Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves

[Queen Victoria]

I could write a book.  First four:

1)  It's complexioned, not complected.  Fair complexioned, not fair complected.

2)  Between = choice of two, Among = choice of more than two.
Between Tom and Harry, Harry is the nerd.
Among Tom, Dick, and Harry, Harry is the Nerd.

3)  Brunette means black haired, brownette means brown haired.

4)  A male is blond, a female is blonde.

The Queen hath spoken and is allsome.

[renaeden]

I never knew that about blond/e, I just always thought it was spelt with an e on the end.

My absolute pet peeve is the plural word written with an apostrophe when there is no need for it. Such as banana's instead of bananas. Or DVD's instead of DVDs. There are a few examples around town that I should take photos of and put up here.

['andersom']

I didn't know the word brownette, nor did I know the meaning of brunette.

[midlifeaspie]

Your vs you're.

Pretty much everything Ricky writes 

[Icequeen]

Noun
 
brunette
1.brunette (a girl or woman with brown or black hair)

I've always used brunette to describe someone with brown hair (I always went by the descriptions on the dye boxes  ) , the true definition itself if you read it is misleading, because it says brown OR black. Usually if someone had black hair, I referred to them as "raven-haired".

[TheoK]

In old English house is always a verb. The noun is hous.

The original 2 person singularis of be is not thou art but thou beest.

 

[Frolic_Fun]

"rediculous"

It's RIDICULOUS, cuntstick.

[renaeden]

Spot the mistake:

[TheoK]

There is at least a period missing.

[odeon]

A comma, actually.

[TheoK]

Oh, I meant a comma 

[Frolic_Fun]

I'd probably more likely use a semicolon.

[Parts]

Grammar, spelling yuck   I was never good at either and am very tolerant of mistakes

[TheoK]

Grammar, spelling yuck   I was never good at either and am very tolerant of mistakes

It's fascinating. Originally they didn't use punctuation or anything. Like this: itsfascinatingoriginallytheydidntusepunctuationoranythinglikethis

Then the Romans started to have "half-high" periods. Later, in the Middle Age, they invented more and more symbols and writing rules. The most advanced punctuation today is probably in German.

[odeon]

There are written languages today that do not use spaces.