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10-24-2008, 06:28 PM
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I love this blog, and it's so appropriate for this thread:
http://www.englishfailblog.com/
Enjoy.
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10-24-2008, 10:00 PM
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A grad school bud of mine was the librarian in the high school in a very small town. When the football banquet came around, it was attended by almost everyone in town. The head football coach got up to address the team and said "Boys, you done a real well job this year."
Needless to say, "You done a real well job" is now a popular catch phrase among my friends who were in school at that time.
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10-26-2008, 01:10 PM
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On another board, saw two posts which said "Dido" when they meant
"Ditto." Weird.
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08-28-2008, 08:37 PM
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Thought of another one! "On accident" in lieu of "by accident" completely drives me insane. I correct people in my head every time I hear it, and once it accidentally slipped out and I corrected someone verbally. I was so embarrassed! 
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08-28-2008, 08:42 PM
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Thought of another one! "On accident" in lieu of "by accident" completely drives me insane. I correct people in my head every time I hear it, and once it accidentally slipped out and I corrected someone verbally. I was so embarrassed! |
That is one of my dad's pet peeves. He corrected me so many times as a kid that I NEVER make that mistake!!
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08-28-2008, 08:46 PM
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That is one of my dad's pet peeves. He corrected me so many times as a kid that I NEVER make that mistake!!
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That's EXACTLY why it bothers me!! My dad drilled it into me as a child! How funny. 
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08-28-2008, 08:55 PM
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That's EXACTLY why it bothers me!! My dad drilled it into me as a child! How funny. |
Maybe our generation invented this error and our dads reacted appropriately!
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08-28-2008, 08:44 PM
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Thought of another one! "On accident" in lieu of "by accident" completely drives me insane. I correct people in my head every time I hear it, and once it accidentally slipped out and I corrected someone verbally. I was so embarrassed! |
My brother used to say he did things "for an accident." Well, I'm SURE he did! LOLOL!
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08-29-2008, 04:46 PM
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Welllll I'm grammatically sensitive, so I get touchy about a lot of stuff (especially verbally). The one that bugs me a lot (that hasn't been mentioned yet) is anyways. It's supposed to be anyway! I was so proud when I broke one boyfriend of that habit. Go me!
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I have to admit, I like "anyways" better than "anyway".
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08-29-2008, 11:11 PM
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I have to admit, I like "anyways" better than "anyway".
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I don't care about that, it's when people say any hoo that drives me crazy. Now, I have a co-worker who says any hoe! She can't even get any hoo right! I cringe every time she says it.
There is one more that really makes me crazy but it tends to be only in pronunciation, not in writing and that's when someone says they are "flustrated." It's FRUSTRATED, there is no L in there.
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08-29-2008, 11:21 PM
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There is one more that really makes me crazy but it tends to be only in pronunciation, not in writing and that's when someone says they are "flustrated." It's FRUSTRATED, there is no L in there.
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How about "fustrated." No R. I hear it all the time from New Englanders. I don't get it.
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08-30-2008, 12:13 AM
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How about "fustrated." No R. I hear it all the time from New Englanders. I don't get it.
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I'm guilty of that. You'd all be  if you heard me say water. We don't drink WAHter in NJ, we drink worter. 
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08-29-2008, 11:23 PM
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Quote:
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There is one more that really makes me crazy but it tends to be only in pronunciation, not in writing and that's when someone says they are "flustrated." It's FRUSTRATED, there is no L in there.
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It's like when people say they are going to the "Libary," no you are going to the Lib rary.
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08-29-2008, 11:31 PM
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I agree with all of these, and yes I do agree with the typos. Sometimes we just have our off days, right? I cannot stand birfday and fell (meaning feel) and dat. UGHHH! No wonder our education rates are so low  . Also, there are times when I want to type on the computer in text mode. I don't like to be proper ALL of the time. However, there is a time and a place for everything. 
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08-30-2008, 12:18 AM
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Quote:
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I don't care about that, it's when people say any hoo that drives me crazy. Now, I have a co-worker who says any hoe! She can't even get any hoo right! I cringe every time she says it.
There is one more that really makes me crazy but it tends to be only in pronunciation, not in writing and that's when someone says they are "flustrated." It's FRUSTRATED, there is no L in there.
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Is she trying to be funny? It would get old pretty quick, but it's might make me laugh if she varied it.
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