I was exchanging IMs with someone this morning and realized belatedly that I had written lot’s for lots.
I hate the way such crap has insinuated itself into my unconscious. It seems to be happening increasingly. Frequent reading of other people’s grammatical transgressions is damaging my brain circuits!
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Was it in the context of "Lot's wife?"
No, unfortunately it was in the context of "large amounts of".
As in, "Lot's wife had large amounts of sodium in her system?"
Thanks (thank's!) for trying to save me from myself. :)
You could report yourself to the apostrophe police...
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Angelina...
The more I write, the more stupid mistakes I make, like "hear" for "here" and the like. Of course, I know the difference! Just today, I caught myself writing "phew" for "few." Huh? Sheesh, LOL!
But there's always that fear that someone will read it and think you really don't know the difference.
It's hardly the Top Horror-Novel Blog award, but...
http://kristentsetsi.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/its-never-bad-to-have-something-new-to-read/
I know what you mean. I'm always finding errors in my writing these days, and it is so embarrassing.
Thanks, Kristen!
I'll display that logo and will award it to some blogs I have in mind. It might take a day or two. (Right now I'm fretting about a contract that hasn't shown up. Or trying not to fret.)
I love that misuse of an apostrophe is so terrible that it won you an award for horror. That made your interesting post that much better.
When writers see an apostrophe misused, they're horrified.
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