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I called the person who prepared that notice and pointed out her error. She argued with me that it's not an error. Go figure.
Here is a new, post Bourbon, feature with Google.
Prior to Bourbon if you typed stain glass into Google, the words stain glass would be in bold. Now when you type stain glass, the words stained glass are in bold.
When searching for stain glass on Yahoo and MSN the results still show stain glass in bold.
Some other common mispellings are Artic/Arctic and Antartic/Antarctic
Both are correct, depending on what you are writing about.
Calendar is a list of dates. Calender is a machine used in the processing of rubber [and paper I think].
I visited there website...
There policy is to...
One of my favorites is when somebody feigning education and smarts
uses 'whom' instead of who, even as the subject (not the object) of a phrase.
Transparency indeed. They'd be safer forgetting the word 'whom' exists. -Larry
That reminds me of another goodie. It's nice to see people correctly say "Joe and I" rather than "me and Joe" when it's the correct usage. However, people also fake their smarts by ALWAYS using it, often incorrectly...for example: "He gave the book to Joe and I."
That always cracks me up.
"Fourty". At my kid's nursery. And the teacher insists it's correct. Argh!
The notice board outside the school spells communications without an "n" and uses a "should of" and "fowollowing" in addition to a random sprinkling of apos'trophe's' (probably inserted by a passing drunk). I hope none of those teachers ever spells anything on the web. The problem is the attitude: If it conveys the meaning why bother spelling it correctly?
Or To, Too and Two
Practise and practice too!
Is this comment aimed at people or countries? ;)
"English" uses 'ise' as the verb, and 'ice' as the noun.
"American" reverses it: 'ise' as the noun, 'ice' as the verb...
"Fourty". At my kid's nursery. And the teacher insists it's correct. Argh!
My kids preschool sent out a welcome flyer at the beginning of the school year. I wasn't looking for spelling mistakes, I'm not that anal, but right on the front page were two so blatent you couldn't miss them. How can people who can't spell themselves get jobs teaching spelling?
*this thread makes me nervous to post in, all these eyes spell checking my every word*
To be a nursery nurse you've got to pass GCSE English. If you can pass GCSE English without knowing how to spell forty there is more wrong with the edukation sistem than the worst horror stories in the media.
like "the internet and it's future are grim"
it should be "its"
"it's = it is"
that's my pet peeve
"This website is about red widgets, blue widgets, and green widgets."
I've seen this so much that I have started to doubt and think that may be correct in english, but in spanish you don't put the last comma, the one before the "and".
Example:
"I will never do nothing like that again"
or
"I ain't got no"
yuck!
What really gets my goat is all the people who type ALL CAPS or all lowercase. Maybe it's one thing to send a lazy email, but quite another when you're entering your name and address info for shipping...what, they don't know how to properly capitalize their own names?
Just for Webboy - Some languages a double negative means a positive and others, the meaning is still regarded as negative. Can anyone think of a double positive in English that means a negative? If nobody comes up with it, I'll give an answer tomorrow.
I'll give an answer
Yeah, sure!
I'll give an answer tomorrow.
Is that the Jeopardy answer for this question?
How do you keep a bunch of webmasters in suspense?
