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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I should thank her for writing such a boring, tedious book filled with "old man yells at cloud" energy that it started me on the path away from prescriptivism.

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Drive-thru

Hi-way

Tonite

Rite

These spellings are extremely pervasive at my workplace and they drive me nuts. Granted, many people there are non-native English speakers. But that just means the people teaching them English are doing it wrong.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
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