Cement is a light gray fine powder, but you wouldn’t know it from everybody on TV who use the term in place of concrete. Hannity, who supposedly worked as a contractor, wanders back and forth, one time using the former; then switching to the latter - for the same item. I ask people who misuse it whether it would be OK to say ‘flour’ when you meant ‘cake.’
TV talking heads consistently use ‘podium’ where they really meant ‘lectern.’ You step on a podium; you step up to a lectern.
To many, ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are interchangeable, as are ‘there’ and ‘their’ (they’ve never even heard of ‘they’re’).
It’s always easier to notice the errors, so I am enjoying seeing there are a few literate types still out there. Next I’ll complain about those who distribute commas like a ghetto thug distributes his DNA (and with no more of an idea about how to support the result).
A whole lot of dictionary bashing going on, here .
(Whilst perusing the queue of threads....lol.)
You mean the Beverly Hillbillies were wrong when they talked about that cee-ment pond?