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Heard from a co-worker from a manufacturing job a long time ago:
He (the technical writer) is goin' to change the floormat of our work procedures again. He's already done it twicet.
I thought of another one, and I am guilty of it but I'm also very aware and hear it in commercials, on TV shows...sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised to hear it correctly on things I might otherwise expect poor grammar, and chagrined to hear it incorrectly on productions I feel should know better:
Using that instead of who. For example "Those girls that ate the nachos are now very sick." To me, it should be "those girls WHO ate..."
I'm not even sure it's grammatically incorrect, but it drives me crazy.
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