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IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

BREATHE – THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH – THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER – TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER – TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

DEFIANT – RESISTANT
DEFINITE – CERTAIN

WANTON – DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON – IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

*slams reblog*

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

SLEIGHT – DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’)
SLIGHT – VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

CAN I ADD TO THIS TOO?

IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.

And this is why my students look at me as though I’m the devil when I try to tell them that no i’m not lying this really is a thing

IT’S NOT “I COULD CARE LESS”

YOU ARE LITERALLY SAYING YOU’RE CARING TOO MUCH ALREADY

PS: ROGUE OR ROUGE. PICK UP ONE.

E.G. SHOULD BE USED WHEN GIVING ONE OR MORE EXAMPLES OF SOMETHING, BUT THERE ARE OTHER THINGS IN THE SAME CATEGORY THAT IT COULD BE (The shoes come in many colours, e.g. black, blue and white.)

I. E. SHOULD BE USED WHEN YOU’RE GIVING *ALL* OF THE POSSIBLE OPTIONS (They also come in my favourite colour, i.e. green.)

Slamming a reblog on this because yes, all of this is important. 🙂

ALL OF A SUDDEN NOT ALL OF THE SUDDEN

SNEAK PEEK NOT SNEAK PEAK

BATED BREATH NOT BAITED BREATH

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES NOT FOR ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES

ONE AND THE SAME NOT ONE IN THE SAME

AFFECT = VERB; EFFECT = NOUN

YOU LOSE YOUR WALLET. YOU DON’T LOOSE IT.

YOU HAVE MORE MONEY THAN HER, NOT THEN HER.

LIGHTNING = ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE THAT OCCURS DURING A STORM; LIGHTENING = TO BECOME LIGHTER

AND THIS ONE MAY JUST BE ME BEING PICKY, BUT PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF LESBIANS, PURGE YOUR FICTION OF THE PHRASE “SOILED PANTIES” WHEN REFERRING TO PEOPLE WITH VAGINAS BEING AROUSED. “SOILED” MEANS DIRTY. NATURAL VAGINAL LUBRICATION IS NOT DIRTY. THE SECOND I SEE “SOILED PANTIES”, MY SOUL LEAVES MY BODY, BECAUSE IN MY MIND, SOMEONE JUST SHAT THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEX SCENE.