Comments on: Top 10 Errors in English that Aren’t Errors

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:49:47 +0000

I’ll bet I made at least one spelling error just within that one post lol

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:44:13 +0000

How about the phrase “pretty much”? lol That one’s very common, very incorrect. How about a list (unless such a thing already exists) of the top misspelled words, that aren’t hard to spell: Hart (heart), beutiful (beautiful), tomarrow (tomorrow), etc…..

By: Nigel

Nigel — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:32:15 +0000

#4, you’re wrong. It’s “whom”, not who, as in, “to whom am I speaking.” whom is the pronoun for who, the removal of the usage from our vernacular directly leads to the confusion over who and that. “that” is not, in truth, an accurate replacement for “whom” as the former refers to objects and the latter peoples, however it is considered less wooden, for a population raised on corn syrup, Cheetos and commercial broadcasts.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:11:28 +0000

Ain’t is a multi-use contraction of am/are/is not. Why else would there be an ‘i’ in it?

By: vermilionskin

vermilionskin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:23:20 +0000

Well written

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:58:05 +0000

Although I agree with many of these, I don’t know how much I can trust a writer whose use of semicolons is so non-standard:
“True, one should be aware that many such sentences would be improved by becoming clauses in compound sentences; but there are many effective and traditional uses for beginning sentences in this way.”

Since there’s a conjuction after the semicolon, a comma would suffice.

By: Boz Worth

Boz Worth — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:35:03 +0000

Most of this is plainly wrong and all of it utterly void of authority. If you believe any of it, you need to spend time on a real grammar site.

By: mARC

mARC — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:57:10 +0000

You guyses are gooder then I at you’re grammers?

By: AliciaS

AliciaS — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:26:51 +0000

This is my kind of list! Whether you choose to use the correct grammar or not it’s nice to know what’s correct. On the other hand, as a snob i manage to think less of an educated person who uses bad grammar. It’s everywhere and it annoys the heck out of me. There was an interesting discussion in the comments of one List on (education) discrimination. It was funny to see people discussing the importance of higher education using incorrect English.

I’m sure there are errors in the last paragraph. I’m too lazy to correct them and its too difficult using an iPhone. I are an college dropout anyway. Ha ha.

One other thing, I believe that amen’t is the contraction for am not – not ain’t. At least that’s what I think my hardcore academic father told me years ago.

By: fed

fed — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:27:03 +0000

Me is bester on grammers.