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Jason

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I see these all the time:

would of
could of
should of

*&^%$

:Soapbox: :rant::e2poke::mob:

For f***s sake people, would've is a contraction, not two words. It's

would have
could have
should have
 

Lillian_Blaire

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Don't get me started on this. "I could care less" is my most hated. If you COULD care less, then you must care some. The expression is, "I couldn't care less." Makes me CRAZY.

But yeah, don't get me started. I could of named a bunch more. (Haha. Just kidding! Could have.)
 

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Beg the question. Aaaarrrrgggghhh.

I've given up on that one. It's at the same level as using literally when one means figuratively.
 

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I all but ran to share this one I just now saw. Someone on Facebook who disagreed with a political opinion a friend voiced told him to "waddle in his misery." I about died laughing.

Maryn, not dead yet
 

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Investigating a small e-publisher that an acquaintance has signed with, I found this in the "About U" section on their website:

"We are not a vanity or subsidiary publishing house."

Nor, evidently, do they know the difference between "subsidiary" and "subsidy." I hope the editing for their books is better...
 

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"We are not a vanity or subsidiary publishing house."

Nor, evidently, do they know the difference between "subsidiary" and "subsidy." I hope the editing for their books is better...

I think they might have meant that they aren't a subsidiary of one of the big 5 (6?)
 

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Hahaha!

Most of the ones I've seen lately are clearly not from native speakers, who get a pass unless they're telling me they want to be writers.
 

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That one just sets my teeth to aching. I see it more from UK people than US, Canadian, or Australian, but still, gimme a freakin' break. It's not the same word, and I had this down by third or fourth grade.

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With my brain, nobody notices...

Not long ago I started following local news on Twitter. The newspaper does a good job, but they're slower to post breaking stories than TV stations. The TV people are quick, but they cannot spell, and it's not just when a story breaks and they're racing to be first. They'll repeat the same misspelling or misuse of a word for days. I finally had to unfollow. "Piece of mind" wouldn't even be a stretch.
 

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A friend of a friend posted photos on Facebook from Trafalgar Square a couple of years ago. She was frolicking with the pigeons and had captioned the photo with lyrics from the Mary Poppins song "Feed the Birds." But apparently, she wasn't familiar with British pre-decimal currency and went with:

Feed the birds, toppins a bag,
Toppins, toppins, toppins a bag
 

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Is this the place to complain about people who use 'bias' as an adjective? Because I am bias against those people.
 

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"She was raped by a male penis."

This may not count, but while checking my email today I found this subject line: "Beeing a might chap" If you're going to spam porn at least learn how to spell.
 

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It would have caused less damage, I presume, had it been a female penis.

Alongside bias as a verb, allow me to add sex. Can I come over and sex you? Ugh, no. I will only sex with people who can defend their use of the Oxford comma.