The letter E randomly appearing in words. ARGUEING. Using DYEING when talking about death. Or this: LIEING.
Darth- Read Safire's old book, 'Strictly Speaking,' if you haven't already. It captures the whole range of 'hypercorrect' english (which isn't english at all), along with a host of other grammatical sins that even the best writers, newspapers and other sources commit, routinely. The one that always got me was "I was critiqued." That may have lapsed into tolerable usage by now, but I always thought it was a noun. If one were the subject of a 'critique,' i always thought that meant they were being 'criticized,' even if there were no negative views expressed. F uck me.
Also, if you are fascinated with etymology, read ''The Professor and the Madman." Shall I tell you what it's about? Or what about the guy that wrote a defamatory paragraph or two, in contempt of a court order, and then defended on the basis that it was a 'typo'?
Sinse youse axe da question, I heard a new one recently - a coworker described pulling an activity UP in the schedule as 'preponing it', which is the opposite of postpone I guess. Everybody knew what he meant too. Neat.
"Up in adam" instead of up and at them. I'd much rather be up in Eve, but I that's a personal choice. --Dan
Supposibly <- another one of those common ones, sadly. but, this is irregardless of the point... http://www.irregardless.net/
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