How many know the definition of these two words? Raise your hand.

Hand is up. I also know the difference between your and you're.

How about "its" and "it's?" Or "there" and "their?"

There, their or they’re

Those, too.

But we're wasting our time. The ones who misuse all those words think it doesn't matter, and that we're being grammar nazis because we believe that how you use language reflects upon your intelligence.

Don't be to hard on them.

As the cat crossed in front of my truck I let off the brakes in hope that I could break its back.

I & eye

I see what you did there.

So...is it break dancing or brake dancing?

You got it! And another is "stalk and stock."

Folks really ought to realize that this is a form of written communication... Words matter.

Guy

We need another thing to bitch about on the Campfire? Why not just call them names and move on?

My rifle had a break....

Dickweed.

And, aye.

He's right, Rocky...giv'em a brake!

I just learnded hail vs hale.

Watch it, he's a violent dude.......He'll brake your face and broke your ass.

Well, my ass is broke, and I don't mean that like brokeback!

See, that works just fine. No need to get all worked up.

Loose and lose are two very prevalent Campfire confusions.

It looks like to me your stock broke. But I dont know for sure.

We gonna get ‘Ballz a life alert this Christmas.

Yep. I see that one a lot.

Yeah, that was pretty slick.

DF

You are to be commended for knowing that "a" and "lot" are two separate words (as are "all" and "right").

Fireballz has a screw loose.

Most would consider him a loser.

🤠

Its up. I know are and our.

It's not polite to type with a black cock in your mouth.

Alot flows off the tongue better than a lot.

Sons a bitches.

2, two, too, and to. Sell, sale, and sail. Also, saw and seen as in I saw that or I have seen this.

All those years of watching Wheel of Fortune is paying off.

muzzle break,,, if you shoot the rifle with mud in it....

So spit it out or come back when you’re not busy.

You're the official black apologist on the fire, just making a suggestion. You keep doing what you're doing, by all means.

Reupold and Leupold...dang spell check.

One is certainly more desirable than the other.

And you love immigrants from 3rd world schit holes.

What’s the problem?

Considering the state of black "culture" today, there's nothing I respect less than a black apologist.

Well, we was cruzzen down Root 66 when too buoys hit there breaks and kame in two hour lane and skeerd the bejesus out'a us. Its gud they're wasnt a crick buy tha rode
ore wee wud bee dead.

Aye, aye !!

All hail the hale even in the hail....

Look in the mirror.

Might change your mind.

Why don't you look in the mirror and see if your boyfriend wiped his ass.

I’m not sure what that means.

LMFAO

A window into Ball’z early development perhaps?

How about piqued, peaked or peeked?

Affect effect.

dictionary, thesaurus

How about "mine" (a hole in the ground) and "mine" (someone's possession)?

It means OJ's dick is buried so deep down your throat you can look in the mirror and see if he wiped his ass.

How am I going to see the mirror if OJ is standing in front of me?

It just doesn't make sense.

Maybe try it in Spanish. Sometimes things don't translate from one language to the other.

I applaud the effort though. I know you're doing your best.

I once had to spend 10 min. explaining the difference to a colleague with a PhD in English.

You'd feel it if I was putting an effort into it. You bore me.

Fireballz always mad.

He just never know why.

advice and advise

Not to beat a dead horse, but why would OJ not being wiping his ass in the first place?

It just doesn't make sense.

Farther vs. further

OJ's a local boy. His photo was in the paper yesterday; he looks like he has very good hygiene.

That's what I'm sayin'. There's no history of ass wipe problems there.

Worst comeback ever.

Fireballz need to stick to digging holes.

Brick mould or brick mold?

Jam or jamb thickness?

I see them at work all the time.........

Strawberry Jam or toe jam 😜

Then and than, amazing how many dumbshitz bugger those two up.

In pronunciation, have you ever noticed how many "educated" people say "ek-cetera" instead of "et-cetera," and "nook-u-ler" instead of nu-clear?" It's a wonderment.

