On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:53:37 -0500, Nancy Young
> wrote:
> On 12/3/2013 2:14 PM, gtr wrote:
> > On 2013-12-03 16:56:53 +0000, Nancy Young said:
> >
> >> On 12/3/2013 10:47 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>> In article >,
> >>> Dave Smith > wrote:
> >>>> http://m.staples.ca/sbdca/en_CA/cre/...s/grammarquiz/
> >>>
> >>> That was a very easy quiz. Nevertheless, I got one wrong (whom).
> >>
> >> Did that make you a grammar guru like me? Heh. That
> >> was easy to ace.
> >
> > It turns out there are vastly more grammar gurus than I would have guessed.
>
> I'd be surprised if most people here didn't nail that quiz.
>
Didn't bother looking at it, mainly because I don't claim to be a good
speller or a grammar guru but bear/bare as in "B____ with me" gets me
every time. Bear is an animal and bare is naked. Neither one makes
sense in that context. We should have a third spelling to use.
What grates on my last nerve when it is misused? fewer/less.
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