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I can't.

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YRU uzn ll doze letas n d 1st plce? hl...hl....wa d diff?

snt frm ifone

While everyone is venting

In Ohio, a lot of people use "ideal" in place of "idea".

"Hey man, I have an ideal..."

Kevin Looker

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It's better than playing golf.

Without further a due. When I read that I want to eat glass.

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Or defiantly instead of definitely.

Don Williams: I told you we had a problem here......!!
Tom

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I jus seen a new won:

its'

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That's the possessive plural of it!

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

I loose it whenever I here someone use 'heal' and 'kerfing'... theirs no excuse.

Yes, I know what you mean. Sometimes people just need to heal that kerfing habit.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

That is why we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway???!

no wot i meen

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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at guitars.

My personal favorite, from the Watergate guys, trying to sound serious. "At this point in time..."

Where I come from it's definitely heel...as in Tarheel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Heel

Iphone's and hari kari ...... is there an app for that ???

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Guilty as charged.

I don't mind typos or misspellings too much, or even grammatical mistakes but at least @ least No1s typin n txt lingo.

murrmac, your really making a heal out of you're self. Were all guilty of this, tho you mite not real lies it. I mien, hay, its just human nature. I deme this a waist of space, and anybody with a brane nos Im write.

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Aaron Craig

Irregardless for regardless gets me.

Wow, so many responses, and very entertaining responses at that ...

So , reading between the lines, I gather that "heal" is NOT in fact currently an accepted synonym for "heel" .

Just wanted to make sure ...

I will play.

THEN and THAN. Two completely different words, not interchangeable without completely changing the meaning of the sentence. I see and hear this all the time. Folks are constantly using then when they should be using than.

There's instead of there are.

Allzz, pronounced like awls "allz you have to do ........"

Disinterested when they mean uninterested. Disinterested means impartial.

Personable for affable. Personable means attractive.

Peruse for skim when it means the opposite.

Mundane for ordinary or boring when pretty much everything that we do is mundane because it means earthly or of the earth.

It is endless.

L.

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I frequent a gm forum. Breaks is acceptable. Unless you are talking about the things that stop your car.

I think there is a disconnect when it comes to typing. A lot of times I'll use a completely different work that sounds the same.

Like I typed out this on face book. "having to look to their life and right." Instead of "left and right."

Or maybe my brain is just went on a brake...

More and more I see people use "on" instead of "one". Is this some kind of "in" thing for people to do?

Perhaps you meant "hear" instead of "here" as in "I can't hear you from here."

This illustrates the point quite well. The spell checker won't pick up differences when the misspelled word is another legal word. The best spell checker dictionaries are not too large. English has a lot of words and many commonly misspelled words happen to be other words.

I try to ignore most of these if the intent of the author is clear. There are a few cases where the incorrect word is also a reasonable sentence that is proper in the context.

One thing that sort of bothers me is adverbs that have the "ly" missing. "He felt bad about the situation".
While we're ranting, It's hard to find a sentence with the word utilize where the word use wouldn't have been better.

What I think this thread illustrates most clearly is that it's not a good idea to criticize others' spelling or grammatical errors because we ALL make them.

I fear that many folks will be offended by this thread, as Todd has already demonstrated.
I think we will all need some heeling time from this one.

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Only badly."