Speeling/punkuwation/grammer for the unlearned

[BlackEclipse]

their / there

Usage examples:

My car is over there on the side of the road.
There is a monster in my pants.
Why is their dog running loose and not tied up?
Their cat has been digging in our flower bed.

it's / its

"it's" is a contraction for "it is"
"its" is possessive (silly, this is not a plural)

Usage examples:

It's a long walk back to the car.
Its bark is worse than its bite.

too / to / two

Usage examples:

I'm going to kill you.
We need two volunteers.
Can I go too?

due / do / dew

There is dew on the grass this morning.
Do not make a mistake.
These books are due back at the library.


and....



Volkswagen is not spelled Volkswagon

[EvolvedDSM]

Thank god! I've been pondering doing this myself :thumb

Another: they're (conjuction) as in they + are = they're

They're going to teach you things in elementary school.

Barrow / borrow (also tomarrow / tomorrow)

Borrow, verb
1. To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.
2. To adopt or use as one's own.
3. In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.

Barrow, noun
1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand.
2. A large mound of earth or stones placed over a burial site.
3. A pig that has been castrated before reaching sexual maturity.

Tomorrow, noun
1. The day following today.
2. The future.

Tomarrow, unknown
1. No entry found

More to come...

[EvolvedDSM]

sense/since/cents

affect/effect

duel/dual

no/know/now

sweet/sweat

scary/scarry

quit/quite/quiet

sale/sell

your/you're

advise/advice

break/brake

"break" is what your car does when you push on either of the outside pedals....."brake" is what your car does when you press on the middle pedal.



Then there is the god-awful use of an 's when making shit plural.

The latest shit seems to be typing 300$ instead of $300.

Makes me want to punch Ken in the face



Congradulations (aka congrads) is not a fucking word ding-a-ling

It's congratulations (aka congrats).

[GSXLR8]

here's a biggy.... "tonite" is spelled "TONIGHT"! it is only one extra letter people...spell it right! that is another one....the word is not "rite"

[GSXLR8]

a mite is something that lives in dust particles...."might" would be appropriate in the phrase "someday, I might learn to spell"