Historical photos are so fascinating (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Why does everyone write peaks when they mean peeks and peeks when they mean peaks. I see this far too consistently to believe the cause of it is anything less than a grand conspiracy.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

OH! I was wondering wtf they were saying. Dude I didn't get it.

The other one that bothers me is "try and" instead of "try to." for some reason it really gets to me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Heaven help you if you ever run into a situation where “piqued” is contextually appropriate.

Lose and loose as well…and cue/que/queue, and dozens of others

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That’s pretty similar to: “I’ll go and do something“ instead of “I’ll go do something.“ I wonder if there are other examples.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I love the Strunk and White style guide that says, "try and 'try to'". Very tongue-in-grammatical-cheek.

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