Clicked on a headline: "Tucson lunch counter opening in 'very near future.'" It was about a Tucson fast-food franchise, Eegees, expanding to a Phoenix suburb. From the headline, I was picturing something like a Woolworths soda fountain, not just another sandwich shop with a drive-thru lane. How about you? What does "lunch counter" mean to you? #EnglishAsSheIsWrit #MisleadingHeadline
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Took me a while to figure out what was wrong about this but I finale got it. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Clicked and verified the headline before the paywall came down. Someone got paid to write it. Someone else (also paid) didn't see anything wrong with it and approved. What's worse, half the people reading this toot will say "What's the problem, Donkey Hote? We know what they mean." JFC. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Made it to "children" and threw in the towel. A for effort, though. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Actually it's 'scampi, which i's fancy for 'shrimp. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit #GrocersApostrophe
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Almond Dillos spotted in the wild. Well actually on Reddit. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Some languages are read top to bottom, some bottom to top, some right to left. Reading in an X pattern is new to me, though. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Gonna grant benefit of doubt to this one as a possible autocorrect error, but only if courtesy was horribly misspelled in the first place. #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Meanwhile, a classic pops up on a Twitter list of things men can do to be more attractive to women ... #EnglishAsSheIsWrit
Home of sexuals! Snort! #chroniclesofthemasterrace #englishassheiswrit #eggcorn
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