 | This user previously used another account: TroyGab. |
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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After having | Having learnt to appreciate good grammar, this user thinks that After is a superflous prefix. |
| ubiquitous ≠ widespread | This user asserts that the more common word is often not the most precise. |
try and
try to | This user tries to discourage usage of "try and". |
| Subj
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This user prefers that the subjunctive mood be used. Were this user you, he would use it.
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| "There's" with a plural subject | This user knows that "there's" with a plural subject is a pervasive grammatical error. There's There are too many people making this mistake. Don't be one of them. |
| …in. | Ending a sentence with a preposition is something that this user is okay with. |
to
too
two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
| if & whether | This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
than
then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
their
there
they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
your
you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
| its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
its
it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
| its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
| its & it's | This user thinks
ohh, if you want it to be possessive,
it's just i-t-s,
but if it's supposed to be a contraction,
then it's i-t-apostrophe-s...
Scalawag. |
| who | This user prefers using who for both the object and subject case. Who does it hurt to simplify things? |
| You and Me | This user thinks that if you believe it is incorrect to use "you and me" as the object of a sentence, a little talk needs to be had by you and me... |
| less & fewer < 10 | This user understands the difference between less & fewer and considers instructions such as "10 items or less" and "25 words or less" to be correct English. |
| much & many | This user understands the difference between much & many. |
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."
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This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
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| English Singulars: "The data is..."
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This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns.
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ain't nobody | This user hates seeing double negatives clutter up the English language. He wants to stomp it out no matter what it takes. |
| based
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Based on experience, this user knows that based off is nearly always incorrect.
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| . The | This user does not put two spaces after a full stop. |
| , | This user fixes commas that separate verb from subject or that separate two verbs or verbal phrases in a compound predicate. |
| "…" | This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones. |
"…"!
US vs. UK | This user uses "logical quotation marks". Forcing internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a nationalistic style issue! |
| ; | This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
big words | This user opposes the use of esoteric, abstruse and recondite big words in Wikipedia articles when simple ones will do. |
 | This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
you one | This user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopedia articles or other formal works. |
 | This user can program in R. |
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