Westley for Wesley
“Smile your on camera.”
I also love people who proclaim publicly their pride in misunderstanding apostrophes, namely “The Robinson’s.”
This reminds me of the confusion of gantlet and gauntlet. It may be too late to separate (even using a rat!) the armored glove (gauntlet) from the row of parallel things one passes between [most commonly, in the idiomatic use of “passing between two rows of people striking the subject, as a punishment”] (gantlet), but I try to remember the difference.
Fictionaries! That’s great. Indeed, I just ran a gantlet of fictionaries before taking up the gauntlet and posting about this confusion.
Actually I was reading The Rescuers the other day, and it used stanch to mean staunch. That was published in England in the 1950s. I was surprised to see that variant in a published work.
64 posts and no “loose/lose” mention? The first 5 times I saw loose for lose I noted the typo and just kept reading, then for a while, I got madder and madder every time I saw it. Now I just get sadder and sadder and I see it at least once every day without fail. 
According to the Cambridge Online Dictionary:
Staunch means to stop the flow of something (cite here)
Stanch is the American version of staunch (cite here)
I though gauntlet was an acceptable alternative spelling of gantlet.
Post 19.
The person who broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games record was Cal Ripken (Jr.), NOT Cal Ripkin.
It’s not an error to drop “Jr.” in informal circumstances. Do you always refer to the president as “Barack H. Obama II”?
Ludovic needs fud, badly.
Too often I see people confusing “then” and “than.” Makes me stabby. Too often it is published news articles.
I think he was pointing out the Ripken/Ripkin distinction.
I haven’t quiet found the one I’m thinking about.
Well I made the discreet/discrete indiscretion yesterday. I really don’t see why people care about these things so much.
:smack:
Slightly obscure, but the creature the modern cow is descended from is an aurochs, not an auroch. Rhyme it with ‘ox’, not ‘ock’.
I once had a copy of ‘What Katy Did’ where every single use of the word ‘angel’ (and it occurs far too many times) was spelled ‘angle’.
‘Katy is a perfect angle!’.
The mind boggles.
I used to see “masterbate” a lot.
The one I can never get right the first time is maitenance. Maintanance? Maintenance.
That’s obtuse.