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most annoying misspelled words
Stanley Hu, Photographer
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Cambridge | MA | USA | Posted: 1:34 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Since this is a place for learning, how about going back to the basics?
There are some misspelled words that keep showing up in this board. They are:
"a lot" is TWO words (not alot)
"definitely" not definately
What are your favorites? |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Lewiston | ID | USA | Posted: 1:36 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> using loose when a person means lose.
lose- not winning
loose- not tight |
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Robert Seale, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 1:39 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> your - you're
get it right people. |
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Joe Gosen, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 2:07 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> there
their
they're |
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Adam Carpenter, Photographer
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Fremont | CA | USA | Posted: 2:13 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Stanley - Thank-you so much for this thread.
Robert - You picked my biggest peeve.
But, let's add these:
to - preposition
too - adverb |
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Patrick Kane, Student/Intern
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Richmond | VA | USA | Posted: 2:13 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> www.sportshooter.com ;) |
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Richard Walker, Photographer
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Honolulu | HI | USA | Posted: 2:17 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Your write, thier are alot of people who are to lose with they're spelling. |
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darrell miho, Photographer
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Temple City | CA | usa | Posted: 2:22 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> *LMAO* and walker brings down the house. my side hurts now. |
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Darren Carroll, Photographer
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Cedar Creek (Austin) | TX | USA | Posted: 8:35 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Well, "lens" (no "e") and "loose" vs. "lose" have already been covered (I always wonder what mayhem ensues when someone "looses" a long "lense" on the sidelines at a football game...), so how about:
its vs. it's
who's vs. whose
further vs. farther
As Mr. Seale said, get it right, people.
And while we're at it:
"Media" and "Data" are PLURAL. The media never "is" anything, and the data never "shows" something.
And there is nothing in this world that is ever "comprised OF" anything.
When I hear any of the above, it just makes me want to split an infinitive... |
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Chris Jennings, Photographer, Assistant
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Sherman | TX | USA | Posted: 8:36 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Let me just say that I am the last person that needs to speak up when it comes to proper grammar, but there are a few that I see on occasion.
Cannon
teh instead of the (I do this all the time when I'm typing to fast)
I have "a" elephant - Should be an, just remember your vowels, a,e,i,o,u. |
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Richard Ritari, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 8:45 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Darren - But don't you just love the drama of a dangling participle that a good sentence is often made with?
(My personal peeves are your/you're & to/too) |
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Dirk Dewachter, Photographer, Assistant
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Playa Del Rey | CA | USA | Posted: 8:54 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> My last name |
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Matt Cashore, Photographer
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South Bend | IN | USA | Posted: 8:56 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> This is exactly the sort of nonsense up with I shall not put.
(Winston Churchill...can't take credit for that one) |
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Darren Carroll, Photographer
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Cedar Creek (Austin) | TX | USA | Posted: 9:01 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Richard:
"...that a good sentence is often made with?"
How DARE you??? :-)
Forgot to mention that my own special place in linguistic hell is reserved for people who spell "grammAr" with an "e." |
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Mike Pittman, Photographer
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Raleigh | NC | USA | Posted: 9:14 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Not a misspelling, but "irregardless." I hate that word so much. And despite the fact that I'd like to say it's not a word, it is. I still hate it though. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 9:50 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> My last name. Even though it's printed right freakin' above my posts, I'm still attributed as Whitte, Wittie, White. |
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Nick Doan, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Scottsdale | AZ | USA | Posted: 9:57 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Don't forget Witty. |
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Jon Blacker, Photographer
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Toronto | ON | Canada | Posted: 9:58 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> I am also in complete agreement with Mike on 'irregardless', and since we have slightly deviated from the spelling theme anyway, I am compelled to chime in with GENERAL consensus.
Chris: While that too makes me cringe, there are exceptions to many of those vowel rules (you also left out 'and sometimes Y' in you list of vowels). For example, "We are witness to AN historic event each time Sportsshooter.com adds a new feature to the site."
Semantics, relative clauses, litotes, homonyms....ah, ain't English grand ;-)
Here is a great grammar reference: http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html |
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Jon Blacker, Photographer
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Toronto | ON | Canada | Posted: 10:02 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Thomas,
Welcome to my world.
If I had a dollar for every 'h' that gets added to my name....
Take solice in the fact though, that those who do spell it correctly are paying attention. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 10:05 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> OK, I can't spell very well (I'm sure many of you are aware of this), but can't stand "irregardless" or "snuck."
