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Originally Posted by usuallee
Oh man, do not even get me started! My pet peeve is when people misuse your/you're and they're/their/there, and when people inexplicably think they need to use a comma every single time a word ends in s. As in "You're dog's bark at passing car's every time there outside". Really people???
Don't know if residents in the UK and elsewhere are as bad, but in good ole 'Merica it's rampant. (Hey that's another one, its vs. it's!) I realize this is totally off-topic. Project Gutenberg! This very site! archive.org! There you go back on topic.
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You mean an apostrophe, don't you? You've also mentioned a few of the most commonly confused words in English. My pet peeve is when people misuse words that aren't commonly confused-like 'serviced' rather than 'served'. Having been raised on a farm I *know* what 'serviced' means & while there are a few organizations that do 'service' their customers IMO I doubt if any of them actually want to boast about it.
I like
manybooks.net for Project Gutenberg books. Personal preference as the books are the same but I think it's better organized. (Note that the link does *not* start with www-but I just checked & they do have an alias (
www.manybooks.net) that redirects to the correct site.)