30 mistakes in writing and speaking you should be ashamed of

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Never do that. Please.

1. Coordinately

How and why the word "dramatically" turned into this monster is a question to which we have no answer. "Coordinates" and "cardinally" are different words. They are completely different.

2. In general

No compromises: either "in general" or "in general". There is no third.

3. Participate

To take part, a participant - hurts the eye, right? This is because there are two c's in the word “participate”. Remember and do not repeat this mistake in the future.

4. Tsya / tsya

Every time you make such a mistake, Rosenthal cries somewhere. Do not offend Ditmar Elyashevich. There is an easy way to find out whether to put a soft sign at the end of a verb: if the verb answers the question "What to do?" - a soft sign is needed. "What is he doing?" - not needed.

5. Sorry

No way. It is better to first remember that the correct option is “sorry”, and then ask for forgiveness.

6. Put on / put on

Yes, yes, you were probably told about the need to put on clothes and Hope, which would be nice to wear back in school. Nothing, it's not difficult for us to repeat, if only you remember which word is used in which case.

7. Expresso

No matter what you name the drink, they are unlikely to make it faster for you. The vocabulary norm is "espresso". And so, just in case: in the word "latte" the stress falls on the first syllable.

8. Up to the white knee

Such an interpretation of the expression "to white heat" evokes only admiration for the people's ingenuity. The person did not know what heat was, so he replaced it with a simple and understandable knee. Let's fill the gap: heat is when the metal is heated, and it glows red, yellow or white. If it is white, then you brought it.

9. Squeaking at heart

The heart is not a cart or even a worn saddle, there is not much to creak there. But it may well be broken into pieces by the neglect with which people relate to the Russian language. Let's fasten it together more reliably and remember that the correct option is reluctantly.

10. During / during

“During” is a preposition, it is associated with some period of time: within three hours, during the next year. "During" - a combination of a preposition and a noun, here we are talking about a current as a stream of water, for example, the flow of a river or stream. “During” can be painlessly replaced by “during” - use this rule if in doubt.

11. Theirs

Or even worse - theirs. Everyone is fed up with jokes about the chemical elements of the same name, so we can do without them. Just remember: whose? Their.

12. Also / same

"Also" = "and": "The reader of the Lifehacker treats himself and the world around him with sound criticism, and also reasonably approaches the solution of any issues." If such a replacement breaks the meaning of the sentence, this is a sure sign that the option “the same” is appropriate here: “Arkady Petrovich is crazy about Lifehacker, he loves the Russian language just as much”.

13. Love

To adore, as the Big Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language tells us, means to idolize. As you might guess, there was not without the word "god". My God, why do so many strive to write "adore" with "a"?

14. List / signature

The painting is on the wall or ceiling, and the signature is on the document. Only this way and nothing else.

15. Lie

Please remove this word from the active vocabulary once and for all. That's right - put it down.

16. In kration

The leader of the top of strange mistakes. "In short" means "in short". We have no idea what kration is. And we don't really want to, to be honest.

17. Inside

Apparently, it is understood that somewhere there is an unknown interior, in which something is happening. If so, then okay, but it is better to write the adverb and the preposition "inside" together.

18. Sunday / Sunday

If you are talking about the day of the week, then this is Sunday. If about how someone rose from the dead - resurrection. We believe that most often you still mean the first case.

19. My birthday

Or even more trenchant: birthday. In fact, everything is simple here: what day? Birth. Whose birthday? My.

20. Creams

In a professional environment, this option is common, but this does not mean that it should be accepted as the norm. Correctly all the same "creams".

21. Agency

The letter "t" in the word "agent" is present for a reason. Remember her.

22. Curupular

Scrupulous. Scrupulous. Scrupulous. Repeat until you remember.

23. Too much

Chur is a river in the Yakshur-Bodinsky district of the Udmurt Republic. If you are telling how you crossed it, then “through the Chur” is the right option. In cases where you can use the adverb "too", you must write "too".

24. Functionality

When it comes to a set of capabilities, for example, a new smartphone, the only correct option is functionality. Functional is a completely different word, it's about mathematics. Please do not be confused.

25. Try

There is such a rule: if in the first person singular of the present or future tense the verb ends in -yu or -yu, then in the indefinite form and in the past tense the suffixes -eva-, -ova- are used. I will try - try.

26. Extreme

The train of thought is clear: "extreme" is written with "and". But no, it's not that simple. "Extreme" is a relatively recent borrowing from English, and the word "extreme" came to Russian from French, which borrowed it from Latin. Surprise, but these words cannot be test words for each other.

27. Comforter

Although this word seems to be another of the series "tubarette in colidor", this version of the spelling was once considered quite acceptable. In the explanatory dictionary of Ushakov, published in 1935-1940, both the burner and the comfort were mentioned. However, now there are no disagreements: Kuznetsov's Big Explanatory Dictionary recommends exactly the "burner" option.

28. From under the tishka

The school etymological dictionary of the Russian language is in a hurry to report that here we are witnessing a fusion “from under the tishka,” where quiet is silence or calmness. As a result, it turned out "surreptitiously".

29. Slip

A man walked on slippery ice and slipped. There is no "d" there.

30. Simpotic

The test word is "sympathy." So the correct option is “cute”. Remember and pass on to others.