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I just came across this one today: quacking with fear. I was so frightened, I turned into a duck! Quack! Quack!
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Rowdys Girl wrote:
Let me add this one to the mix: sooth/soothe. And punctuation can drive me crazy too, I have a serious problem with the ellipsis (...), it is 3 dots, not 2, 4, 6 or more. And all punctuation used with quote marks goes INSIDE the quote marks. There is no trailing period or comma. Arrrrgggghhhh!
Excuse me, I have to wipe the foam off my mouth.
Actually when it comes to ellipsis, it is three dots but there can be four if its used to trail off at the end of a sentence. And there can be punctuation outside of brackets and yes even quotation marks it all depends on how its used in the sentence. English is complicated. I think we need to make up a less complicated language!
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I know we're talking about spelling, but I absolutely loathe when "i see letters not capitalized. especially the beginning of sentences." And speaking of which, it's capitalized, not capitolized - we didn't make the word into a National building.
Don't mind me, I'm a grammar nazi.
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I also hate the floor thing when people are talking about cement or whatever.
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"Stop it, you're chocking me!"
Gah!! It's CHOKING. That's a big peeve for me.
Choking is to block the respiratory system, chock is a block or wedge used to keep something- like a wheel- from moving.
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Chocking! I've come across that one too! A secretary at this Department of Public Works where I used to work once called a winch a wench in front of a bunch of the guys. She said something about a wench mounted on the front of a truck! The guys gave her a hard time about that!
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then/than bugs the crap out of me and affect/effect
piece/peace
silver/sliver
"ravenous hair" really? what's it craving? a cheeseburger?
plate/plait
the whole lie/lay/laid/lain issue, but I'm kind of easy on that one since it is tricky.
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