KillerBeauty:



http://pulse.ng/bi/strategy/strategy-here-are-the-most-commonly-confused-words-in-the-english-language-according-to-microsoft-id6352025.html

No 6 has being debate for years, ' I don tire sef for the mata ' Nice one Op

English!

How to easily identify educated illiterates on Nairaland: ANYONE WHO WRITES "I AM" or "I'm" as "AM".

As you can see, we just happen to have so many educated illiterates on Nairaland.

It's a pity.

KillerBeauty:



http://pulse.ng/bi/strategy/strategy-here-are-the-most-commonly-confused-words-in-the-english-language-according-to-microsoft-id6352025.html

I don't agree. The most confused words in the world and especially on social media are "Am" and "I'm". Quote me anywhere or just flip through nairaland.com you'd be amazed at how many people don't know the difference.

I didnt know i understood English this much.

KillerBeauty:



http://pulse.ng/bi/strategy/strategy-here-are-the-most-commonly-confused-words-in-the-english-language-according-to-microsoft-id6352025.html

This is highly educative

One of my biggest problems is ...and has always been this issue of advice and advise....... Wait OP which one is advisne again? See wahala again? Then the issue of preposition, sh*t doesn't have Any rule. English isn't bae, na the koko be that- Mugabe 207 AD.

but sincerely speaking I was never at anytime confused abt dz eng....seriously I was expecting more not all dz up here

OP you did a nice job here, I have gotten some things. but I think Microsoft omitted one crucial word.
Quiet and Quite...allot of the literature section writers don't know how to use them.

May be some of you that needs accommodation may apply for this VACANCY

UncleJudax:

They will tell you "since you understood what they meant to say, that's all that matters". They want the economy to be fixed, not not there English...because it is not their "mother tongue"

Laziness!

oga fix your English first

it is their not there

"Loose and lose, loss and lost" are among

Can and Can't

Lose and Loose

Afford and Avoid

Their and There

Been and Being

.etc

'renumeration', remenuration' and 'remuneration'.

debiliciousmay:
Educative and interesting, Nigerians have been making grammatical blunder from time in memorial.

Lol. Nigerians have been making grammatical blunder by spelling "immemorial" as "inmemorial"

woodfrank:


There is even a mistake in your first paragraph. Data/reveal

I have wondered if singular verbs now go with DATA, a plural form of DATUM. The writer actually made the mistake twice but I was hesitant to say MISTAKE knowing full well that English language is graced with a lot of exceptions. I had felt the writer was acting within that orbit. Having said that, I must fess up that I learned something new from the write-up. Kudos!

EbukaHades10:
They forgot "I'm and Am"

>95% of people are guilty of this mistake.

I swear English Hard pass Maths..

KillerBeauty:



http://pulse.ng/bi/strategy/strategy-here-are-the-most-commonly-confused-words-in-the-english-language-according-to-microsoft-id6352025.html

You guys should give us a break about this mad language called English
This is the most confused ppl on earth over their language and i dont kw why it will be imposed on ppl.
Today, a particular sentence is correct and acceptable, in few yrs to come they come up with another sentence that will render the one we speak today invalid. Few yr to come, they will say it is no longer correct. What kind of confused ppl is this. Cant their language stand the taste of time like our African language. The same thing our great grand parents call a thing, is still what we call it today and everybody understand it. Cant they emulate us.

Bros, how are u sure that what u r teaching us today that u will not wake up tomorrow to see that they have been changed to something else? Pls when i speak and u understands, abeg leave it like dat.

But this is all basic foundational grammar. Education has absolutely gone to the dogs.

awesome

I think say oyinbo no dey make mistake when dem dey blow English

I learnt something new

sammyscholar:
I have wondered if singular verbs now go with DATA, a plural form of DATUM. The writer actually made the mistake twice but I was hesitant to say MISTAKE knowing full well that English language is graced with a lot of exceptions. I had felt the writer was acting within that orbit. Having said that, I must fess up that I learned something new from the write-up. Kudos!

The exception might come for the second one. The data/comes is correct. 'The' has made it more specific. Nice one OP.

SirWere:
For Nigerians :

1) Dat and That

2) u and You

3) @ and at


4) Lalasticlala and snake

Lol e burst my kidney

OgidiOlu3:

I agree with "avoid and afford". I saw a place they wrote "Buy your kerosene at an avoidable price"

must of us ehn they miss up for this thing dem they call english. Even the oyinbos dem too they learn am no be small thing ooo. Mathematics simple pas english that na formular u dey follow.

KillerBeauty:



http://pulse.ng/bi/strategy/strategy-here-are-the-most-commonly-confused-words-in-the-english-language-according-to-microsoft-id6352025.html

ok

shumuel:
No 6 has being debate for years, ' I don tire sef for the mata ' Nice one Op

Been and being
There and their
Your and you're


These are easily top three of the most commonly confused words. I see these three even at managerial level, across many countries, even the US and the UK.

Evaberry:




oga fix your English first

it is their not there

I was going to laugh it off but then you would continue to parade your mediocrity everywhere. "Their" is called possessive pronoun, and it was correct the way I used it. Get a dictionary pleas.

UncleJudax:

I was going to laugh it off. But then you would continue to parade your mediocrity . "Their" is called possessive pronoun, and it was correct the way I used it. Get a dictionary please.

if u say so sir


but u said "there english"



it's okay ooo