What is the most misused word in the English language?

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by Zea mays

The sentence has no direct object, so it takes the intransitive case (lie, lay, lain):

Present tense: i lie down on my bed.
Past tense: I lay down on my bed.
Past Perfect: I have lain down on my bed.

Not to be a PITA, but is your past tense correct? laid down?

just askin'

[figmalt]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Not to be a PITA, but is your past tense correct? laid down?

just askin'

The OED shows the past participle for 'lay' to be 'laid.'

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by P.K. Lecoq

effect - noun
affect - verb

An affectation can create effects bothersome to others.

How can we effect change if rules are so narrow?

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by emilybh

"I graduated college" when it should be, "I graduated FROM college" and using an adjective when an adverb should be used such as "I baked the cake and it came out perfect" when the correct word should be "perfectly" are two other ones that drive me up a wall.

Some who don't graduate college drive truck.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Cavaturaccioli

Has anyone brought up "supposably"?
Man, that one grates on my nerves!

There's a whole thread on that one. Supposedly vs. Supposably?

[PanTerra]

How about moot?

[CJFinnegan]

Mute instead of moot.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by CJFinnegan

Mute instead of moot.

I was thinking more in a sense of its meaning.