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Old 09-07-2010, 10:23 AM
 
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I know that it could be a separate thread for all misused and misspelled words (as opposed to those we simply don't like), but the one that makes me want to throw the book/magazine/newspaper at the writer is this:

predominate or predominately

Noooooooo...it's "predominant" !
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Old 09-07-2010, 03:50 PM
 
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I hate "hierarchy" becomes sometimes I can't even get close enough to have the spelling checker fix it.
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Old 09-07-2010, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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I hate the word "sody pop". I was in Indiana at a restraunt and the waiter asked me what kind of sody pop I wanted. The word just makes me feel sick to my stomach.
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Old 09-08-2010, 06:33 AM
 
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I hate the word "sody pop". I was in Indiana at a restraunt and the waiter asked me what kind of sody pop I wanted. The word just makes me feel sick to my stomach.
I've never heard of sody pop-funny! I hate " I don't got none." I went on a date once and the man I was with said it to a waiter I think-he never heard from me again-
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Old 09-08-2010, 09:09 AM
 
Location: West Coast USA
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Double negatives that are not spoken in jest.

However, I once wrote a "love poem," in all double negatives, to my husband in a writing class, and it really made a lot of people angry -- they thought I was terrible!
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Old 09-08-2010, 10:06 AM
 
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Irregardless!
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Old 09-08-2010, 10:17 AM
 
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Hey! That was one of the words in my double-negative love poem! By the way, my husband loved it!
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Old 09-08-2010, 11:31 AM
 
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I hate the word "Yo"
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Old 09-08-2010, 04:43 PM
 
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"young child" - are there old children now?
"free gift" - you sometimes have to pay for gifts?
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Old 09-08-2010, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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I've never heard of sody pop-funny! I hate " I don't got none." I went on a date once and the man I was with said it to a waiter I think-he never heard from me again-
Actually, you two spelled it wrong, it's sodIE-Pop, no y.

I don't got none, man, my Mom would go nuts if we ever said that.
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