A small typographical error

 

 

Thus, more and more people are starting to think that "u" is an actual word, and that "a lot" is one word.

 

(It's not, of course -- no more than "afew," "abunch" or "adog" are words.)

 

 

 

 But enough of this! It's too much like what I do all week for a living!

 "Me thinks" is not so much an error, as it is simply an old-fashioned (archaic) way to say "I think." (Though no longer normally in use, it was common in the 1700s - 1800s.)

 

Sometimes I use it, just because I enjoy old-fashioned speech patterns -- having been exposed to them so frequently in the course of my English education.

 

"Dunno" is of course an informal corruption of "don't know," just as "wanna" and "gonna" are of "want to" and "going to," respectively. Sometimes we English speakers use such slang deliberately, to appear less formal by thus representing the sound of everyday, conversational English, or even just to save time (an issue for struggling hunt and peck typists like myself).

 

 

Confusing "to" and "too" is a VERY common English error.

 

 

 

I think the most common one (few here seem able to get it right) is 'its" vs "it's."

 

It seems as if nine times out of ten, they are used incorrectly here (and elsewhere).

 

I see such errors in expensive advertising quite often. It makes the company look bad (to those of us who notice it) -- as if they have no competent spellers on staff, or as if they just couldn't be bothered.

 

We should strive to get such things right on PA -- as best we can!