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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Am I the only one with this pet peeve? We all make mistakes with grammar and spelling from time to time, but this one is like scratching on a chalkboard to me. I think some people think it's cute. I don't think illiteracy is cute.
To is used with verbs. For example, "I want to eat the whole apple pie." It is a preposition, like "for" and "towards". ie: "Take it to the house."
Too is an adverb, like "in excess" or "overly". ie: "I'm too heavy!" Too also means "as well". ie: "I'm happy too!"
Two = 2
I feel better now that I've gotten this off my chest! Now I can look forward to going outside so I can fill the water trough and throw two bales out for my horses too.....in -30 degrees.
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Location: South Georgia | I am an English teacher, so I can relate to your frustrations. I have also been seeing people mess up SALE and SELL lately. You do not have a "Horse for SELL!" You have a "Horse for SALE!" |
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 Bit O Holic
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | Those bug me TOO... The way I remembered the too in school was the extra "o" meant also, extra, in addition.
What gets me is when I see something advertised for sell, because they need to sale it bad. UGH.
Edited by shellyh1971 2013-12-05 8:23 AM
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Location: Midwest | horsegirl - 2013-12-05 8:17 AM I am an English teacher, so I can relate to your frustrations. I have also been seeing people mess up SALE and SELL lately. You do not have a "Horse for SELL!" You have a "Horse for SALE!"
this x10,000
or they're, their, and there
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Location: Alberta | Also....their, there, they're OR where, were, wear....drives me crazy!!!
I saw two signs on the highway a couple weeks ago...
"HEY FOR SALE"
"PHAIRY TALES" - this was on a community bulletin board!!!??
Edited by dream_chaser 2013-12-05 8:30 AM
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Honestly, I think some people think it's cute. Others just do it to be irritating on purpose. |
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Bit O Holic
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Location: hot, humid and dry...Gulf coast East of Houston.. | A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea. |
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| So, does it bother you when someone has a Philly for sale?? I'm not talking about a sandwich either!
It also bothers me when people don't use "a" and "an" correctly. A ill horse...an ill horse. "An" is used before words that start with vowels!!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I saw a Quarts saddle for sell on Craigslist a few weeks ago,  |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | I two have a horse for sell. . . |
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| HotbearLVR - 2013-12-05 9:04 AM Am I the only one with this pet peeve? We all make mistakes with grammar and spelling from time to time, but this one is like scratching on a chalkboard to me. I think some people think it's cute. I don't think illiteracy is cute.
To is used with verbs. For example, "I want to eat the whole apple pie." It is a preposition, like "for" and "towards". ie: "Take it to the house."
Too is an adverb, like "in excess" or "overly". ie: "I'm too heavy!" Too also means "as well". ie: "I'm happy too!"
Two = 2
I feel better now that I've gotten this off my chest! Now I can look forward to going outside so I can fill the water trough and throw two bales out for my horses too.....in -30 degrees. In response to your post: -30 degrees is too cold to be going outside! If I were you, I would have to move somewhere warmer so that I could enjoy my two horses everyday of the year. Perhaps you would be interested in moving to Florida, our temps are supposed to go up to 85 degrees today! Unless, of course, that is too warm for your liking! I happen to think it's just too gorgeous outside not to ride two horses today!
Seriously, I hate the mistakes made not just with the above words but also...there/their/they're etc.
Edited by runs4fun 2013-12-05 9:02 AM
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| I'll add "quiet and quite" to the list. I'm seeing lots of horse ads that indicate horse is "quite in the alley". Doesn't that just mean he's near or almost to the alley?
Also the improper use of "add and ad". If you are advertising a horse for sale, it's an "ad", not "add".
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BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Honestly, when I was in the 3rd grade, if I repeatedly made these kinds of mistakes, the teacher would first take me aside and set things straight. If it continued, then she would use me as a "teaching example" in front of the class. If that didn't work, I would have to stay after school and she would work with me one-on-one until I got it right. There was no acceptable excuse for sounding like a moron back in those days. |
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| Speaking of pet peeves....why, oh WHY, do some people insist on jogging or riding a bike on the road when the sidewalk is 15 feet away?  |
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Location: Never in one place long | Yep, drives me crazy TOO! I will actually in a light hearted way correct people on fb if I feel they won't get too upset! I feel I'm doing them a favor from looking like an idiot!
A few other words I have been seeing misspelled lately are....
Since spelled sense!
moot spelled mute!
A lot spelled alot!
Drives me crazy!
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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| Nazis!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha ha, I'm just as tyrannical, Facebook makes me crazy. Memes that have incorrect spelling and awful grammar make my brain go fuzzy! |
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| Advise used instead of Advice - I see this here all the time! Advice is given. The act of giving advice is called advising (to advise)... |
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| shellyh1971 - 2013-12-05 6:39 AM
A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea.
And I saw a piece on the news this morning that "fast food" workers are complaining about minimum wages - they want $15 per hour. WTF? If you have minimal skills, minimal education, and minimal production for a minimal job (not saying everyone is like this) then why should you expect to make $15 an hour? Some things I just don't understand. |
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Location: Never in one place long | brlraceaddict - 2013-12-05 11:20 AM
shellyh1971 - 2013-12-05 6:39 AM
A billboard I saw at McDonalds the other day
Stop in, and try are fries
It wasnt really fries they were saying to try, it was something else, but you get the idea.
And I saw a piece on the news this morning that "fast food" workers are complaining about minimum wages - they want $15 per hour. WTF? If you have minimal skills, minimal education, and minimal production for a minimal job (not saying everyone is like this ) then why should you expect to make $15 an hour? Some things I just don't understand.
That's another one I've been seeing ALL THE TIME.... are is not OUR!! Drives me crazy! |
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| I've even seen "wants and once" used incorrectly - by a businessman!
Wants we get started the job should take about 2 weeks. |
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