 10:38 PM
"Turn left at the green house, then turn right at the green house."
Is that "greenhouse" made of Clear, Coated or Tempered Glass?
Posted by: Superman | January 24, 2012 at 04:40 AM
I found a great video that illustrates the heavy reliance on spelling correction software, and the dangers that presents. Feel free to view and enjoy the reading from a poet I found just a couple weeks ago, Taylor Mali. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ&feature=related
Posted by: Jason Monaghan | January 24, 2012 at 05:11 PM
I am from Texas. I was born here, raised here and still live here. One of my biggest 'cringe' moments happens when I hear my fellow Texans say: WARSHER or WARSHING machine instead of WASHER or WASHING machine!
I am equally appalled at hearing about reality shows that portray us all as hicks with a hick drawl! Also, it never fails when someone does something they shouldn't, that the news crew will find the one person half naked in coveralls and boots, carrying a six-pack in one hand, to interview as a reliable eye-witness! Does this happen in Michigan too?
Posted by: Dena | January 25, 2012 at 03:15 AM
awl most pea ed in mine leader hosen. ;) Butt ho threw!
Posted by: Eric Norman | January 25, 2012 at 03:39 PM
sutides sohw taht as lnog as the frist and lsat wrod are in the rihgt palce you will be albe to raed tihs wtih no porbelms.
As lnog as all the ltetres are pesrnet. Egnilsh may be a mseesd up lnagague, but the hmaun bairn is eevn srtagner.
Posted by: John Hayward | January 30, 2012 at 02:54 PM
She had two too many tutu's to wear.
Posted by: John Rogers | February 15, 2012 at 07:26 PM