Which word in the English language is most commonly used incorrectly?

Question

All answers had merit in the previous question but are incorrect, sorry. Someone touched on it, but ***hint*** placed it in a category as being used incorrectly only by a certain group. The word is actually the most misused in the English language by all English speaking people as a whole, it's been found.

Answer 1

their, there, they're? They seem to be used interchangebly by many people.

Ummm...what about and? Not too many people know when to use a comma with "and" or when to end the string of them

Answer 2

" insegrievious " that's an adjective coined by using Gary Owens, a la radio and television character whom you will have seen on the main modern Emmy Awards software. He exchange into the announcer from chortle-In with the large deep voice. The "coolest" ingredient approximately this word is that it could mean in spite of you go with for it to intend and that's cool sounding too !

Answer 3

I have no idea what your previous question was....

Maybe this counts as 2 words, but what I see most commonly misusused is "a lot," spelled ALOT.

Even educated people seem to be unaware that this is two separate words.

Answer 4

1

Answer 5

I don't know which is the word used the most often in that sense, but the one that bugs me is when people say, "I graduated college" when it should be, "I graduated from college." The same goes for high school. You have to graduate FROM college (or high school), since nobody has power to graduate the whole college by himself or herself.

Answer 6

The word is "incorrectly".

Answer 7

the

Answer 8

Probably "its" and "it's," which used interchangeably, it seems, without regard to which is which.

Answer 9

accept and except

affect and effect

diffuse and defuse

flesh and flush

hay and straw

Answer 10

infer