Common Errors in English - A huge list

[KurtNYC]

Wow. After looking at this list, I'm glad I am only bugged by "irregardless", using "normal" when you mean "average", and about 10 others.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

While most of these are on target and help clarify meaning and usage, a few remind me of a consumer investigation I saw on local news where the reporter acted shocked that "swiss cheese" is often not made in Swizterland. Eg. "Soupe du Jour of the day" =

Soupe du jour (note the E on the end of soupe) means “soup of the day.” If you’re going to use French to be pretentious on a menu, it’s important to learn the meaning of the words you’re using. Often what is offered is potage, anyway. Keep it simple, keep it in English, and you can’t go wrong.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. cool!

thanks for posting this.

i am guilty of "might could"

[SmokingJacket]

2. But they forgot "youse"

As in, "What can I get for youse today?"

I think it's a fine thing to try to speak and write correctly. But the compulsive correction of *other* people's errors is a sign of a personality disorder, in my opinion.

Not that I haven't done it once or twice myself... :crazy:

[BlueJazz]

3. I dont need know stinkin list too tell me how too spel.

I was raised in the south an leart how too spel long ago.

[RebelOne]

4. There is a lot of information that I could use at that site.

I am a copy editor and many times I have had to search the Web when I am stumped about grammar usage. That site pretty much has it all.

[Mixxster]

5. "For all intents and purposes"

I used that phrase on another message board and was smugly "corrected" and told that it should be "for all intensive purposes". When I was backed up by a few other members, s/he went on and on, post after post, trying to "prove" that the incorrect phrase was actually correct.

:rofl: