Grammar
Latin Plurals: "Data is are..."
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This user uses "data", "media", "memoranda", "criteria", and "agenda" as the plurals of "datum", "medium", "memorandum", "criterion", and "agendum".
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Wheaties, Cheerios, and Rice Chex
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This user prefers the cereal comma.
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| This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
they he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
snk | This user says he/she/it sneaked and they snuck. |
to too two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
whom | This user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever they see. |
if & whether | This user knows how to use "if" and "whether" correctly. |
than then | This user understands the difference between using "than" and "then." |
their there they're | This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling! |
your you're | This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you're in need of help. |
Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
its it's | It's really not that hard to use each word in its proper manner. |
its | This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has). |
’s | Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice. |
"..!" | This user believes that punctuation should always come on the inside of quotation marks. |
; | This user knows how to use a semicolon correctly. |
you one | This user knows that one should not use "you" in encyclopedia articles or other formal works. |
Pickyness Pickiness | This user changes the adjective ending "y" to "i" to form nouns with "-ness". |
USage decline | This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration. |
| This user is not British, but can speak with a British accent. |
AIM-0 | This user does not understand or have any interest in AOLer. |
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