Get it Right!!!

[Ren]

<rant>
I am so sick of seeing "waiting with BAITed breath". What, are you putting worms in your mouth and waiting for fish?
NO! It's "waiting with BATED breath" as in "Abated" or to Hold a Breath...
...sigh...sad how much the english language has declined...8P
</rant>

Apologies to anyone whose been getting it wrong all along, but now you can get it right!

[Kali]

I have much the same reaction to people asserting that they could care less about something. 

Or people who "could of" done things.  It's COULD HAVE, you intellectually bankrupt couchmonkey.  Just because you pronounce "could've" 'could of' does NOT mean you get to spell it that way.

I fret that I am not legally permitted to shoot these people.  Fret, I say!

[snowbank]

reign is what monarchs do

rein is steering a horse

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

I am really unfeasibly annoyed about "despatch" and "dispatch" both being usable to mean both a) to send a message and b) to kill someone rather than one meaning one and the other the other, as any sensible language would sort out.

[Shecky]

I am really unfeasibly annoyed about "despatch" and "dispatch" both being usable to mean both a) to send a message and b) to kill someone rather than one meaning one and the other the other, as any sensible language would sort out.

Archaisms. That's the problem. The term and its spellings have shifted over time, and we haven't been left with a clear winner.

[LizW65]

"Alright" seems to have become acceptable through use, especially in British works, but it was drummed into our little heads in elementary school that it was definitely not all right.  The number of editors who overlook this one disturbs me.

[Aludra]

I really couldn't of cared less about these grammar fopaws.

And now I wait with baited breath to read your despatches on this comment.

It's alright though, I'm pretty sure you'll figure out I'm just pulling chains.

I hope it doesn't reign anymore today, though.  I'm sick and tired of it.

[Kali]

For all intensive purposes, that post was just a troll.

[Ren]

I am so glad I am not alone in this complaint...I have a T-shirt that reads; "English doesn't so much borrow from languages as it follows them down an alley, knocks them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar"

[Aludra]

For all intensive purposes, that post was just a troll.

Aww the 'intensive' purpose was to at least get a smirk out of you.

[Kali]

Aww the 'intensive' purpose was to at least get a smirk out of you.

*grin* It did.  I was just continuing the troll.  Well, it's a mute point now, I suppose.

[Shecky]

I am so glad I am not alone in this complaint...I have a T-shirt that reads; "English doesn't so much borrow from languages as it follows them down an alley, knocks them down and goes through their pockets for loose grammar"

That has long been one of my favorite comments of all time. But then, I'm a linguigeek.

[Aludra]

In the spirit of lite-hearted discussion on the failings of literacy lately I present unto ya'll

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/how-to-sell-books

[jeno]

...I think I want to shop at that bookstore.

[snowbank]

I hope it doesn't reign anymore today, though.  I'm sick and tired of it.

I bet you think your funny.