This website is very interesting to me, and I figure VinceZeb could benefit from it more than anyone.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/erro...rs.html#errors
I found it when I saw someone here say "for all intensive purposes", which I've always thought was supposed to be "for all intents and purposes". So I did a web search, found out I was correct, and discovered this website in the bargain.
That paragraph reminds me that another pet peeve of mine is when people say "suppose to" or "use to" instead of "supposed to" or "used to".
Another one that bothers me is "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less".
Some of these are interesting, and I never knew about before. For example, "all goes well" is supposed to be "augers well". And "you've got another thing coming" is actually supposed to be "you've got another think coming"! Who knew? "Fit the bill" is also more correctly "fill the bill".
This is pretty damned interesting.
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