Son-of-a-Weizen Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 She use to carve pumpkins..... vs. she used to carve pumpkins which is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 disc or disk?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 piqued/peaked As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 piqued/peaked As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter) ← Include an extra "that", or leave it out? "...although you'd thing that that would be a logical use..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free For All Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 piqued/peaked As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter) ← Include an extra "that", or leave it out? "...although you'd thing that that would be a logical use..." ← Of that I'm not sure. Of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 (edited) piqued/peaked ← This one's similar: faze/phase faze = embarrass, disconcert. phase = a stage of development, a temporary pattern, an aspect or part, etc. Yet I see this mistake all the time: "It didn't phase me at all..." Edited August 13, 2005 by Kalo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 past/passed Just saw in another thread that someone had past out, and I've seen this error several times before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ngram Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Its amazing the amount of people who get these things wrong. This is my pet hate, using amount for number and sometimes vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 My pet hate is still Fuschia instead of Fuchsia. The flower was named after 16th Century botanist Dr Fuchs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Don't be hating your pets! Or petting your hates, for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rat Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 My pet hate is still Fuschia instead of Fuchsia. The flower was named after 16th Century botanist Dr Fuchs. ← It really flips me off that people constantly mispronounce mise en scene. Man that makes me mad! --eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Here/hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Possessive pronouns: there's instead of theirs it's instead of its Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Possessive pronouns: there's instead of theirs it's instead of its ← who's instead of whose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted October 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 There is a difference between "then" and "than". There really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 There is a difference between "then" and "than". There really is. ← Than tell us what diffrence their is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 What about those nutty apostrophes? I think the plural of CD looks better as CDs, but I very often see CD's. I vote we all switch over to speaking Esperanto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 She use to carve pumpkins..... vs. she used to carve pumpkins which is it? ← I see this went unanswered Before her unfortunate accident, she used to carve pumpkins. Not only that, she used to live in Iowa. What kind of tool did she use to carve pumpkins? There's the tool that she used to carve pumpkins. Has that tool been used to carve pumpkins? If so, I have no use for that tool. I mean, what's the use of using a used pumpkin-carving tool? I used to use a used pumpkin-carving tool, but I just couldn't get used to it. NEXT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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