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To: wiz who wrote (1666)	1/11/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: Robert C. Petersen	Respond to of 4710

Mark, As Yogananda Berra observed from watching: Too many people make wrong mistakes......

To: wiz who wrote (1666)	1/11/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Mark, how about "between you and I"? It's been discussed here before, but it's especially cacophonous and merits mention in any top two/three list.

To: wiz who wrote (1666)	1/11/1999 11:57:00 PM
From: out_of_the_loop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

<<their.. for they are(or vice versa).. eg. their going to buy AMZN today. >> That's similar to, "between you and her." Whenever I hear that, I always think to myself, "between you and her WHAT?"

To: wiz who wrote (1666)	1/12/1999 11:59:00 AM
From: Anaxagoras	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

These are two examples of a common type of error which I call "Mistaking homophones for homographs" where similarity in pronunciation causes mistakes in spelling. Perhaps the most common example of this occurs with 'to', 'too', and even at times 'two'. Other examples of this confusion: (a) 'bare' and 'bear' (b) 'do' and 'due' (although a confusion with 'dew' seldom occurs) (c) 'their', 'there' and the contraction 'they're' Anaxagoras