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ryandrake • yesterday at 9:40 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Glad to see someone fighting the good fight, no matter how lost the battle is online. I'd add:

    your/you’re
    who’s/whose
    were/we’re/where
    to/too/two
    are/our
    then/than
    lose/loose
    wary/weary
    affect/effect
    aloud/allowed
    definitely/defiantly
    complement/compliment
    flout/flaunt
When people make these kinds of vocabulary mistakes, I like to at least charitably assume that English is their second language, but I've seen my kid's teachers make these mistakes, too...

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baal80spam • yesterday at 10:26 PM

Don't forget the worst offender: its/it's

raw_anon_1111 • today at 1:11 AM

One that really gets me that most professional get wrong is jive/jibe.

The last time someone used “jive” when not in relation to music was George Jefferson and other Black folks up to the very early 80s (I am Black before the pearl clutching starts)

mikepurvis • yesterday at 9:42 PM

No "effects" discussion is complete without https://xkcd.com/326/

(At least "defiantly" is an actual word, unlike "definately" which doesn't even pass spell check)

SoftTalker • yesterday at 10:07 PM

Standard excuse: autocorrect must have changed it.

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