A loyal Proof That reader sent this to me. For some reason, I always hold teachers and government workers to a higher standard. I know I shouldn’t, but I do. And I always like to check to make sure there isn’t another meaning for what I think is a misspelled word, but this at the top of my Google search says it all:
I caught this picture at a gas station in Albuquerque this past weekend. One thing they had going for them is that it was the same on two sides of the sign and consistency is a good thing. At first I thought it might have been a spacing issue, particularly since another side of the sign spelled “Red Bul” with only one “t,” but looking at the picture again, I don’t really think that is it.
This was in the sidebar on my LinkedIn page recently and it caught my attention. It obviously escaped someone else’s attention.
This was on my Women’s History calendar that I received as a Christmas gift. While I love that “whom” is used correctly (she was romantically involved with hiM so whoM is correct), the first “with” was sufficient.
While I was shopping at a local grocery store with my daughter recently, I came upon this sign. The correct word is “digital,” meaning “relating to or using calculation directly with digits rather than through measurable physical quantities” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digital) (emphasis added).
I recently received this email. I could immediately tell from the return address on what showed up in my email as “Wellsfrago Loan Company” that something was just not right. I was correct! There is a lot not right here.
A friend sent this one to me. I completely understand that it’s confusing, but when you get it right in one place, it appears you know the difference.
This was from a Facebook group that someone sent to me. Again, it is spelled correctly for another word, but is not the correct word in this context.
My daughter sent this one to me. It looks like they started writing a sentence, then decided to change it, but didn’t read it before publishing.
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