Early morning pedantry

Ahem. To all the otherwise-talented writers in the blogosphere:
People are unfazed by setbacks, not unphased (unless they’re characters on Star Trek).
Likewise, the operator of a restaurant is a restaurateur, not a restauranteur.
If you’re not winning and it’s not a tie, you’re losing, not loosing.
I know I’m probably swimming against the tide here, but still.

2 Comments

  1. You are *SO* swimming against the tide.
    I have students who use “tomarrow,” “manor” (for manner), and “weather” (for whether).
    I’m sure there are more …

  2. Ok, you have peaked my curiosity? Wherefore did you find these errors? It begs the question of how I can find some for myself
    Because I hate to see someone suffering from peoples little mis-hearings.
    (for some reason after the first three my mind went blank on that sort of thing, though I have a laundry list of them which I see too damned often)

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