to/too

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

She use to carve pumpkins.....

vs.

she used to carve pumpkins

which is it?

[Soulstation1]

disc or disk??

[Free For All]

piqued/peaked

As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter)

[Joe G]

piqued/peaked

As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter)

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Include an extra "that", or leave it out? "...although you'd thing that that would be a logical use..."

[Free For All]

piqued/peaked

As in "It piqued his curiousity". (not peaked, although you'd think that would be a logical use of the latter)

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Include an extra "that", or leave it out? "...although you'd thing that that would be a logical use..."

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Of that I'm not sure. Of.

[Kalo]

piqued/peaked

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This one's similar: faze/phase

faze = embarrass, disconcert.

phase = a stage of development, a temporary pattern, an aspect or part, etc.

Yet I see this mistake all the time: "It didn't phase me at all..."

Edited August 13, 2005 by Kalo

[Swinging Swede]

past/passed

Just saw in another thread that someone had past out, and I've seen this error several times before.

[1ngram]

Its amazing the amount of people who get these things wrong. This is my pet hate, using amount for number and sometimes vice versa.

[J.A.W.]

My pet hate is still Fuschia instead of Fuchsia. The flower was named after 16th Century botanist Dr Fuchs.

[Joe G]

Don't be hating your pets!

Or petting your hates, for that matter.

[Dr. Rat]

My pet hate is still Fuschia instead of Fuchsia. The flower was named after 16th Century botanist Dr Fuchs.

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It really flips me off that people constantly mispronounce mise en scene.

Man that makes me mad!

--eric

[BruceH]

Here/hear.

[J.A.W.]

Possessive pronouns:

there's instead of theirs

it's instead of its

[J.A.W.]

Possessive pronouns:

there's instead of theirs

it's instead of its

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who's instead of whose

[neveronfriday]

There is a difference between "then" and "than".

There really is.

[king ubu]

There is a difference between "then" and "than".

There really is.

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Than tell us what diffrence their is!

[DukeCity]

What about those nutty apostrophes? I think the plural of CD looks better as CDs, but I very often see CD's.

I vote we all switch over to speaking Esperanto!

[Jim R]

She use to carve pumpkins.....

  vs.

she used to carve pumpkins

which is it? 

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I see this went unanswered

Before her unfortunate accident, she used to carve pumpkins. Not only that, she used to live in Iowa.

What kind of tool did she use to carve pumpkins?

There's the tool that she used to carve pumpkins.

Has that tool been used to carve pumpkins? If so, I have no use for that tool. I mean, what's the use of using a used pumpkin-carving tool? I used to use a used pumpkin-carving tool, but I just couldn't get used to it.

NEXT!