100 Most Often Mispronounced Words on YourDictionary.com
October 19, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Reference
Don’t you hate it when you look or sound stupid, ignorant or uneducated? Maybe you don’t even realize you’re doing it.
One of the things that I notice frequently among those immediately around me is when people mispronounced or misuse words or grammar.
The YourDictionary.com site has an article titled "100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English". I’m sure out of 100 there are probably a couple I’ve messed up at least once. How will you do?
I found this site thanks to Nikki Katz Stumbling it earlier and me seeing it. Great find!
Make sure you’re not looking stupid, …read more
Wordsplosion – Grammar Disasters Caught on Film
September 15, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Communication, Humor, Images & Photos
Okay, it’s not technically caught on “Film” but “…Caught in Pixels” didn’t quite sound right even though it’s probably more accurate.
Regardless, the point of the Wordsplosion site is to highlight a variety of grammar, well, let’s just say what they say, it can’t be said much better or succinctly.
Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of
grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc.
We call this family of textual catastrophes “wordsplosions.”
If you’ve caught some of these types of accidents yourself, you can e-mail them and share with the world too. Just send the image to images@wordsplosion.com
I’m not sure …read more






