An interesting article was published this week in Felix: a survey was conducted at Imperial and found that everyone sucks at spelling and grammar. Especially the British students. Surprise, surprise.
I noticed quite a few of my pet hates in the common mistakes: effect/affect, its/it’s, separate…
Dr Lamb believes the reason is that the youth of today […]
“I could care less about the Patriot Act”.
Really? How much less could you care then? No, damn it. You meant that you couldn’t care less.