via Taylor
Presenting a list of grammatically errors that are technically not errors. I do make many of these non-errors, but I frequently remember my 6th grade English teacher Ms. Hall (emphasis hers) screeching about my sentence structure and countless hours at the blackboard uselessly diagramming sentences.
I admit that the phrase “near miss” annoys me to no end but “off of” is frequently used in the part of the US. I’d also like to print out the reference to “reference” and send it to every professor who has ever attempted to teach me a thing or two. I always did “cite” and never did I “reference” even though I always wanted to.
I disagree that “persuade” and “convince” mean the same thing, but I’ll leave that to the experts.
Here is a list of errors that people do generally make and it is certainly much longer than the non-errors.
Great list of items!!
I’m the last one to point fingers since I really do have horrid mistakes all the time – I simply don’t care as much as I should. That being said – at least I don’t call those items that hold the clothes in my dresser a draw, nor do I call that cute cafe table wrot or rot iron in composition. Those things actually KILL me. We all have our pet peeves. I’m sure I kill someone else. It’s all good.