Regardless of how you are using "snuck" is not a real word, sneaked is a word. |
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Craig Mitchelldyer, Photographer, Assistant
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Milwaukie (Portland) | OR | USA | Posted: 10:08 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> colour...... yeah, yeah, I know, its proper, but not in AMERICA! Its Color. That's just my pet peeve. |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington | IL | United States | Posted: 10:10 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> brain - what's supposed to be in your head
Brian - a person |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 10:16 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Craig:
Go find my 9th grade English teacher who was from Canada, he was here on a one year exchange and got the whole damn class spelling everything with a "u" in the middle. He was always correcting spellings and adding a "u." Go spend a year at a boarding school against your will, where essentially it was the job of the teachers to break people (not kidding), and you will find the reason why I spell everything using Canadian/Euro English
Sorry |
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David Johnson, Photographer
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Social Circle | GA | USA | Posted: 10:18 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. |
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Richard Orr, Photographer
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Longmeadow | MA | USA | Posted: 10:20 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> I hate, Mute Point. It is "moot", which means not relevant. Mute means not being able to make a sound.
Another one I hate is "at this point in time." It is either "at this point" or "at this time." ATPIT is redundant. |
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Jason Orth, Photographer
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Raymond | NE | USA | Posted: 10:25 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> I'm with Bruce on the "lose" vs. "loose" issue. That's at the top of my list. It bothers me even more that I'm seeing it in magazines and newspapers now.
Number two is using possessive's (sic) instead of the plural form. |
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Rick Burnham, Photographer
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Enfield | CT | USA | Posted: 10:31 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> I know I am always guilty of the "alot" misspelling.
On a side note when I was working for the fire department one of my fellow captains was the world's worst speller. His favorite (ok Steve, favourite) was the word "upon" he would use "apon" and when the spell checker would pick it out he would cancel it because he STILL thought it was right. It got so bad in the fire station that the firefighters would correct his spelling and grammar on his memo's with a red pen and then assign it a grade.
As a joke at our annual banquet we gave him a pocket dictionary with all the "good" words highlghted in yellow for easy reference.
I hope I spelled everything right I am still a bit bleary eyed lol. |
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Robert Seale, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 10:41 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Ugh.....magazine writers who think they are being clever by using latin or German phrases....
Not a month goes by that I don't see some jerk in Vanity Fair or Esquire being called a "Wunderkind" or a "uber-" something.....and my own vision of hell is full of people who throw around the word "zeitgeist" like they actually use it in daily conversation.
"For his part....." at the beginning of a sentence is also a useless waste of trees and paper.
ex...."For his part, Matt Damon said he actually likes the feeling of a live gerbil in his ass." |
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Amanda Caines, Photographer, Student/Intern
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New Castle | DE | | Posted: 11:06 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> From a native South Carolinian - it's y'all. Not ya'll, or any of the other misspellings I see so often. It's a contraction of "you all."
And a phrase that makes me cringe every time I hear it - and my dear mother says it at least once every time I talk to her:
"I could care less"
It's "I COULDN'T care less. If you could care less, you obviously care some! |
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Bill Frakes, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:14 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Each and every one. |
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Richard Orr, Photographer
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Longmeadow | MA | USA | Posted: 11:16 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> Robert,
But aren't many feeling some schadenfreude about Jacko these days?
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) |
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David A. Cantor, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 11:29 AM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> My all-time favorite from another listserv was the time Frischling wrote preverbal for proverbial.....While it's not a word, could you imagine a preverbal Frischling????? |
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Brent McCown, Photographer
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Hastings | NE | USA | Posted: 11:33 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> there used to be a kid who played sports in my old coverage area whose last name was "Fuchs"
it ALWAYS made the sports guys nervous. |
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Conor O'Healy, Photographer
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Beaverton | OR | USA | Posted: 11:58 AM on 11.21.03 |
->> I hate it when people spell my name Connor, Conner, Coner or any other variation that is not correct. Even when I spell it out for them, people often repeat it back to me incorrectly.
Also my last name. So many companies can't handle ' in O'Healy, or they don't capitalize the "H". It's always a problem with their computers. Drives me nuts.
One of these days I am going to bring a discrimination lawsuit against a company who tells me they can't handle the apostrophe in my name. I figure its discrimination against the Irish.
Conor with 1 "N" and no "E". |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 12:09 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> Cantor:
I want to thank you for slitting my wrists aand standing over me with fresh lemon juice for so long :0) |
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Brian Jackson, Photographer
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South San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 12:32 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> Alan. Try having the name of Brian!! For an entire year at city college, my name was "brain jackson"!! ;)
Ironically, even though we have ass loads of dictionaries and grammar books, I believe there is no governing body for the English language, neither British nor American variants, so technically, we can spell things however we want and use whatever grammatical syntax we'd like :-D |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Amherst | MA | USA | Posted: 12:38 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> Brain (or is that Brian?)
Thanx ewes fore bringin up thatz we don't kneed know universale spelling for English :0)
This will make my life much easier
.........then again thanks to cut and paste I sent 22 photos from an NFL playoff game with "Massachusetts" spelled wrong in the IPTC header info.....oops....maybe I should keep working on my spelling.....or pop for the $125 in a month when the new Photo Mechanic for Mac comes out with a spell checker |
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Michael McNamara, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:40 PM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> we probably won't see this one for about 8 more months, but "laua" |
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Adam Carpenter, Photographer
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Fremont | CA | USA | Posted: 12:53 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> It's bad enough if they misspell your name, but you would be shocked (probably not after this thread) how often I've been asked to spell my last name for people! Even after I reference a construction trade, people still wonder whether it's "dar" or "der".
