For Christ and Pete's Sake it's "brake". Not "break"

Perhaps I've been asleep for the past decade, but when did the grammar and spelling in this country plummet?

Brake= anything that has a slowing/stopping effect

Break= to destroy or interrupt

The improper use is killing me. That's right, I am dying from the misuse. Are there really that many stupid people?

Please don't mention "they're" "their" "there".... I cannot handle it.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on May 20, 2010 at 2:33am

Back to the top for a great comic.

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Permalink Reply by Davo on May 20, 2010 at 6:29am

Is it Brake dancing because the dance is slowed at times

or Break dancing because the dance is broken at times

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Permalink Reply by lauren sailor on May 20, 2010 at 9:38am

this is one of my favorite xkcd comics, and i'm sure you grammar nerds will like it too.

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Permalink Reply by Gecko on August 4, 2010 at 7:27am

Good one Lauren. I actually started doing that for like a week after I read that comic.

One of the misspellings that seriously irritates me the most is "tomarrow". I mean come on, we learned how to spell TOMORROW in grade school.

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo Cervantes on August 4, 2010 at 3:24pm

From a verbal standpoint, one of my big annoyances is the Chicago way of starting your sentences with "he sez, she sez, I sez".

He sez, hey whatcha doing? So I sez, nuttin'. Then he sez, ok. So I sez, ok.

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on August 4, 2010 at 3:53pm

Korvas Black said:

Her defense was, essentially, that my insistence that word usage be in some way related to word meaning was artistically stifling to her, and how dare I.

LOL What is she - a writer of Mad Libs that are grammatically incorrect?