Call me a spelling Nazi if you must...
I can't stand seeing a misspelled word or the wrong word being used in a sentence.
When it starts happening at the CBC, then I really worry. In the introduction to one of the weekly podcasts I receive, Between the Covers, it says, and I quote, "the holiday season is past for us". That would be okay if it said "the holiday season is in the past for us" or "the holiday season has passed for us". I also read something on another site that irritated me, I think it was the BBC! The writer used "loose" when it should have been "lose".
It is even spreading into print journalism. I know that my grammar is not always the best and could use some work at times, but I can't help but get irritated by this constant misuse of words. I totally lose interest in what is being said if there are too many errors. Some writers depend too much on spell check.
What misuse of words irritates you or drives you to distraction? The worst for me is the above "lose/loose", I see it everywhere.
When it starts happening at the CBC, then I really worry. In the introduction to one of the weekly podcasts I receive, Between the Covers, it says, and I quote, "the holiday season is past for us". That would be okay if it said "the holiday season is in the past for us" or "the holiday season has passed for us". I also read something on another site that irritated me, I think it was the BBC! The writer used "loose" when it should have been "lose".
It is even spreading into print journalism. I know that my grammar is not always the best and could use some work at times, but I can't help but get irritated by this constant misuse of words. I totally lose interest in what is being said if there are too many errors. Some writers depend too much on spell check.
What misuse of words irritates you or drives you to distraction? The worst for me is the above "lose/loose", I see it everywhere.
Lose/loose is just one of many that get under my skin, but I'm trying my darndest to ignore the decline of English, since it's well underway and probably irreversible. Books from major publishing house are showing up with laughable errors, usually of word usage, and journalism is hopeless. And then there's that line from one of the Lord of the Rings films: "The hobbit is amazingly resilient to the power of the ring." Argh!
What's in a word
I see publisher's blurbs all the time and the English is awful.
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If I write a document something for serious professionals, I get it proofread by two people.
When blogging I don't much care and if it has a few spelling errors so what? Most of what is written takes less than 30 minutes and is as disposable as a tissue.
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