for the love of God...

[mandingo]

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[texashorn]

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[accuratehorn]

Roll of film. Role in a movie.
God grants grammar dispensations for HornFans vernacular, idoits.

 

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[SubliminalHorn]

This thread is so ironical

 

[milk_monitor]

"Dominant" is an adjective.
"Dominate" is a verb.

 

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[ctrl+alt+del]

A whole nother.

 

[Upgrayedd]

A friend of mine saw a place in Marfa with a sign out front that says "Alway's Open."

 

[capnamerca]

I"m guilty of definately ... not sure why, it's just what my fingers like to type. Thank GOD for spellchecker. Ridiculous (re) trips me up sometimes, too. On the flip side, I'm really good about lose/loose, and there/their/they're, so perhaps it all evens out.

 

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[Fetoid]

it is a mute point by now

 

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[The Eyes of Texas]

I almost forgot....

I actually heard someone critique an oral presentation by saying " I liked everything except your pronounciation was off..."

 

[MaduroUTMB]

The possessive apostrophe thing still bugs me when I am using a complicated or obscure acronyms that might very well have a lower case "s" on their ends. If you took a hypothetical car called the "P17s", you would have no way of knowing whether the noun referred to several "P17s" or to one "P17s".

I blame Germany for this.

 

[Steel Shank]

Lubbock is up on the Caprock, Abilene is not.

Brothers-in-law vs brother-in-law's vs brother's-in-laws

 

[bobtheking]

It's BUCK Naked. Not Butt.

 

[HatDaddy]

It is nuclear..not nookyalur. So angry when people say that.

 

[Homesickhorn]

"I use-to-could"

"Where you at"?

"Eff off"

Adding "ish" to anything time-oriented.

All of these make me want to rip my hair out, but, to each their own I guess. So, what ev.

 

[RoundhouseKick]

"The Jones" when speaking of a family.

Plural of a last name ending in "s" is:
The Joneses.

 

[accuratehorn]

Couldn't we all let it be water under the damn?

 

[rickysrun]

the misuse of literally.

 

[Statalyzer]

Sarcasm used to mean any sort of half-joking insult. While the two are often connected, they are not the same thing yet I hear people say "Let's tone down the sarcasm" or "I wish he wasn't so sarcastic" when they really mean "Let's stop making so many jokes at each other's expense" or "I wish he wouldn't put people down so much."

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[California Horn]

Another one I hate is the creation of fake verbs like "scrapbooking." You ladies can make a scrapbook if you would like (so long as I don't have to have anything to do with it), but you aren't "scrapbooking."

 

[SubliminalHorn]

My roommate says "country pumpkin" instead of "bumpkin". It annoys the hell out of me, but I don't think he will ever change.

 

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[skipintro]

For possessive proper nouns that end in S I tend to add the additional S. It is not incorrect. However, I have also used Ya'll're.


"the car's front seat
Charles's car
Bartkowski's book
a hard day's work
Some writers will say that the -s after Charles' is not necessary and that adding only the apostrophe (Charles' car) will suffice to show possession. Consistency is the key here: if you choose not to add the -s after a noun that already ends in s, do so consistently throughout your text. William Strunk's Elements of Style recommends adding the 's. (In fact, oddly enough, it's Rule Number One in Strunk's "Elementary Rules of Usage.") You will find that some nouns, especially proper nouns, especially when there are other -s and -z sounds involved, turn into clumsy beasts when you add another s: "That's old Mrs. Chambers's estate." In that case, you're better off with "Mrs. Chambers' estate."The Link