Thank you for posting these rules. I just wish that posters would follow them. At the risk of sounding like a fuddy-duddy, when did we stop teaching grammar in school?

Spell checkers are partially to blame for a lot of grammar mistakes. When people run spell checkers they think their mistakes are covered! But spell checkers won't catch the mistakes above. Oh, wait! That's not the spell checker's fault. It's the fault of those who don't bother to proofread in addition to spell check!

The one I saw the most often, at least with younger writers (my two children when they were in Junior High and High School, and now my step-daughter in High School) was:

Which and Witch!

I see the ones that you posted a lot too, Jodi. And I'm sure I make some of them.

Which reminds me of another:

To, Two, Too!

I have the job of proofreading technical writing (for a specific topic) at work. I can guarantee that these sort of mistakes persist well beyond Junior High and High School!

On the other hand, although it would be nice if everyone followed all of the grammar rules, it's not going to stop me from reading and enjoying 'as is'. A lot of nice, friendly, really good people don't always use good grammar. So what? It doesn't make them any less nice, friendly, or really good.

So which witch is which?

The "fewer and less" mistakes drive me nuts and I hear the constantly, even in tv commercials. It seems like no one used the work "fewer" anymore.

"them" and "uses"! My finger hit "submit" before my brain was ready. I don't think I've done this before--a little ironic, eh?

Thanks for sharing! The ones that really drive me nuts are YOUR and YOU"RE and THEN and THAN. I don't know why those are so hard for so many people to remember!

:) I don't believe I have ever heard "Witch" for
"Which" -- they don't sound the same, but the
one that makes my teeth shudder is hearing someone
say..I "seen" him/her, etc., or using "Went" for "Gone".

Funny, how certain mistakes really grip us LOL

This one isn't on the list and I have never seen it in print, but I grit my teeth when I hear somebody say "axe" instead of "ask".

Come to think of it, a lot of those types of mistakes bother me more than I'd like to admit. For instance:

liberry instead of library
Febuary instead of February
probly instead of probably

Spelling is what gets me. Defanite for definite is very common. On another site I belong to one of the women almost daily says what her adgenda is going to be, instead of agenda. I'm sure I have used some of the words listed incorrectly, I'll have to go over the list again.

Speaking of "witch", one common misspelling I see is the word sandwich. Some insist on spelling it "sandwitch". Another is combining "a lot" into "alot".
It's such a small thing, and I wish I didn't notice it at all.

The one that really bothers me is the first one on the list - your and you're. It irks me when I see these put in the wrong places, though I don't know why because I am certainly no expert.

Jodi so much for sharing this great information here...appreciate it.

What a great learning tool, thanks Jodi! People misuse "myself" SO much!

One that bothers me is "exscape" instead of "escape". I hate it when people add that extra x to it and I hear it all the time.

WOW, now I feel stupid. I forgot all that stuff.

Besides the above mentioned seen for saw and axe for ask, irregardless is not a word. Any time anyone says it, I just want to scream.

Glad you all enjoyed the infographic. Below is a link to the daily Infographic site.

The one that always trips me up is "well" and "good". As in "How are you?" "I'm doing well." or is it "I'm doing good."? My daughter corrects me every time and it never sinks in which is the correct word. So I just say "I'm doing okay." :-)

In high school my DD corrected her English teacher a few times, often pointing out that the questions on quizzes were not phrased properly. And she was nearly always right. We thought for sure DD was going to be reprimanded or something but it never happened. We were just relieved when the school year was over and the teacher was behind us.

Then the next year, she came home complaining that she had the same teacher, this time for History. Oh, no! When I checked with her a few days later to see how it was going, she told me she was the best History teacher ever ... because that's what her degree was in, not English. Turns out the school just stuck the teacher into the English slot to get her into the school until the History class opened up. By the end of her senior year, my daughter was such good friends with the English/History teacher that she lived at the teacher's home for two weeks and watched her son and two dogs while the teacher was on her honeymoon.

Jodi-

Here is a link that might be useful: Daily Infographic

I say..."thumbs up" to Jodi for sharing the link!

jodi-
That graphic was very well-done, concise, and clear. My favorite gripe these days is the "grocer's apostrophe." For reasons I can't explain, people who make signs often seem compelled to form a plural by adding an apostrophe before the final "s." If I see another sign selling apple's, pizza's, latte's, haircut's, etc., I'm going to get out my marking pen.

Here is a link that might be useful: apostrophe catastrophes

Jodi, if your health and wealth are fine, you're doing well. If you are committing acts of charity and benefit to others, you're doing good :-)
We had a priest at school who, if someone replied, "I'm good" when asked how they were (a common response here), would roar, "I was enquiring after your health, not your morals!"
So, "well" is health or wealth, "good" is morals.

Thank you! I need a reminder now and then.

I like it!

Fewer/less is one of my pet peeves, especially when I hear it used by a talking head or announcer on TV.

The Dangling Participle causes funny visions in my mind sometimes.

One that bothers me is: Here is a picture of XXX and I.

I believe the typing error that I see the most is YOU for YOUR.

Apparently some don't read what they are typing and don't see that a red line under a word indicates a misspelled word.

It would be easy to save that graphic, print it out, and keep it handy.

Sue