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To: Constitution Day
And what about "toe the line"?

Is it just me, or are there more and more spelling and grammar errors in published material lately? If I see one more real estate listing that has "seperate" in it, for example....

43 posted on 04/13/2007 10:26:31 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: GraceCoolidge; Constitution Day; Tax-chick

One of my pet peeves is “soft-pedaled,” as if it had something to do with a bicycle. A number of spell-checkers even miss that one.


50 posted on 04/13/2007 10:45:02 AM PDT by NCSteve (What good is it if you're wearing your superman underwear and can't show it to anyone?)
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To: GraceCoolidge

I notice them all the time.

When I was in high school, I used to help my mom proofread papers (she was a teacher then).
To this day, grammatical and spelling errors just seem to leap off the page at me.


54 posted on 04/13/2007 10:56:02 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: GraceCoolidge
All I want, please, Lord, is for people to cease and desist putting an apostrophe in the word "its" when they are referring to the possessive of "it". My 4th Grade teacher pounded that one into me, I had it down pat at age 8; why, oh why, can't people get it right?
116 posted on 04/13/2007 7:14:11 PM PDT by 6323cd ("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
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