Thursday, November 18, 2010

Misspellings that annoy me

Mostly gleaned from various comments on the Internets:

poured over/pored over - "I spent hours pouring over my textbook". Pouring what, exactly?

boarder/border - "We need to secure the boarder now!!" What did he do, and why did you rent out the room to him in the first place?

baited breath/bated breath - "I'm waiting with baited breath for a response". All I can think of is somebody sitting around with a mouth full of minnows.

viola/voila - "You just add this, and VIOLA! Nothing to it". If it's that easy to make violas, why isn't everyone doing it? And why are some of them so darn expensive?

balling/bawling - (This one is really unfortunate. I'll let you make up your own sentence).


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