The "it's/its" debacle routinely finds its way into my work. The worst part of it all is that I know it, and catch it all the time. When I see myself typing it the wrong way, everything goes into slow-motion, like I'm doing some really cool Matrix stunt... except I'm not.

Oh, and add to my list of grievances what IMs, and worse - text messaging - has done for grammar. Suddenly, it's acceptable to write incorrectly outside of those media. I've done it, too... fore go capitalization from time to time, but seriously... in schoolwork.

That's forgo - or possibly forego. It's always one word.


Only in this thread, I promise.

I force myself to think "it is" - which is the only correct usage of "it's". It is silly, but it works.

Even worse - business emails. I am shocked what I see come in on a regular basis.

It appears you also forego the correct usage of forgo (either spelling is correct according to one source, but may not be so with all sources).

I pronounce "street" as "shtreet". It's a Hawai'i pidgin english thing.
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"Try and" drives me crazy. "I'm going to try and do my homework tonight." Yeah? You're both going to try it and do it? How nice for you.

I'm so glad we can all conversate about this.

Yeah, "try and" means the opposite. I'll try and make it = I'm not coming.

Much like "it was interesting" means "I hated it."

"I could care less" bugs me. I think it's "I couldn't care less".

"Foilage" instead of "folliage"...

"Birfday" instead of "birthday"...