And worse, a "vicious dampener."
Grammar police, pet peeve.
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I have a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism. Every day is like nails on a chalkboard. So many people can't use the correct grammar or the correct spelling. My gripe is that many people who live in a town can't correctly pronounce the town name.
Just leave off the "or not" or "no". May be some of the French influence from up North if us, No? Eh?
Around the Boston area if you are speakin' too fancy you are going to get a beat down thrashing.
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I took a mandatory required writing class for work years ago. The best part of the instruction was leaving it brief, get the point. Don't beat around the bush and use extraneous, extra, redundant, unnecessary words. Long words are ok if you absolutely utterly unquestionably cannot find or locate a shorter replacement. Irregardless extra, sometimes extraneous invented jargon and technical terminology words may or may not have a place on BITOG.
Affect, effect.
People say "I could care less", When they are really trying to convey what would be properly expressed if they said "I could not care less".
Maybe what they're also expressing by abbreviating it improperly is that they care so little that they don't even care to say it properly.
Maybe what they're also expressing by abbreviating it improperly is that they care so little that they don't even care to say it properly.
I saw that Irregardless !
As long as “should” isn’t used, the world will keep spinning.
There. Their. They’re.
Along time ago, my English teacher corrected me. "A rock is hard but, difficult to pick up" Not hard to pick up.
One literally never needs to include the word 'literally,' except in the rarest of cases. What people usually mean is figuratively, actually, completely, or utterly.
Seriously people have actually made "literally" the exact literal equivalent of "actually".
Basically, I was like.....
“Number” vs “Amount.” I cringe when I hear journalists mention the amount of people at an event. You use number when things can be counted and amount when they can’t be easily counted or quantified (e.g., air in a balloon).
I also had a boss who always “seen things.” Drove me crazy.
I also had a boss who always “seen things.” Drove me crazy.
It is still spelled creek, but pronounced crick. As a kid I often wondered what the difference between a creek and a crick actually was.
In writing, too many write poser when they mean poseur. Also, that is a word that should rarely be used.
that's one of them open top cars right?
You're not doing PREVENTATIVE maintenance.
You're doing PREVENTIVE maintenance.
You're doing PREVENTIVE maintenance.
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