L.W.

I'm constantly amazed by people who can't correctly pronounce such a simple word as Zion.

Yeah, do they call the king of the jungle a Lie-on?

Desk phone rang one day. The idiot on the other end of the line asked a bunch of stupid questions to which I gave purposefully stupid answers because that's how I amuse myself until the hangover dies off.

Anyway, when she became frustrated she said "You know what, you write good. Just send me a blurp about that and I'll cut and paste it into the spreadsheet."

"Write you a what?"

"A blurp."

"What the fugk is blurp?"

"Uuuugh. It's a short paragraph describing what we're talking about."

"BlurBBBBB! It's not blurPPPP!"

"I'm pretty sure it's blurp."

"Open a word doc right now and type the word blurp into it. If there's not a redline underneath I'll bring you a paycheck's worth of my salary."

"Click."

LMAO. Months later we were in a meeting and she was still using the word "blurp."

You left out 'mine' v. to dig.....

Guilty 😬. I can write pretty well if I choose to. But I can’t speak worth a damn. It’s a TX “thang”. 🤠

I knows it be spelled creek but always heard them says it crick back where I done got raised.

Mine your own business.

Hank Jr sings it that way when he redid his Daddy’s old song.
So it must be correct. 🤠

I'm confused. You've worked?

Calvary and cavalry.

I invented a new word - 'Plagiarism'.

Saw a Calvary Carbine at the LGS few months back............

Told him I didn't think it was quite that old! Or is it quit or quiet!?!?!

Beet a dead horse or beat a dead horse?

I know most of these, as do most members.
But my prose here is the type of communication I use with friends or family (not Mom).
It's informal, so, I'm a bit lazy about proof reading, and sometimes use one of these wrong.
Not to mention my spell check.
Every single time I type Glock, it gives Glick.
The darn thing will change a properly spelled word into something I don't think is a word.

All to say, I consider this a conservation with friends.
I don't want to screw with you all by using bad grammar,
but as friends, I would expect some slack. Or, ball busting if it's funny.

If you take it serious,
sorry,
But GFY!

LOL.

Good grammer is taken for granite.

they might crack a bone but they don't slow down much.

It's "break"....I tried it once and broke something....

When the mechanic says, "break (brake) " it makes a guy wonder (wunder?).

Well, of course it does.

Conservation, or consummation?

I have no doubt you’ve been bored many times.

clip or magazine ?

moron vs mormon

My auto-correct always inserts moron first so I just go with that.

So that's moron by choice, not Mormon by choice!

A lot/allot of good answers here/hear, and most of you are right, wright, write, or rite - take your/you're/yore pick.

I and me are always butchered. I seldom see them used correctly in prepositional phrases.

Al came to the game with my wife and I. W R O N G!!!

Al came to the game with my wife and ME... Correct...

If you neglect to use the brake then there is a middling to fair chance you will break the car.

ya'll need to grasp a holt of this word thing

Hence why ... 🤦🏻‍♂️

When I was billing trucks at the packing plant, one of the guys (really nice guy) in traffic would always ask me to hand him that "vanilla" folder. When someone left a poisonous cloud behind in the can, he would always ask the world in general why people didn't spray with that "itemizer" when they were done.

I am sew board with this thread.

Local archery shop where my step grand daughter shoots in a league has a sign by the coffee maker that reads;..... " COFFEE....... It's break fluid".

Far and fire?

Geno

Alright, take it easy!

I used to have long but polite discussions with the late Ken Howell. Ken was a world-class editor and grammarian, but he always insisted that my use of "alright" was wrong, because it is a non-word, in his opinion.

I contended - and still do - that alright is as valid a word as already. There are times when all ready is correct, but others when already is proper. And, so I argued, the same is true of all right and alright. The pairs have different meanings and connotations and deserve to be recognized as distinct and correct words.

