‘11 Compound Word Errors that Might Make You Look like a Numbskull’ – ‘Copyblogger’ Blog

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “11 Compound Word Errors that Might Make You Look like a Numbskull”.

Demian Farnworth says, “Even as a seasoned writer, I’m not immune to making simple but stupid mistakes. Take the word “jive” for instance …

Ever since I was kicking the slats out of my crib, I thought it meant “to agree with, to be in harmony.” But nnnnnnnnoooooo.

Jive is a language immortalized by the movie Airplane. The word that I should have been using was “jibe.”

Here’s the thing, the English language is full of pitfalls”.

11 Compound Word Errors that Might Make You Look like a Numbskull

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