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It appears that many posters on the internet forums have no concept of the difference between "woman" and "women".
1 woman.
2 women.
What is so difficult?
Regarding singular/plural confusion, on second thought, it isn't really a new trend.!
Earlier today, I recalled one of my first conversations with my "cooperating teacher" when I began school visitations--in 1968--for my Junior Practicum.
"Mario", who was in his mid-late 30s, told me that he wanted to enroll in a Master's Degree program in order to earn an M.A. in Education, but he said that he was "kind of scared about writing a theses". I was 19 years of age at the time, and I can recall thinking...If this guy still doesn't know the difference between "thesis" and "theses", he should be scared!
From a thread regarding unemployment compensation:
I went online today and reopend my case, because my pentatly ended the 16th...My pentatky is over and I'm not working...Can anyone tell me what this could be please?!
For that matter, we also have the now too-common confusion between "wander" and "wonder".
How could people possibly confuse those two words?
I am in agreement with MightyQueen that most of this confusion results from people failing to read worthwhile literature, or--perhaps--failing to read anything at all.
Has anyone else been ubber surprised by their dna results????
Ubber?
One of the phenomena that fascinates me is the inability of people to accurately replicate what they have seen in print multiple times, and/or what they have heard very frequently.
Many years ago, when the word "cloning" entered the vocabulary and began to be featured in both print media and broadcast news, I knew somebody who consistently pronounced it as "clonning". And--sure enough--when I finally got a chance to see something that he had written that included that word, he spelled it with a double "n"!
Around the same period of time, when "charisma" became a very popular buzz word, I knew somebody who pronounced it as "chair-esma". I have no idea about how he might have spelled it, but--then again--I don't think that I want to know that information!
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