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(66,096 posts)Shamed by editor for helping of newspaper right writing prints thanks yes.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)DFW
(54,055 posts)Never use an apostrophe when you should (e.g. write "your" when you should write "you're" .
ALWAYS use an apostrophe to form a plural (e.g. "I like fast car's" where you shouldn't.
And you are on your way to becoming a card-carrying Republican!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)it's always pronounced
"Noo-cue-ler"
In an interview with Brian Williams, Bush Lite, while holding the office of POTUS, told Brian Williams what he was reading one summer--an "ecolectic" assortment of books. And it wasn't an inadvertent slip--he repeated it: ecolectic!
I'm pretty sure that any literate Republican watching the broadcast went apoplectic, but I guess that doesn't count, what with "apoplectic" being a real word and all...............
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Was the title of an infamous book in Portuguese on how to learn English, I recall. It's apparently a classic.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I had a pretty crappy job whose only redeeming feature was having to "translate" machinery brochures into some semblance of English and input them into the computer.
The fractured English as written by Chinese, Japanese, and Italian brochure writers was a total hoot.