corrects errors on emails to?
... oh well, it's nice to have a hobby.
(Oops, I meant to write 'too' not 'to'.)
Posted on 04/11/2012 12:22:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
For no reason in particular, I thought it would be helpful (or irritating, depending upon your point of view) to post a list of words that are commonly misspelled or improperly used on FreeRepublic.
Feel free to add any of your own.
I realize that this will open me up to greater scrutiny of the orthographic composition of my own future posts, but alas; so be it.
Aid = help vs. Aide=assistant (as in “an aide to Congressman Frank”)
Anointed (NOT “annointed”)
Border (as in the line between U.S. and Mexico) (NOT “boarder” as in the guy who gets a bedroom in your house and dinner for a fee)
Gauge (NOT “gage”)
Huge (NOT “hugh”—yes, I know it’s a running joke, but FReepers still misspell it accidentally.)
Loose = opposite of tight. Most of the time, FReepers mean to type “lose.”
Martial Law (NOT “Marshall Law”)
Tenet (as in “principle”) (NOT “tenant”)
Existence (NOT “existence”)
Existent (NOT “existant”) Remember: “The ‘a’ in existent is nonexistent.”
Poll (as in “survey”) (NOT “pole” as in a stripper's primary accessory)
Principal vs. Principle: Principal = 1) First, or highest in rank; 2) Head guy (or gal) in a school; 3) Main portion of money in finance, e.g. principal of a loan.
Principle = Moral rule
Your vs. You’re:
Your = possessive. "Your mother doesn’t approve of your spelling skills."
You’re = Contraction of “you are” "You’re not likely to pass English."
I think you are homonymophobic.
What do you mean by “Existence (NOT “existence”)?
One I misuse: irregardless.
A irregular word used when the correct word would be either “regardless” or “irrespective”.
For another fun inquiry ask ten people how to spell the building used to store aircraft.
I saw this on PJ Media this morning.
>> Eh, would that be a vise?
Yep!
You found half of ‘em... keep looking.
“nekkid” is much more fun.
“Rediculous” means to “diculous again.”
It’s, ‘hoard,’ not ‘horde’ for preppers! But if you want to start a horde modeled after Genghis Cohen and his buds, please do so.
Plural words with ist suffixes. For example: “Terrorists have attacked.” Not “terrorist have attacked.”
I should of known their was alot of grammer problems on FR. But that’s a hole nuther problem.
I get that one right but then I'm never sure how to spell the thing you use to hang up your clothes. I think it's because my ex-wife's closet was so big it really was a clothes hangar.
In fact--get all the prounouns correct.
Bless you! Along with "loose" for "lose", those two botches are near the top of my list. That said, I can overlook "it's" and "its", which I consider more of a typo than an intentional misuse of the language.
Okay, question, please. For days FR has been timing out like crazy for me. It took me seven tries to get my posts and four tries to get to this thread. Anyone else?
I've had no problems whatsoever and have posted rather frequently over the past 7-10 days. Of course, I use Linux and run my own DNS server. Both of those make me pretty much impervious to network-related problems modulo those on the remote server or at points in between.
-PJ
It must really suck being you.
I could of had a V8?
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