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Monday, March 26, 2012

Mispronunciation

There is a set of words that are commonly mispronounced, and this posting does a good job of outlining a lot of them:
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/50-incorrect-pronunciations-that-you-should-avoid/

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Office Max Ad--Missing Apostrophe

Office Max Ad (February 5-12, 2012)
I was shopping for a printer, so I pulled out the Office Max Ad. I couldn't believe what I saw (more like I was very disappointed with what I didn't see in the headline). The worst part of it was that they had a printer I liked on sale, so I had to buy it there to save money.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Apostrophe Issues....Again

I think misuse of the apostrophe is might be the mistake made most often. I was a little surprised to see this one.This shirt is available from Old Navy, not the Mizzou bookstore, but still...they offer the same typo on shirts from many different schools.