Common errors in English usage

posted at 12.46pm

Common Errors in English UsageHere’s where I become Mr. Nitpicky again, because I love stuff like this.

It’s beck and call, not beckon call, schitzophrenic does NOT mean split personalities, it means split from reality, and Xmas isn’t an attempt to remove Christ from Christmas, X is the Greek letter for chi.

Study up, so that you can always be right in those grammatical arguments.

Common Errors in English

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