Friday, July 25, 2008

Commonly misused/misspelled words and phrases (Part 47)

If you've been following this thread, you know what's coming. Here are some more words many people misuse or misspell:

Dying vs. dyeing

Wrong: I can’t go out with you tonight because I’m dying my hair.
Right: I can’t go out with you tonight because I’m dyeing my hair.

Unless a woman is changing her hair color at the bottom of the ocean, most likely she’s dyeing it, not dying.

Ink pen

Wrong: May I borrow your ink pen?
Right: May I borrow your pen?

Because all writing pens (as opposed to, for example, pig pens) contain ink and only ink, saying ink pen is redundant.

That's all for now. I have plenty more to go, so y'all come back now, y'here?

Mark.

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