Pique vs peak. Discrete vs discreet. Pallet vs palette vs palate. The list is endless, and I’ve been seeing it more and more frequently, even from “journalists” published in major newspapers.
The other day I saw someone put a comma after “dear” in the salutation “Dear [name],”.
Some of these could probably be consolidated into a single spelling if we’re going to be pronouncing them the same. English could do with some simplification in some places.
The vocative comma is an interesting one, I wonder if you’re seeing people omit it because so many business correspondence omits it.
For example, I absolutely hate the phrase “Good morning, everyone.” The comma between morning and everyone seems unnecessary. It’s not how anyone would say the phrase out loud. The only pause in the phrase would occur after “everyone”, not before it.
Women vs woman, breaks vs brakes. And we seem to be getting worse.
Pique vs peak. Discrete vs discreet. Pallet vs palette vs palate. The list is endless, and I’ve been seeing it more and more frequently, even from “journalists” published in major newspapers.
The other day I saw someone put a comma after “dear” in the salutation “Dear [name],”.
Some of these could probably be consolidated into a single spelling if we’re going to be pronouncing them the same. English could do with some simplification in some places.
The vocative comma is an interesting one, I wonder if you’re seeing people omit it because so many business correspondence omits it.
For example, I absolutely hate the phrase “Good morning, everyone.” The comma between morning and everyone seems unnecessary. It’s not how anyone would say the phrase out loud. The only pause in the phrase would occur after “everyone”, not before it.
At least it wasn’t “deer”
That last example gave me 2d5 of psychic damage.
Missed opportunity to say “getting worst”
I concluded the difference in how I say (English, US) woman and women makes no fucking sense.