April 30, 2009

Early morning pedantry

Ahem. To all the otherwise-talented writers in the blogosphere:

People are unfazed by setbacks, not unphased (unless they're characters on Star Trek).

Likewise, the operator of a restaurant is a restaurateur, not a restauranteur.

If you're not winning and it's not a tie, you're losing, not loosing.

I know I'm probably swimming against the tide here, but still.

Posted by Linkmeister at April 30, 2009 08:49 AM | TrackBack
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You are *SO* swimming against the tide.

I have students who use "tomarrow," "manor" (for manner), and "weather" (for whether).

I'm sure there are more ...

Posted by: tomorrow at April 30, 2009 10:00 AM

Ok, you have peaked my curiosity? Wherefore did you find these errors? It begs the question of how I can find some for myself

Because I hate to see someone suffering from peoples little mis-hearings.

(for some reason after the first three my mind went blank on that sort of thing, though I have a laundry list of them which I see too damned often)

Posted by: Terry Karney at May 3, 2009 06:07 PM