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"Between x to y" always make me cringe. Just heard it this morning, from a professional news reporter (Thomas Roberts MSNBC), "Between ten to twenty homes . . ." affected by Sandy in some locality. It's "between ten AND 20."
I'm just glad this forum has a special place where the spelling police can vent.
I am one, for sure, but spellcheck has a mind of it's own these days; my new computer makes far too many decisions of it's own on my typos, so I don't get after the bad spellers like I once did.
What gripes me more is all the terrible usage these days. 'Me and her seen that movie' always lights me up like a roman candle, as does 'her and I'. Proper grammar is dying a slow and agonizing death these days.
What about confusing respectively with respectfully?
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What about a user just above using "it's" for "its"? Some even spell it as "its'", with the apostrophe AFTER the "s"!
Typing 'it's' instead of "its" at the wrong time is likely the most prevalent mistake! It is surely the one that irks me the most! As a result, I feel people think I'm an idiot if I ever type "its" instead of "it's," even at appropriate times.
In fact, "its" looks wrong, as if the user was too lazy to type an apostrophe, when in fact it's sometimes wrong if used with an apostrophe!
May have been mentioned, but "loose" for "lose.". I can see how it happens, but...
"You're a looser"! Huh? "Loosers" instead of "losers"
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Also, I see "rediculous" or "rediculus" often in a forum I visit. What ever happened to plain 'ole "ridiculous"?
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