cellostargalactica

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

extravagantshoes

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ranetree

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

tassiekitty

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM


THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE


WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER


THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

emmablackeru

DEFIANT - RESISTANT
DEFINITE - CERTAIN

melancholicmarionette

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

rnatthewgraygublers

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

soggywarmpockets

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

everylineeverystory

*slams reblog*

leonawriter

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

penbrydd

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’)
SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

maverikloki

steftastan

CAN I ADD TO THIS TOO?

IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.

killian-whump

IT’S NOT ‘WALLA!’ OR ‘WAH-LAH!’ IT’S ‘VOILA!’.

AND I CANNOT BEAR IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY CAN’T ‘BARE’ THINGS.

LOOSE IS WHAT SOMETHING IS WHEN IT ISN’T TIGHT. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING THAT’S LOST, ‘LOSE’ THE EXTRA O.

lillpon

ITS: SHOWS POSSESION

ITS: IT FUCKING IS