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Showing Original Post only (View all)What spelling/grammar errors really irritate you? [View all]
Apostrophe misuse used to top my list with the inability to use the correct version of a word that rhymes with "hair," starts with "th," and has three variants, but those days are behind me now, so seeing some moron write "my shoe's are over their" doesn't irritate me so much as it makes me roll my eyes.
Now, I'm finding that dropping the last half of "though" and pretending that it's the same word is slowly driving me mad. Given a sentence like, "I love snickerdoodle's tho there kinda boring..."
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I sometimes think that the letter "s" should just get an apostrophe as part of the character.
laconicsax
Jan 2012
#12
LOL....All Ss should receive an apostrophe. It actually doesn't look that bad.
pinniped
Jan 2012
#16
The use of the subjective form of a personal pronoun as the object of a preposition.
Iggo
Jan 2012
#36
Next question: How many people here have been/are paid to correct errors like these?
grasswire
Jan 2012
#61
Because correcting people on their grammar is exactly like genocide, right?
laconicsax
Jan 2012
#102
Between HIM and I (Many, many, many make this error...even supposedly intelligent people) nt
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2012
#101