Brake vs. Break - grammar lesson

[C141medic]

Illiterate

 

[duanra]

Maybe, just maybe consider that English is not the 1st language for everyone...that is my case anyway.

 

[Kevy Baby]

Give me a brake

 

[Webeevdrivers]

You're preaching to deaf ears, Ron. The misspellings of homophones on here are rampant, but other than a few of us like you and me, no one seems to care.

But let someone conflate kilowatts with kilowatt-hours, and they lower the boom.

And, coffee has two e's! LOL

And colour is spelled..you know...colour..at least in the civilized world.

 

[IanMcL]

As a verb, the word brake means to slow down or stop.

As a noun, brake is a device for slowing or stopping motion.

The word break means to smash or to shatter as in to break a cup. It also means to take a recess, as in a coffe break.

Which is why Elton John never sang, "Don't go braking my heart!"

Very bad for health if it comes to a sudden stop!

 

[wws]

Then there are those who insist that North American household voltages are nominally 110 and 220 - which they haven't been in 50 years.

 

[duanra]

Also there is this place where you store a plane and you hang your shirt...the hanger !

 

[UncleCreepy]

Speaking of which: a 2x4 isn't actually 2x4.

 

[MXLRplus]

And we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway.

 

[drtimhill]

And we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway.

In the UK you "post" a letter and it is delivered by the Royal Mail
In the US you "mail" a letter and is is delivered by the US Postal Service

 

[drdumont]

drtimhill...
A good one, but
In the US you "mail" a letter and is is lost by the US Postal Service

 

[drtimhill]

I admin one of my pet peeves is when people use “amount” when they mean “number” ... “The amount of cars was...” instead of “The number of cars was...”.

Amount is used for continuous quantities (how much you weigh), number is used for discrete quantities (how many children you have). So when you bake a cake, the recipe calls for an amount of flour and a number of eggs. Saying “amount of eggs” Is as bad as saying “a number of flour”.

 

[MXLRplus]

The effects of misused words affects everyone.

 

[roblab]

Eye sea watt ewe bee dewing they're.

It's "Eye sea watt chew air dune their." Common mistake. Many of us who have learned to spell have pretty much gotten used to living in the same world with people who just don't care. Or who find it's just too hard to look up. I personally would love spending hours correcting people, but it doesn't do any good. At least they have learned to spell TESLA.

My wife asks me how to spell something a half dozen to a dozen times a day. I'm glad I can help, and I'm glad she knows when she can't spell a word. As I write books, it sure saves time and the plot line when I don't have to type a word into Google.

 

[Mr. Big]

I’m so used to seeing spelling and grammatical errors on forums that it doesn’t bother me anymore. But when an applicant submits a resume with errors, I’ll throw it out and not consider that candidate for the job.

 

[duanra]

I admin one of my pet peeves is when people use “amount” when they mean “number” ... “The amount of cars was...” instead of “The number of cars was...”.

Amount is used for continuous quantities (how much you weigh), number is used for discrete quantities (how many children you have). So when you bake a cake, the recipe calls for an amount of flour and a number of eggs. Saying “amount of eggs” Is as bad as saying “a number of flour”.

I like the amount of children ! That is how I feel with my 3 kids sometimes !

 

[Atari2600]

Summons was a blast in March. Then jury duty ended.

 

[destructure00]

I'm trying to brake my roof glass.

 

[RayK]

I'm trying to brake my roof glass. View attachment 545403

That's all wrong. One of the pads should be on the outside and the other on the inside.