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Most misused word on boards?

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    #32
    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Their/there/they're appear to be randomly interchangeable


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    #33
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Thread Fail

    Epic

    +1

    ^this

    (all misused here)


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    #34
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Begrudgery.


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    #35
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Random.


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    #36
    DoneDL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    In my humble opionion, yeah right :p


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    #37
    Funkfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    bankers / shower of cnuts
    developers / shower of cnuts
    FF / shower of cnuts


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    #38
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cunt classic.

    Teh

    'Overlord' jokes

    Cool story bro/tl;dr


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    #39
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Intelligent

    thank you for noticing....


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    #40
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    MA
    liah wrote: »
    "loose" instead of "lose" is a disappointingly common one.

    "weary" instead of "wary," or vice versa.

    Their/there/they're, you're/your, two/too/to.

    "taught" instead of "thought," or vice versa. Just because some of you don't pronounce "th" doesn't mean you can randomly add or subtract h's where you feel like it! This is a distinctly Irish thing, too.

    There's more, but I can't think of them right now.


    pendant...:P ughhhhh will you teach me English and in return I'll fly you to the moon in my recently hand craft rocket ship :)?


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    #41
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Is this thread a grammer nazi catcher


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    #42
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Saila wrote: »
    Is this thread a grammar nazi catcher

    Yes, and there are some Spelling Police also ;)


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    #43
    Ouchette
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Ouchette


    Infer, when people mean imply. There is a difference :mad:

    Got to be approaching 0% correct usage here but I'm not bored enough to check.


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    #44
    Bertie Bassett
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Bertie Bassett


    Center. It's like, an American word dropped into the middle of an English sentence?


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    #45
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Oh yeah, board instead of bored. Have noticed that a few times.


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    #46
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    Dictionary.

    ^^
    Take your pick.


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    #47
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    'troll' and 'infract' can't be more than 5% each I'd say.


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    #48
    ilovelamp2000
    Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ilovelamp2000


    racist


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    #49
    deman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    Surprised nobody's mentioned "aswell" yet.


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    #50
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    +1 on inferred.
    people use it to sound more intelligent that saying implied but it makes them sound stupid.

    mute point
    wtf does that even mean?


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    #51
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    "just desserts" :rolleyes:


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    #52
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I second "begrudger" and "troll". Also "liberal"/"do-gooder" and of course "politically correct". And "dictatorship" in relation to Ireland.
    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Not so much a word but when some is constantly sarcastic, bugs the fcuk out of me.

    Usually they will say that they were being ironic.

    Yeah, course you were.

    There's a little sarcasm for ya :D
    :confused:
    What's that got to do with this thread?


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    #53
    Pyr0
    Registered Users Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    Ignorant.


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    #54
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Truley wrote: »
    heroine addicts :eek:

    Truley/truly :D


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    #55
    Orange69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    Racist!

    Usually by idiotic PC brigade crusaders.


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    #56
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Cnut - FFS people it's ****!


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    #57
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Bertie Bassett wrote: »
    Center. It's like, an American word dropped into the middle of an English sentence?
    Is it?

    There's another thing.
    People putting a question mark at the end of statements?

    See what I did there!

    The above will be lost on most people.


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    #58
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Terry wrote: »
    Is it?

    There's another thing.
    People putting a question mark at the end of statements?

    See what I did there!

    The above will be lost on most people.


    When i'm not sure if what i'm saying is right(which,let's face it, is very rare:pac:), i put a question mark at the end of the sentence...

    ?


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    #59
    loobylou
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Motoring forums, people slow down their cars using "breaks".
    Also, parking next to the "curb".


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    #60
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    add as an abbreviation of advert, where's the second d in advert? where? :mad:


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    #61
    reallyrose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    Ickle Magoo wrote: »
    tread instead of thread is another common one...

    :eek: But the correct word is towards the top of the screen!

    My vote goes for "scumbag"


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