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Subject:Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke? From:"Char James-Tanny" <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:06:19 -0400
> Now I may be the only person who has that particular pet peeve, but as
> writers I know we all have them. My question for the list is this: what
> is your personal pet peeve of a misused, misspelled, or improper word
> choice, and what draconian measures would you impose on the education
> system to purge that error out of every grade-school student in any
> English classroom?
Not that any actually make me sick...just cringe ;-) In my case, it's
a tie between "amount/number" and "fewer/less".
Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.helpstuff.com
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