This Instant And Moment - 2020!

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Pacific instead of Specific. How is it even possible to confuse it with the name of an ocean?

I've never seen that!

Most common one I've seen are

Bought/Brought
Which/Witch (Whicher 3 doesn't have the same tone to it)
You are/Your
Whether/Weather (I mean WTF?)
Know/No
Their/There
 
Just saw two more on Facebook :p ...

"Someone has took this video..."
correct me if I'm wrong but should it not be "someone has taken this video"

Also I just saw a comment on a video of a little kid and the person wrote "(name of person) this makes your kids look like angles" :o

My colleague had a pop at me once because she didn't hear the S when I said specific so I make a point of sounding out the S a bit longer now :D (only when I'm saying it to her though)
 
Also I just saw a comment on a video of a little kid and the person wrote "(name of person) this makes your kids look like angles" :o


I don't think your and you're, or there their and they're should be punishable by death, they're relatively minor and even people with a good grasp on the language occasionally mix them up when they are tired or flustered.

That can be two weeks in the gulag instead.
 
Geez, Louise. The state of the Brexit thread in SC.

I didn't think it was possible to be more angry and bitter than the last time I checked in there, but it has happened!

Remind me to give SC a wide berth until I've had my very own sense of humour bypass.
 
Just saw two more on Facebook :p ...

"Someone has took this video..."
correct me if I'm wrong but should it not be "someone has taken this video"

Also I just saw a comment on a video of a little kid and the person wrote "(name of person) this makes your kids look like angles" :o

My colleague had a pop at me once because she didn't hear the S when I said specific so I make a point of sounding out the S a bit longer now :D (only when I'm saying it to her though)

Also apostrophes. I appreciate they're tricky but good lord I see some bad errors. Autocorrect isn't helping, offering them up willy nilly.

'pecial lot your are!
 
I just found out the word is quashed and not squashed as I have said for the entirety of my shameful life. Off to find a hole to hide inside, I hope she doesn't mind.
 
I just found out the word is quashed and not squashed as I have said for the entirety of my shameful life. Off to find a hole to hide inside, I hope she doesn't mind.
Depends on the use surely?

Quash or Squash? Quash usually applies to government or government authority. It means "to annul" or "legally invalidate." Squash means "to squeeze" or "crush."
 
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