Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
At the risk of making myself unpopular, no-one likes a smartass, I am going to point out a frequent error, which is misuse of these words. It happens a lot here.

"There" usually indicates a place, not posession.
"Their" indicates posession.

for example:
" ... Colombians and there punching power" is wrong.
"... Colombians and their punching power" is correct.

"Over there in Colombia there are lots of heavy hitters" indicates correct usage of the word "there".

"They're" is a contraction of the phrase They are.

For example, "Over there in Colombia, their punches are heavy because they're always taking steroids." is gramatically correct but most likely factually incorrect.

Another frequent mistake is misuse of the word "of"

"Could of, would of, should of" is never ever correct. It is always "could have, would have, should have"

ok that's it. Sorry for pontificating, I just wanted to boost my post count up closer to 100.
It's nice to meet someone else who shares my distate for improper pronunciation and spelling.

It's one of my pet hates, although I'm guilty of it myself sometimes and it winds me up no end.

When I'm in a hurry I'll often write you're when I mean to write your and then when I read over my past threads and notice it, I feel like an uneducated illiterate and hope nobody else notices.

Thankfully aside from a small handful of maybe half a dozen most posters on here write like English is their third language so obviously don't notice my faux pas!