Pet peeves on words

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Old 01-08-2008, 03:28 AM
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Mute when moot is meant, drives me bonkers.
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When people write and say for instance something is "to small" which should be "too small".
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Barb, he used to do editing and would be shocked, at times, when he read what authors would write.

At times he not only corrected the grammar, which he expected, but authors would state the wrong names of Presidents and other information pertinent to the subject matter and numerous other content errors.

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So far I haven't seen a problem you'se guys....

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So far I haven't seen a problem you'se guys....
Shouldn't that be, "So far I ain't seen a problem wd youse guys?"
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