Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?

["Damien Braniff" <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com>]

Of course it can be done quite intentionally. A comedy show here in the
UK about a small shop owner deliberately spelled some of his 'offers' in
the window. When his assistant pointed it out his reply was something
along the lines - "People come in to tell me about it and before they
know it they've bought something"  A form of marketing writing I suppose
:-)

"Nuckols, Kenneth M" wrote:

> Earlier today I saw a post that contained what might have been a 
> clever unexpected placement of a word, or what might have been the 
> result of some automatic spell checker's "fix" of a typo. But outside 
> our list it's such a basic and common error that it makes me want to 
> puke every time I see it: when someone writes the word "loose" when he

> or she is

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