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Another one: the people who think "comprise" means the same thing as "compose", "constitute", or lately "consist". Writing "is comprised of" is an abomination unto Nuggan. Yeah, right up there with the color blue.
The reason the its/it's people get it wrong is they're thinking about it wrong. They think "its" is an exception -- a possessive without an apostrophe -- and they have to remember it as an exception. That's how it was taught to me: "its" can't have an apostrophe because "it's" needs it. That's not true, however; "its" isn't an exception at all. It's like "his" or "hers" or "ours": a plural possessive pronoun. Of course, now that I've said that, I expect to see "hi's" soon.
An even worse abomination I've seen a couple of times recently -- in professional work, on the websites of media entities I've actually heard of -- is "wen't" as the past tense of "go". W. T. F.?
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