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Originally Posted by joycedb
Very interesting thread. You've touched on all the things I find annoying as a reader. Simply passing an English course doesn't qualify you as a writer, which many people seem to think these days.
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It would, however, help many authors to study English!
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Another pet peeve of mine is mixing up led and lead.
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That's interesting. We had a discussion on word usage a while ago, and one of our American friends claimed that "led" was NOT a valid past participle of "lead" in American English (it is in British English). Are you saying that "led" IS used in American English, after all?
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And has anyone mentioned the misuse of hang, hanged, and hung?
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You mean that "hung" is incorrect when referring to the method of execution? That's technically true, but I don't think it crops up often enough to be a major problem.