BTW, I learned another word today: petrichor. It means the earthy smell that occurs when rain falls on dry ground - a very apt word this time of year.

I concur.

Irregardless.

Aisle cue won up four yew. Arr guise aloud two chute ate aeros at a thyme in too the heir with there beau ore wood eye get sighted fore braking sum rool? Hew nose?

Advise and advice are 2 that I see misused often.

I see the word abortion used quite often when they mean abomination.

walla for voila

prolly for probably

boocoo for beaucoup

fewer, less

Another mistake that no shooter should ever make is calling a 3-9X40 scope a 3X9X40 scope. There is a huge difference between the meaning when a "-" is used instead of an "X" between the numbers.

And when shortening numbers such as 2019 to '19 some people put the apostrophe in the wrong place and write it as 19'.

Gimmie anotha Clip for this here Remington

Muzzle break:

Bride walked down the isle? Clip, magazine, bullet, shell, cartridge. Sometimes just amusing or irritating but at others it makes communication hard. Had a workmate looking for a nut, I couldn't figure what he was missing until he happened on a capscrew I never figured out when capscrew grew up and became bolts
Spell correct really can change some every day word into something bazaar

Actually, not in my circles. However, I run with many other dentists, MDs, lawyers (we make fun of them too) engineers and various CEOs. Kind of a select group who all had advanced English composition and beaucoup physics for the most part.

Then there always is the grad students from Hong Kong or Jordan that taught us that we never could understand......

Guys- that's why after 6 quarters of physics I can't make a "bomb" from scratch!

I do know it only takes about 32 lbs of enriched U235 to phouc somebody up.. I understand the gun and slug that made "Little Boy" zap Hiroshima.

I get Teller's equation that turned into the H-Bomb. (Which means I don't understand our resident trolls, but that's another thing entirely.)

In 1943, I'd be "classified. Now I'm only a dentist.

Times change.

Pisses me off when I type the word correctly but the autocorrect misspells it or types in the wrong word.

The one that always gave me trouble in school was "bear or bare". not the obvious, rather..bare with me, or can't bear it anymore, can't bare to look?

I always ask black guys I know, when did you all start, and why did you start with axsed for ask?

They say it's been that way their whole life, but I didn't start hearing it until about 25 years ago.

The newest slang's,



"hella" for hell of a lot of
"dope" now means real nice

Brake... break... they both come from the same word, breken .

Hey Rocky: Firefox is telling me that Nazis should be capitalized XD

But off the pedantic pedestal.

In some ways I have to agree with those that are of the opinion that misusing break for brake, you're for your, they're for there etc... is not a true reflection of an individual's intelligence. I certainly know that when I'm typing away at a fast clip, I'll use it's instead of its (and other mistakes). It's in the proofreading that these mistakes are caught. In fact, just a few days ago, I used siting instead of sighting. The error was caught after posting, and was later edited.

Yet there is certainly merit to the thought that misusing sight instead of cite or site is indeed a measure of ones intelligence. It is unlikely that an American would be able to graduate from high school without having been taught correct usage. I know that my sons (just out of 6th and 4th grades) are continually being exposed to homonyms. Perhaps the inability to memorize usage is a reflection of intelligence? Though vocabulary usage is certainly is not part of any standardized IQ test.

Regards,
Scott

You come by it honest.

Some of your famous Texans by way of Connecticut, not so much...

See 'Boomer? I tolt you it was aggavating.

I see what you did their.
😝

It's going to be OK, you are not alone!

And from 2013 there's the infamous NY SAFE Act written by "well educated" "professional" lawmakers who, even in those pre-AOC days were proving that even the most ignorant NY City morons can be elected to positions of great power without so much as even a literacy test ( or drug test ). When they listed all the horrible things that make up a semi-automatic "assault rifle"; one of those evil features was a "muzzle break".....

If ya got no brakes it would make you wander.

Return back or simply return.......


Makes me grit my teeth.

