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#12: Most Common Misspelled or Misused Words Online |
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Written by Jesse Thompson
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Tuesday, 23 October 2001 |
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Page 1 of 2  We're all guilty of making mistakes while typing emails or posts on message boards, but some of us are repeat offenders--you know who you are! This week's Top 7 List points the finger (that's "points", not "gives") at the most common misuses of words of grammar that we find online. Typoes bewarr, yu cant escap us!
| | | "should of"
"I should of done that" instead of the proper "I should have done that." I believe I saw this listed as a #1 pet peeve on a site years ago.
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| | | "what."
Some people love to end a question with a period, like "What did you say. When is the show. Why did I fail English class." The magical missing element is the question mark.
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| | | "car's"
Not everything in the world needs an apostrophe to become plural. Most words that end in a consonant don't need one, like "cars". And lots of vowel-ending words don't either, like "planes" or "types".
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| | | """"
People also love putting things in quotes, don't they? Like those spams we get that tell us we 'can "work" from "home" part-time.' The point of the quotation mark is not to make something look important, folks!
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| | | "loosers"
I don't know how this one spread so fast, I never laid eyes on it until the Web came along. Many people seem to think there is an extra 'o' in "lose". "Lose" and "loose" mean two very different things--are you a loser, or are you looser?
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| | | "there" / "your"
Ah, the classic case of getting the conjugations wrong. "There" and "their" and "they're", along with their evil cousins "your" and "you're" are really that hard to get straight, are they?
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