A short reference for things people keep getting wrong. Send someone a link instead of a correction. https://omgstop.org/ 2026-08-07T23:20:00.207Z Ziad Ezzat https://omgstop.org/less/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.119Z

One is for things you count. The other is for things you measure. You picked wrong.

https://omgstop.org/theyre/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.127Z

Three words. Three jobs. You are picking one at random.

https://omgstop.org/apostrophe/ 2026-08-07T23:20:00.207Z

They mark possession or missing letters. They have never once made anything plural.

https://omgstop.org/your/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.128Z

Two words. One is ownership, one is a contraction. You are mixing them.

https://omgstop.org/its/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.118Z

The apostrophe means “it is.” It has never meant “belonging to it.”

https://omgstop.org/affect/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.111Z

One is what you do. One is what happens. You have a 50% success rate.

https://omgstop.org/than/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.126Z

One is time. One is comparison. They are not interchangeable.

https://omgstop.org/lose/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.120Z

One extra O turns a verb into an adjective.

https://omgstop.org/whose/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.127Z

Same trick as its/it’s, and the same 50% failure rate.

https://omgstop.org/too/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.127Z

Three words, one sound, and you are picking by vibe.

https://omgstop.org/myself/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.121Z

“Myself” is not a fancier “me.” It is not a politeness upgrade.

https://omgstop.org/could-of/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.114Z

It has always been “have.” You are transcribing a contraction you misheard.

https://omgstop.org/everyday/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.116Z

One is an adjective. One is how often. The space is doing real work.

https://omgstop.org/farther/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.116Z

One is distance you could measure. One is everything else.

https://omgstop.org/whom/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.127Z

There is a test. It takes two seconds and you have never once used it.

https://omgstop.org/lay/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.119Z

One takes an object. One doesn’t. Then the past tenses make it worse.

https://omgstop.org/literally/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.119Z

It means actually, in fact, not as a metaphor. You mean the opposite.

https://omgstop.org/irregardless/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.118Z

The word is regardless. The extra syllable is doing damage, not work.

https://omgstop.org/complement/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.114Z

One is a nice thing you say. One is a thing that completes another.

https://omgstop.org/principal/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.123Z

One is a person or the main thing. One is a rule.

https://omgstop.org/discreet/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

One means subtle. One means separate. The vowels swap.

https://omgstop.org/definitely/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

There is no A in definitely. There has never been an A in definitely.

https://omgstop.org/separate/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

There is a rat in separate. Remember the rat.

https://omgstop.org/accommodate/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.110Z

Two Cs, two Ms. It accommodates both.

https://omgstop.org/necessary/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.121Z

One C, two Ss. Not the other way round.

https://omgstop.org/receive/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.124Z

I before E, except after C. This is the actual case the rule was written for.

https://omgstop.org/occurred/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.122Z

Two Rs. The stress falls on the second syllable, so the consonant doubles.

https://omgstop.org/privilege/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.123Z

No D. There is no D anywhere in privilege.

https://omgstop.org/maintenance/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.120Z

The verb is maintain. The noun drops the I.

https://omgstop.org/publicly/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.123Z

No AL. Publicly is the one adverb that breaks the pattern.

https://omgstop.org/embarrass/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

Two Rs, two Ss. Double everything.

https://omgstop.org/calendar/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.113Z

It ends in -ar, not -er.

https://omgstop.org/recommend/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.124Z

One C, two Ms. The opposite of what everyone guesses.

https://omgstop.org/supposably/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.126Z

You mean supposedly. Supposably is a real word, and it does not mean that.

https://omgstop.org/intensive-purposes/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.118Z

The phrase is “for all intents and purposes.” There is nothing intensive about it.

https://omgstop.org/couldnt-care-less/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

If you could care less, you care somewhat. That is the opposite of your point.

https://omgstop.org/nip-in-the-bud/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.121Z

It’s a gardening metaphor. No butts are involved.

https://omgstop.org/moot/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.120Z

Moot. Not mute. The point isn’t silent, it’s irrelevant.

https://omgstop.org/piqued/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.122Z

Piqued. Not peaked, not peeked. Three homophones, one right answer.

