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There was one of those crappy giant dollar stores near my place where their slogan was Nothing Over a Dollar, "Ever". Hmm, so by "ever", you mean always?

Ooh, how about express lanes at the grocery store featuring signs that say "12 items or less?" (1)





(1) I'm pretty sure this is a David Foster Wallace Memorial Gripe.

Example?

I see what you did there.

The first page of the drink menu at Capitol City Brewery in northwest D.C. is titled "Martini's". I won't return until they fix it.

Man, that's a bit much.

On a side note, I dig on the avatar - it's what I've been using as my Stars avatar for years.

superfluous apostrophe, but totally nailed the your/you're

I could care less about anything in this thread.

Irregardless of what you say I could care less what all you nits think about my spelling and grammar anyways.

I think you're post beat mine by < 10 seconds.

How will you know they've fixed it unless you return?

Either way, I'm likely guilty of misuse myself, because it has become like "begging the question" -- the misuse is now the mainstream use.

I'm not 100% positive since I don't have a reference right here, but I believe that if you're using it to replace "because of," that that is incorrect.

"We were late to the game due to an accident on the highway" is wrong, AFAIK.

Something like "Our victory was due to our teamwork" is correct. ("Due to" as "could be attributed to.")

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I only nit on this front because it was drilled into my head for some ungodly reason during SAT tutoring.

In like my first writing class in college, I openly corrected some dude at a peer review session, and everyone looked at me like I was the worst human being alive.

I think the use of proactive is the thing that sets me off the most (out of everything not yet mentioned), since proactive doesn't mean active--it means something like anticipatory, but people get ir right maybe one time in 10.

Truthfully, that's only part of the reason. None of their beers are worth $6 a pint ,with the exception of the Election Ale, and their service is usually slow.

Thanks, I wanted to make it my Stars avatar too, but I've apparently changed it too many times already.

How does substituting "because of" for 'due to' not work in the second one?