I see red when I hear someone say, ”conversate.” What a stupid illiterate misuse of converse. Pretty much every time I hear it is ebonic.

A clipping from a magazine?

Heard Fire Ball Mail by Roy Acuff this morning at breakfast. He was distinctly singing, “Far Ball Mail.”

Eye don't worry about my spell Czech having too correct me when eye misuse words. Yew sea;, eye kin properly use grammatical words and phrases sew good that there's no knead for that. Yew kin dew it two if yew wood jest give it a try.

Two intentional word misuses is: gooder & aint.

Use them a lot.

Supposebly.

WTF?

Another is dilemma. Some put an "n" in there when saying it and writing it.

There's so many dumbazzes using these non-words that Webster finally threw up their hands and included them in the dictionary.

Stupid fuggers finally won.
Now we have to live with it....

Where does fuzzy math fit in! 😀

Two old friends, one a Czechoslovakian and the other Jewish, decide one sunny Sunday afternoon to go to the zoo.
While walking around the old Czechoslovakian gets hungry and buys a hamburger from the concession stand. After a few bites he decides he's had enough and as they pass the lions cage he draws back to throw it in.
The old Jew says, "Don't feed the animals, you Schmuck! Can't you read?"
"Awe, what could it hurt? They're meat eaters."
"No! You Putz!"
So he walks over and reaches in to hand it to a lion and the lion grabs him, drags him in through the bars, and eats him up all gone.

The Jew freaks out.
Running around screaming in Yiddish.

Zoo keeper hears the commotion and comes to check it out.
The old Jew tells him the story and the zoo keep looks at him skeptically.
He says okay and gets his gun.
"Which lion was it?" he asks.
"That one. The one with the big fur around the head."
"The big male?"
"Yeah, that's the one."
So the zoo keeper shoulders his rifle and shoots it then drags it out and cuts it open. Nothing. Empty stomach.
He gives the old Jew the stink eye and says, "well?!?"
"It must have been that one. Yeah, that's the one!"
"The female?"
"Yeah, definitely the female."
So he shoots that one and cuts it open and sure enough, there's the old Czechoslovakian all chewed up inside there.

You know moral of the story?
If a Jew ever tells you the Czech is in the male, don't believe him.

When do you use lie or lay to indicate reclining? Is an object lying there or laying? This afternoon had I lain down for a nap or lied down? If someone is bedridden and ill is he laid up lying up?

I worked with a boat captain that made up a good word, "irrigant" to indicate a state of mind that was both irritable and arrogant.

Wander about what???

Wander about how you gonna stop.


I got schooled by a Brit that acted like he knew English! Dang foreigners. I said irregardless and got a lecture. Damn, I hate being wong.

Could of, should of, would of.
Ya see that quite a lot.

Doesn't make sense.

Could have or could've is how it's spelled.

Another often seen is an instead of and.
Doesn't make sense. Not sure if that one is stupid or just being lazy but the "of" thing definitely falls under the category stupid.

also "suppose to" vs supposed to

No, the question would be "wander about where???"

right next to "settled" science.
(remember the "Green Revolution" of the 1970s? GMO crops were going to end world hunger in 10 years.)

Graduate without "from", as in graduate high school or college.

Whenever I hear that I think of somebody saying "Billy Bob is the first in our family to graduate high school".

That said, it seems to be becoming semi-acceptable in mainstream English usage.

All of this depends on context. In some settings it doesn't matter. in others it matters a lot.

I guess I've been lucky, language always came easy to me. My parents were not highly educated, neither had gone to college, but they were very literate and never tolerated sloppy English in our home.

Paul

Excellent point, Paul! That one grates on me something fierce.

There was a very well-known, knowledgeable fishing writer who thought that wobble was spelled wabble. It can happen to anyone.

Don't forget the word/words "lead and lead"

I make my own lead bullets.

I'll lead the way out.

And, being the Campfire, leade.

As Jerry Clower said, “perzackly.”