NBR Poll: IHO my co-worker

Re: NBR Poll: IHO my co-worker

• punkfiction

  March 2009

  the simple "your/youre" and "to/too" and "who's/whose".

  i also don't like "could care less"
  

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• clarice928

  March 2009

  Improper use of apostrophes -- it drives me up the wall.  I've even seen it on professional signs for businesses!! 
  

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• Agrippa

  March 2009

  clarice928:

  Improper use of apostrophes -- it drives me up the wall.  I've even seen it on professional signs for businesses!! 
  

  Ditto.  Last year, I drove by a sign outside a fire station that said "Volunteer's Wanted" every day on my way to and from work.  I really wanted to pull over and steal that apostrophe!
  

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• niceneese

  March 2009

  alot

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• MNheidi member

  March 2009

  we had over 300 people there - NO YOU DID NOT.  you had more than 300 people there.
  

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• habsoilers

  March 2009

  fewer than, less than

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• linzpinz14

  March 2009

  double negatives - but you hear them more when people talk then in writing.

   Here's my grammar confession - I still don't know when to use than/then.  Like I don't even know if I used it correctly in the 1st sentence.

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• KittenGator member

  March 2009

  linzpinz14:

  double negatives - but you hear them more when people talk then in writing.

   Here's my grammar confession - I still don't know when to use than/then.  Like I don't even know if I used it correctly in the 1st sentence.

  Than is for comparison. More than, less than. Then is for time. We went to the movies then to the store.

  DD and I. DD: 6/22/2008. DS: 6/22/2013

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• KittenGator member

  March 2009

  linzpinz14:

  double negatives - but you hear them more when people talk then in writing.

  ?Here's my grammar confession - I still don't know when to use than/then.? Like?I don't even know if I used it correctly in the 1st sentence.

  Than is for comparison. More than, less than. Then is for time. We went to the movies then to the store.

  DD and I. DD: 6/22/2008. DS: 6/22/2013

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• KittenGator member

  March 2009

  linzpinz14:

  double negatives - but you hear them more when people talk then in writing.

  ?Here's my grammar confession - I still don't know when to use than/then.? Like?I don't even know if I used it correctly in the 1st sentence.

  Than is for comparison. More than, less than. Then is for time. We went to the movies then to the store.

  DD and I. DD: 6/22/2008. DS: 6/22/2013

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• ronnie day

  March 2009

  Just about anything my boss writes has an error in it.  I have just learned to deal

  She also says "deaf" instead of "depth" and that drives me banana sandwich
  

  My Book Blog A Lucy, a lost tube, two lost babies, and another on the way!

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• just13nat

  March 2009

  When people say "exspecially" instead of "especially."  I hear it all the time!

  

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• LoriFalce member

  March 2009

  Mine is from a billboard for the newspaper I worked at for 20 years.

  "We're tops in local news."

  It was the motto, and there's no problem with that. Except that this one billboard was missing the apostrophe. So instead, it said "Were tops in local news." Like we used to be, but now, not so much.

  The saddest thing? After I told the publisher, that billboard was still up for two years because they refunded the cost instead of fixing it. So we just looked like we were careless and illiterate, exactly the message you want to convey for a newspaper.

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• JuneMommy2B

  March 2009

  One I see on here all the time that drives me batty is "that" instead of "who"--for example "Moms that FF come in" instead of  "moms who ff come in"

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