your a looser lol
More than 60 posts and no one has mentioned the led/lead problem? I see this a lot these days: “Like lambs lead to slaughter.” Uh, no. The past tense of the verb “to lead” sounds like the element “lead,” but is spelled “led.”
And the problem with the less/fewer thing is that now many people think you should *never *use “less,” and are making mistakes the other way: It’s fewer than ten miles to the next stop.
I’m annoyed by the dictionary accepting “irregardless” as a word, just because people say it a lot.
That was a pun.
Many people don’t seem to know the difference between “advice” and “advise”. On on-line forums you will see people asking for “advise” over a particular problem.
Rigamarole is just a lose cannon. 
Head over to Collegehumor.com and check out “Sexy Spelling Song”. Kinda NSFW, but just barely. I’d link to it, but I’m at work.
Decimate does not, and, by the structure of the word itself, cannot, mean to destroy completely.
Anytime I hear, “The village was decimated,” I think to myself, “Well at least 90 percent survived.” Turns out that’s never the case.
I’ve noticed this one. A lot. I think spellcheck either auto-corrects or suggests a change and those who don’t know the difference just accept it. I wouldn’t advise it, but nobody asked my advice.
I’ve found spelling error in every book I have ever read. I guess the editors aren’t doing their jobs.
I have a hard time believing you folks haven’t noticed the misuse of brake for break…
as in “Give me a brake.” or “We were on our lunch brake and…”
Seems to be a younger generation thingie, but it drives me nutsoid.
It was mentioned in post #6.
Maybe they meant they were standing on a device that slows down lunch. 
Exacly.
:smack:
Well, I accidentally missed taht post.
I publicly delcare my ignorence on this subject. I’m greatful too you for publicly pointing this out.
I’ll confess that I didn’t even know about the discrete/discreet distinction until someone on this board pointed it out to me, a year or two ago. I knew the two different meanings, but had never realized that they were spelled differently. And when I told my mother (an elementary school teacher) about it, she hadn’t heard of it, either.
Now that I know, of course, I do make the effort to use the correct one. The easy way to remember is that the 'e’s in “discrete” are separated.
What’s with the recent substitution of “ect.” when the writer means “etc.”? I’ve only seen this error proliferate in the past 5 years.
Thats definetly the devise that I use for all intensive porpoises.
It’s a supressed desire for electroconvulsive therapy. All the kids are doing it these days.
(Not wishing to hijack… but a sermon with Power point? I think I’ve just seen a vision of hell…) 