#3 Grammar

The first mistake I noticed is on a bill.  The company used "principle" instead of "principal".  I normally wouldn't have even known the difference, but I happened to come across it after looking at the book.  I had to actually look it up to find if it was correct or not.  The book states that the word principal is used to describe someone in rank or authority or primary meaning first.  The word principle means a doctrine or rule of conduct.  This doesn't really explain if you should use one or the other when describing the actual amount as shown below.  I then had to google which one people state is correct because the book wasn't very clear.  According to many different sources, the word "principal" should be used on the billing statement.  That was definitely something new I learned.

The next mistake I found was the usual use of "ur" for your, you're.  I received it in a text from a friend.  I am guilty of doing this all the time.  I shorthand every possible word I can when communicating via text, email, and notes.  For my job, we have to make notes on everything we do and it is documented in each file.  In order to keep the files from growing to ridiculous lengths, we shorthand all of our notes.  We also create abbreviations that only our office would understand and would be hard for outsiders to interpret.  For example, we use DOI all the time.  Everyone in our office knows that is "date of injury," but it would mean anything to anyone else.

My husband is guilty of the third mistake I saw last week.  He ALWAYS spells "damn" without the "n."  This drives me crazy!  I will message him back and make some reference to swimming, lakes, or the ocean just to remind him that it requires the "n."  It seems to be somewhat of a pet peeve of mine.  He get mad at me when I tease him about it and states "you know what I mean!"