Grammar v.5

You know how much I love grammar, and how much it makes me cringe when someone spells something wrong or misuses punctuation, etc.  And so many times when I write these posts, I mention how, now that I've said something to criticize other people, I'm going to have something wrong in my own post.  Murphy's law.  Actually, it's Muphry's Law.  Thanks to Betsy, I've been made aware that this is an actual thing: "Muphry's law is an adage that states that "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law. " (via Wikipedia)  The article goes more into detail and provides a fun read.

Regardless, here are some fun grammar-y things I've collected over the past few weeks:

English PSA: weary (tired) ≠ wary (cautious). Peek (look) ≠ peak (mountain) ≠ pique (irritation). Striped (pattern) ≠ stripped (no clothes).
— Amanda C. (@DragonflightGal) August 24, 2013

SERIOUSLY. Why is the difference between it's/its so hard to understand? It's = it is. The end.
— Lisa Butler (@elembee_) August 28, 2013

PSA: even in instances of gender uncertainty, you cannot use "their" as a singular possessive pronoun. #grammar
— Betsy (@btransatlantic) September 22, 2013

More for your reading pleasure:

6 Common Punctuation Mistakes that Drive Us Crazy: this misused apostrophe, the ubiquitous exclamation mark, the crazy comma, the misplaced semicolon, the quotation mark, and the blurring of text talk with real writing.

And...

via Lifehack

For detailed explanations of each of these (including one Seinfeld video), visit Lifehack.

I'm going to go re-read my post three or four times now, just in case.