This one's in honor of my TX darlin' Jan, who got a hoot out of my earlier spelling-related bitchiness. Here's hoping it speeds her recovery from that nightmarish illness.
STATIONERY: Letter-writing paper... you know, the stuff you use when you're out of cell phone range and you have no access to email. STATIONARY: Standing still, as in "a stationary object."
And a few bonus corrections:
CEMETERY: Not "cemetary" or "cematery" or "cematery." There is no "a" in that word.
MISCHIEVOUS: Not "mischievious." Two, not three "i's." And the emphasis is on the first syllable (MISS-cheh-vuss), not the second, in the same way you would say "mischief" (MISS-chiff).
That is all. Go forth and continue to vocalize properly.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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I LOVE YOU! I pontificated today myself - go check out my blog.......
There/their/they're
Then/than
effect/affect
Arrrgh/Wauuuggghhh
I love you too!
So going over to your respective blogs... so nice to know I'm not ranting alone... so nice to have people I can call to help me hide the bodies of people who can't keep from mangling basic English...
My personal pet peeve: your/you're! I work at a high tech company with a lot of college educated people who write so badly. It grates on every last nerve in my body!
Aha! Denise is one of us!
wow. I ALWAYS spell Stationery wrong. It doesn't look right, dammit!
Mine is also your/you're! It's so easy to distinguish which one you should use -- if you can correctly use "you are" instead, then it's you're.
To and too also make me cringe.
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