Common misuse of the English Language examples

[Dris]

Now obvious 'typos' are exempt.We all all make them.

ect for 'etc' .

of cause for of course .


Any more glaringly obvious ones?

[Poor-Alfie]

just look here, you will find find loads of examples



http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/user/stats.php

[Dris]

I'm embarrassed to say there's a few on this thread i've misused.Learn every day so they say -i'm not saying which ones lol

[joko]

when peopl confuse similar words - and refuse to be told

such as scrim and scrimp
scran and scram
muslim and muslin


voluMptuous is another common one

[DTCwordfan]

enviroment vs environment
goverment vs government

[saxy_jag]

'May be' in place of 'maybe'.

And commas, stuck in, all over the place, wherever my boss who should know better, thinks there should be a break, in the sentence.

[joeluke]

Dris, you've got MR way too excited with this post

He's almost up to fever pitch

[daoji]

Noone.
See that all the time.

[MarkRae]

> Noone

Unless discussing Herman's Hermits... ;-)

[sir.prize]

One which appeared on here this week

Circus Sized instead of . . .. . hahaha

[Postdog]

One I just saw on another thread. Dunno if it's been said already cos I've not been though them, just remember the post.

Thou for though. See it a lot with facebook friends too.

[boxtops]

I would of, instead of I would have - in fact, of used instead of have in many expressions

Anne Robinson who always says Thousant instead of thousand
Joolery

Him and me went somewhere
This happened to my friend and myself

and so on....

[boxtops]

PS Was in on here? that the sign on the door said

CLOSED FOR LUNCH
APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONTINENCE

[tinkie]

all be it instead of albeit

[boxtops]

^^ oops, was it?

[Buenchico]

Further to Mikrog's post:
At the school I taught at, the P.E. department had a drawer of their filing cabinet labelled "P.E. Stationary". That certainly seemed to be a new educational approach to me ;-)

[boxtops]

The Pri Minister (the BBC newsreaders are fond of that one)

[scrunge999]

'Should of' instead of 'should have'

[jomifl]

Sorry Alfie.. coodnt fined enny :-)

[MarkRae]

> This happened to my friend and myself

This misuse of reflexive pronouns has increased dramatically over the last few years, especially in business correspondence, where it appears to be considered as somehow more "professional" English...

[Buenchico]

I get annoyed when people don't know the difference between 'licence' and 'license' (or 'practice' and 'practise', etc).