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Originally Posted by cklls
Yes!!! That one drives me nuts! And don't get me going on the whole homonym thing. The one that irritates me most is the misuse of there, their, and they're. Oh, and loose and lose are used incorrectly more often than not. And then there's then and than.
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I get that way when prople confuse "affect" with "effect". And I have read any number of books lately whose authors didn't know the difference between "flaunt" and "flout". Geez, they don't even have the excuse of those being
pronounced the same.
PS. This is slightly OT, but it
is a recurrent authorial booboo - is anyone else fed up with the way half the characters in Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books are "several axe handles" across the shoulders? Has she ever
seen an axe? Sorry, I was reading one of them and just needed to get that off my chest.