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Originally Posted by ApK
I'll excuse "lose/loose" as a very easy typo either way (double hitting the o or not hitting it hard enough) because I do it all the time, and I promise it's not because I chose (...or even choose...) the wrong word.
I'll get behind the rest of your rant, if you'll get behind my peeve of mistaken idioms, like "for all intensive purposes," or "you've got another thing coming."
Oh, and I also hate when people use "factoid" to mean "fact." I may have posted about that one in the past.
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Oh I will absolutely get behind your peeve!
And then there's "should of" instead of "should've"
Or people who consistently misspell the brand name of a product in a discussion of said product even when the correct name is right there at the top of the forum.
I have wondered if sale/sell might be an English -as-a-second-language error (in which case I would be forgiving).
Mobileread is actually where I've seen that one - for example if someone has an e-reader they're no longer using they may say they're going to "sale" it