Thursday Threesome

Onesome: Ain't- There's a lot of slang floating around out there. Some of it has even found its way into the dictionary. Is there any one word that you find more annoying than others? That you just wish would fall off the face of the planet, never to be heard again?

"Whazzup?" said in that Bronx cheer spitting voice.

Twosome: It- It's/Its, they're/their/there. Just a few of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language. So the question is, when you blog, do you worry about grammar, punctuation and spelling? If you notice a typo do you go back and edit? Or do you shrug it off because everyone makes typos?

Get real. I was an English major. I obsess over this type of thing. :-)

Threesome: Purty?- Purty/pretty, crick/creek, warsh/wash. All common pronunciations, whether they sound pretty or not. And one is mispronounced. What's one commonly mispronounced word that just drives you nuts?

The name of the place where I work, mispronounced constantly on the news. It's Centers for Disease Control, guys. Centers, not Center. There's an "s" at the end. (Oh, honorable mention: the name of that popular HBO show about the Mafia. "The Soprannnnnos." It's "ah," folks, not "ann." It's Italian. "Soprahnos.")

They forgot to ask which spelling error drives you bats the most. For me it's "lose" spelled "loose." "I was afraid we were going to loose the house." (You mean if you let it go it attacks someone?) C'mon, this is fourth grade stuff.

(My own personal pet--pun intended--peeve? "Dalmations." It's Dalmatians. Those spotted dogs made popular by Disney are Dalmatians. They're originally from Dalmatia. DVD and video stores spell it this way on the alphabetical dividers and on sale flyers even when they have the correct spelling in front of them. Arrgh!)

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