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Old Tue Apr 05, 2016, 09:04am
Altor Altor is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich View Post
So, random thought -- were Americans always this bad at spelling or are we just noticing it more now that everyone's online?
This wasn't a misspelling, it was a misused word. People have been misusing words in their conversations forever. When you misuse a word on an Internet board like this, 100 people see it. When you misuse it in a conversation, only a few people may notice.