ARGH! For the love of whatever you hold most dear or holy, learn the difference between every day and everyday. Yes, Virginia, there really is a difference. One is an adjective and the other is an adverb. One does not “go to the mall everyday” but one does “go to the mall every day”.
I know. I know. This isn’t the best, nor even the worst, rant ever posted. I’m just tired of seeing everyday used in print when the other one (the adverb) should be used. Here is an example: “Great savings everyday!” Sorry. No. That’s not correct. Okay. Sure. Maybe your customers do save a lot shopping at your store instead of your competitors’. The issue isn’t the veracity of your claim. The issue is your inability to write the language correctly.
Oh, yes. I did contact the perpetrator of that example. The response was that it is quite obvious that I am the one unaware of correct English usage. I guess this is it. The “dumbing down of America” has reached the saturation point.
Again, I know this isn’t the best, nor even the worst, rant ever posted here. Let’s just say it’s on the same level as complaints about alot.
Related misspellings I’ve actually encountered from those who are supposedly native speakers of the English language and supposedly have a good education:
[ul][li]everyweek[/li][li]everymonth[/li][li]everyyear[/ul][/li]
Those aren’t just accidental misspellings. In each case (or should I say eachcase?), the writer has used those spellings consistently.
The everyday/every day thing annoys me too! I see it every day. It’s an everyday thing. But I’ve almost given up on trying to educate people about it, figuring it’s a lost cause by now.
An annoying thing I’ve seen recently is when people spell “each other” as one word (“eachother.”) Where the fuck does that come from?
As a no doubt record spring thaw is rapidly approaching, there a lot of tv commercials, on the local station, suddenly from companies who deal with wet basement issues.
One I see most everyday finishs up with, “Your experts for all things basementy!”
This is why my everyday complaints usually include a couple of adjectives between “every” and “day”. As in, “Why does our network go down every . . . single . . . fucking . . . day???”
Because in this case the prefix in- is not negatory, but means in, on or upon generally speaking. Many words that come to english via old french changed the i to an e, but not always. Flammable and inflammable mean the same thing for the same reason that scribe and inscribe mean the same thing.
Everyone bitches about alot. No one bitches about another.
Yes. It’s the same as the difference between “cloth” and “clothe,” or between “loath” and “loathe.” (I am loath to bring that one up, but I loathe it when people use the wrong word.)
He was told it one day when he met the Beatles back in the 60s because he’s British, you know. (This is a reasonable approximation of all of the stories Noone tells during his Saturday show on SiriusXM.)
I approve of this rant. It particularly annoys me when I see “everyday” misused in places it definitely shouldn’t be, like actual ads presumably created by actual ad agencies.
Let me add another one: “looser” as an insult. Saw this in some online comments yesterday: “Get a clue looser!” to which I was compelled to reply: “Looser than what?”