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Originally Posted by graycyn
If you are going to use a compound word, USE the compound word or DON'T. What I hate is when I get something like bunk house and bunkhouse in the same book. Or cowbarn, cow barn, and cow-barn! Or, heaven help me, goodby, goodbye, and good-bye! Stuff like this just makes me internally scream "MAKE UP YOUR MIND!"  |
YES! Inconsistent word usage drives me up the wall and makes me think about something lingering and humorous for the author. Possibly involving molten lead or boiling oil.
Authors who misuse homophones are also up there in my pet peeves. Grabbing the horse's rains? She tried to sees the opportunity? The weather vain was pointing to the west? These were in one recent book I cleaned up for my wife.