Monday, August 01, 2005

Fun With Words

English is tough. There are a lot of words that are spelled similarly, and people have trouble keeping track of them all. Here a re a few of my favorite ways that people find to muck up our language:

To, two, and too.
Correct usage- I too will send two letters to you.

Their, there, and they’re.
Correct usage- They’re having too much fun over there in their underwear.

These ones are symbols, not words, but people mess them up all the time.
, and
means inches, and means feet, so a 6 tall person would be incredibly short.