https://omgstop.org/deep-seated/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

Seated, not seeded. Nothing was planted.

https://omgstop.org/home-in/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.118Z

Home in, like a homing pigeon. Hone means to sharpen.

https://omgstop.org/sneak-peek/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

Peek. You are looking, not climbing a mountain.

https://omgstop.org/per-se/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.122Z

Two Latin words. Neither of them is “say.”

https://omgstop.org/first-served/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.117Z

Served. The people are being served, not serving.

https://omgstop.org/bear-with-me/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.113Z

Bear, as in endure. The other one is an undressing request.

https://omgstop.org/case-in-point/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.113Z

In point. Not and point. There aren’t two things.

https://omgstop.org/expresso/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.116Z

Espresso. There is no X. It is not express.

https://omgstop.org/straw-man/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

You beat an argument nobody made. Impressive, irrelevant.

https://omgstop.org/ad-hominem/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.110Z

You attacked the person. The argument is still standing there, untouched.

https://omgstop.org/false-dilemma/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.116Z

Two options were offered. There were never only two.

https://omgstop.org/slippery-slope/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

You skipped from a small step to catastrophe and called it a consequence.

https://omgstop.org/appeal-to-authority/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.111Z

Someone important said it. That still is not evidence.

https://omgstop.org/appeal-to-nature/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.112Z

It’s natural, therefore it’s good. Hemlock is natural.

https://omgstop.org/appeal-to-tradition/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.112Z

We’ve always done it this way. That is a description, not a reason.

https://omgstop.org/bandwagon/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.112Z

Lots of people believe it. Lots of people have been wrong before.

https://omgstop.org/appeal-to-ignorance/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.111Z

Nobody has disproved it. That is not the same as it being true.

https://omgstop.org/begging-the-question/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.113Z

Your conclusion is hiding in your premise. Also: this phrase does not mean what you think.

https://omgstop.org/post-hoc/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.123Z

It happened afterwards. That does not mean it happened because of.

https://omgstop.org/correlation-causation/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.114Z

Two things move together. That is where your evidence stops.

https://omgstop.org/hasty-generalization/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.117Z

You met three of them. There are eight billion people.

https://omgstop.org/anecdotal/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.111Z

Your uncle is not a study.

https://omgstop.org/cherry-picking/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.113Z

You found the data that agreed with you and stopped looking.

https://omgstop.org/no-true-scotsman/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.122Z

You redefined the category to get rid of the counterexample.

https://omgstop.org/tu-quoque/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.127Z

You do it too. My argument is still standing.

https://omgstop.org/red-herring/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.124Z

That’s a different subject, raised on purpose.

https://omgstop.org/moving-the-goalposts/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.121Z

You met the standard. They raised it.

https://omgstop.org/loaded-question/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.119Z

There is an assumption smuggled into that question.

https://omgstop.org/gamblers-fallacy/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.117Z

The coin does not remember. It is not due.

https://omgstop.org/sunk-cost/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

You already spent it. It’s gone either way.

https://omgstop.org/composition-division/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.114Z

True of the parts is not automatically true of the whole. Or the reverse.

https://omgstop.org/equivocation/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.115Z

You used one word to mean two things and hoped nobody noticed.

https://omgstop.org/texas-sharpshooter/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.126Z

You drew the target around the bullet holes.

https://omgstop.org/personal-incredulity/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.122Z

You can’t imagine how it works. The universe is not obliged to fit in your head.

https://omgstop.org/fallacy-fallacy/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.116Z

Their argument was bad. Their conclusion might still be right.

https://omgstop.org/survivorship-bias/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.126Z

You are only looking at the ones that made it.

https://omgstop.org/relative-privation/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.125Z

Someone has it worse. That is true of literally everyone.

https://omgstop.org/genetic-fallacy/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.117Z

You judged the claim by where it came from.

https://omgstop.org/poisoning-the-well/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.123Z

You discredited them before they opened their mouth.

https://omgstop.org/middle-ground/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.120Z

The truth is not automatically halfway between two positions.

https://omgstop.org/motte-and-bailey/ 2026-08-07T23:13:01.120Z

You defended the modest claim and then went back to the bold one.