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Nice, but as a not native English speaker I’ve always wondered about: anybody/anyone, somebody/someone? Greets from Germany.
They’re pretty much interchangeable. Some would argue that one is slightly more formal than body, and vice versa.
It all come down to which sound / syllable grouping would go better with your sentence, such as in lyrics, poetry, and prose.
The only exception is with importance: “I’m nobody.” Don’t use ‘noone’, as it is often considered incorrect due to the double vowels causing differences in spelling and pronunciation. If you do use it, better to hyphenate (no-one) or treat as two words (no one).
Laga is right to some degree. Both are used in general discourse, but -one is more correct, and should certainly be used in formal speech/writing. Using -body in almost any context has always struck me as rather childish.
He’s quite correct about “I’m a nobody” being an exception (note the indefinite ‘a’), but ‘no one’ is always ‘no one’; ‘noone’ and ‘no-one’ are most certainly NOT real words!
Nope. I guess this is one of the lesser-argued differences between American and English, as seen in the third link.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/no+one
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noone
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noone
“No one” is grammatically incorrect if you think about it. No one thing goes there. Silly English.
This is very useful and will be helpful for many facebook users. Oatmeal has similar article and they are great as well.
These are really funny and informative. Thanks!
Already on most popular? lol wut?
Now, if only we could get people to actually apply this, we might actually see what would appear to be a slight increase in intellect. At least it may appear that way anyway.
What about the large number of people who think that “alot” is a word? It’s two words, people!
Great infographic. I wish you would add, “I could care less” to your list. “I could care less” makes absolutely no sense. The correct expression is, “I could not care less.” Yet, I think the majority of people use the incorrect expression.
how much and how many is also one.
How much ….? = uncountable nouns
For example: How much coffee do you drink?
How many ….? = countable nouns
For example: How many cups of coffee do you drink?
People writing – and even saying(!) – ‘brought’ when they mean ‘bought’ has to be one of my biggest linguistic grievances.
When someone tells me they “brought a new car”, It takes a lot of self-control to stop myself replying “where did you bring it to?”
And then there are those who pronounce ‘either’ and ‘neither’ as “eether” and “neether” – that one really grates!
Suggest checking dictionary for pronunciation of “either” and “neither.”
Actually, General Melchett, either is right and neither is wrong.
There are some of these phrases I still do wrong.
Thank you very much for sharing, this is awesome!
very well explained and in an interactive way.. cool!!
‘Pacific’ = meaning the ocean west of the USA; ‘specific’ meaning the particular thing. And one recent favourite ‘axe’= a tool for chopping wood; ‘ask’ = to make a request.
In other words, the Pacific Ocean is a specific ocean.
versus someone saying “…what I meant was I was only talking about that pacific thing to other day….” when they weren’t talking about the ocean.
is this a bad time to point out that the filename given to the image is gramargoofs.jpg
i note you have spelled/spelt it correctly in the image itself though!
I know at least one person that has done each one of these. Some of them have done them all…
How about Postpone and Prepone
there is no such word as Prepone!!!