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05 January 2012

Stealth Mountain reminds tweeters that there is a difference between "sneak peek" and "sneak peak"

post by: filthy light thief at: 13:00 | 12 comments

That is awesome.

Now I wish someone would make one of those to correct people misspelling "withdrawal," which is about 95% of the people on the internet.

posted by BoringPostcards 05 January | 13:29

And the use of "lose/loose".

I will lose my mind if I find that I have a screw loose.

posted by eekacat 05 January | 14:00

I'm not all that surprised something like this exists. I'm astounded it has over 1,600 followers, though.

posted by FishBike 05 January | 14:07

my interest is peaked

posted by Eideteker 05 January | 14:26

Might as well tilt at windmills. The people who don't get it right for the most part don't care and won't change. Besides, once you take it upon yourself to correct someone, you become perceived as the offender.

That said, can't anybody get lie/lay correct???

posted by JanetLand 05 January | 15:03

It didn't correct me the other day. I was sad.

posted by richat 05 January | 15:49

I'm going to make one that corrects people with anachronistic terms for groups of people. "I think you mean coloreds/eskimos/mohemmadans"

posted by Firas 05 January | 15:53

Someone could make a full-time job just out of apostrophe's.

posted by dg 05 January | 16:30

And there's this in response: http://twitter.com/#!/ALLTHEBOTS

What a strange world we live in.

posted by peacheater 05 January | 16:35

hmmm... sneeky.

posted by oneswellfoop 05 January | 17:17

Someone could make a full-time job just out of apostrophe's.

If nothing else, it could be a road trip and a subsequent book.

posted by filthy light thief 05 January | 17:47

athiest. KILL KILL.

A friend of mine was incensed recently to be caught by the "would of" bot after tweeting "I would of course be prepared to do X...". I gave him a gentle lecture about comma use.

posted by altolinguistic 06 January | 06:10

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