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rbnyc

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Mon Jan-24-05 01:29 PM
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Time for another pet peeves thread:

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Sorry, I have to do it.

U.F.O.s: U.F.O.s are Unidentified Flying Objects, NOT spaceships or flying saucers, so it makes no sense to ask if someone believes in them or to say that you do or don't believe in them.

OfTen: The T is silent!

Hopefully: What bothers me most about this one is that I use it incorrectly myself, even though I know it's wrong, because I hear it used incorrectly so often. Hopefully is an adverb. To say, "Hopefully, he'll be okay" is not to say that one hopes he will be okay. When one says "Hopefully, he'll be okay," one is saying that he'll be okay in a hopeful way.

I feel better now.

Your turn:

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