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I've lost count of the number of times I've seen posts in this forum where someone says "bigger then" or "faster then" or whatever. It seems to be more often than the correct usage.

Think about what you're writing people! The word "then" has a meaning (related to time), and it doesn't belong in phrases like those

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There's (not They're or Their) something about the web that makes people completely forget about basic grammar, particularly homonyms and possessives. Either that or it make people think that their opinion matters, regardless of how it's(not its) written.

 

Don't get me started on that one, or "your" and "you're"

 

It gets me so wound up reading some of the posts on here sometimes. You can't complain about some typo's and spelling mistakes, but some of the errors in grammar that come up again and again really get to me....

 

Two, To and Too .......more favourites of mine

 

Yeah, and people who put an extra "u" in words as in "colour" and "favourites"...


j/k

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by naishou
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I've lost count of the number of times I've seen posts in this forum where someone says "bigger then" or "faster then" or whatever.

 

Isn't that the British way to spell things?
Seriously though, you don't want to correct peop le because they'll flame you, but I wouldn't mind being corrected so I can avoid making the same mistake in the future. I know I don't put the commas and semi-colons in the right place too
I'm afraid that seeing the mistakes so many times will make me start to think that's the correct way to spell the word

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by smccurry
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Isn't that the British way to spell things?

 

break and brake