Serjeant Grumbles
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- Mar 20, 2005
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The yoke? Why would you have eggs yoked together like a pair of oxen?
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-words-youre-confusing-with-other-words/#ixzz2OfwCz3ET
Everyone spells words wrong or screws up their grammar from time to time, and when you suggest a perfectly reasonable solution like prison, or the electric chair, suddenly you are a "grammar Nazi" who makes a fuss over "technicalities" when everyone knows damn well what they meant to say.
And you know what, if people are going to spell "receive" wrong or complain about "hypocrasy," OK, whatever, it's pretty obvious what they're getting at. But sometimes they're not just spelling a word wrong, but replacing it with an existing word, with its own definition, creating an entirely different sentence with a new meaning. And if the new meaning is funny, it is a travesty, a travesty I say, if nobody is there to appreciate and laugh at it.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/9-words-youre-confusing-with-other-words/#ixzz2OfwCz3ET