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Originally Posted by billh1963
I gave up on trying to point out these types of errors a long time ago. Unfortunately, most people have stopped reading anything more challenging than a People magazine. They hear words being used; however, they haven't seen the word spelled.
That is how we get the prevalent misuse of:
moot and mute
verses and versus
conscious and conscience
intents and intense
brake and break
disk and disc
insure and ensure
etc....you get the idea!
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Yep. It's hardly worth it.