Oh, there's another - weather - whether |
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Jamie Hickey, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Calgary | AB | Canada | Posted: 1:05 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> People ask me how to pronounce my last name all the time - how else could you possibly pronounce it? I'm not sure.
Actually, the first name thing is one that really bothers me as well. Especially on message boards or in emails - BOTH of my emails have my first name in them as part of the address. Yet almost half the mail I get has my name spelt wrong.
Oh - any form of chatspeak makes me cringe, but the following list are the ones I really really really hate:
u instead of you
meh instead of my
wut instead of what
peeps instead of people
anything that ends in z instead of s
skool instead of school
r instead of are |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Paris | TX | USA | Posted: 1:30 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> BAD SPELLERS OF THE WORLD -- UNTIE!! I AM YOUR MASTER ...
Seriously, you may never in this lifetime meet someone who has less knack for spelling than yours' truly. I cannot spell to save my life ... in fact, I don't really even know how to spell "life." Thank God for spell check ...
While perusing the message boards I usually have a blank Outlook Express email open for quick spell checking. The really sad thing is that when I was a little kid I was fairly adept at spelling ... won a few "bees" and what-not. Those days are long gone, though, and I have the computer and its spell-checking abilities to blame, as I also have cell phone "phone books" to blame for completely losing my ability to remember phone numbers. Argh.
Adam -- on a brief aside, when I'm running around in the field shooting wild art and the like, I ALWAYS ask people to spell their names, no matter how obvious that spelling might be (had a guy named Joe Smith get pretty pissed at me once). I'd rather have them think me an idiot than make an assumption about the spelling of their name, get it wrong and have my editor talking about it the following day. And besides, you know what happens when you make an assumption, right?
You make an ass of YOU and UMPTION, which is never a good thing.
- g - |
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Colin Corneau, Photographer
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Brandon | MB | Canada | Posted: 1:33 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> ->> colour...... yeah, yeah, I know, its proper, but not in AMERICA! Its Color. That's just my pet peeve.
I've thought about that Craig..but hey, I type my posts from within Canada. :)
Maybe on the next Luau, if I post I'll use American spellings...when in Rome, etc. |
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Rick Burnham, Photographer
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Enfield | CT | USA | Posted: 2:02 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> A preverbal Frischling??? Only when he was an infant and then probably not for long.
And now more of those chat room, e-mail, ghetto/rapper type shortcuts:
aight=alright
prolly=probably
b4=before |
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Rachael Golden, Photographer
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 2:16 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> my name is rachAel and most people spell it wrong. The most common spelling is Rachel, but one newspaper gave my photo credit to someone named Rehcal Golden.
"Can I help who's next?" drives me crazy. It is either "Can I help whomever is next?" or "Who's next?" I have never gone so far as to correct anyone, but one day I will snap. |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Sherman Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 2:29 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> They're, their and there has been covered, as has you're and your. Thanks for those.
Another big one is "ect." for "etc.". It's an abbreviation of the latin "et cetera". At least people don't screw up "et al", since nobody ever uses it any more.
I don't mind minor misspellings, I hate the ones that aren't because one finger is faster than the other. There is dictionary.com...
BTW, never use a preposition to end a sentence with. ;-) |
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Michael McNamara, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 2:33 PM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Tony, can you say that over? |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Sherman Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 2:35 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> "That over."
;-)
post scriptum: I've often been accused in being from the department of redundancy department. |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Sherman Oaks | CA | USA | Posted: 2:37 PM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> of, not in... fingers faster than brain today. Ugh. |
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Byron Hetzler, Photographer
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Granby | CO | USA | Posted: 2:48 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> Everyone has covered most of my favorites, so I'll jump on the name bandwagon, my name is Byron, B-Y-R-O-N, not Brian, Bryan, or Bryon.
The Denver Post once credited one of my photos as "Photo by Ron Hetzler" |
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Richard Ritari, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 2:54 PM on 11.21.03 |
| ->> Maybe someone here could "axe" me a question? (Or is that only a southern thing?) |
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Al Goldis, Photographer
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East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 3:02 PM on 11.21.03 |
->> Most of the common captioning errors have been covered (loose/lose) so I'll move slightly off topic to my greatest spelling beef.
Preventive medicine. Preventive maintenance. It's preventive--not "preventative." "Preventative" is a self-contained redundancy. "Preventative" is not a word. Oh fine, technically, yes it is a word but only because an endless stream of morons have forced it into the dictionary.
Another word isn't misspelled but is often mispronounced: Nuclear. New-clee-ar. Not new-cue-ler.
P.S.: Wow, I'm absolutely terrified about making a mistake (or is it misteak?) in this thread. ;-) |
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