Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 27, 2017

We need more like her!

And don’t forget ‘your and you’re’ and ‘site,cite,and sight’.

Lie, lay; Know the difference.

Autocorrect totally sucks. Muriel would be better, or maybe if folk’s today learned English instead of Twitter?

Its not the speling, its the sin-tax.

Don’t forget to,too, and two.

If autocorrect is so bad, why don’t you turn it off? When it was offered to me, I said “no”.

Next week:

to

too

two

Use them correctly!

Muriel must be someone’s Gramma.

Sensor/censor. Favorite peeve?? When/how to use an apostrophe before the “s”.

And in Canuckistan it’s favour / favor, neighbour / neighbor

what i find more UNFORGIVABLE are those nitwits who write “could/should/would of…” instead of “could/should/would HAVE…” what’s funny is that i haven’t seen anyone write “may of….”

I’d like her to pare a pear pair.

Just remember commas save lives.

I bought a t-shirt at the Brookfield Zoo, It has two scenarios, one says, “Let’s eat, Bob” Bob is sitting at a table with two sharks. The next says, “Let’s eat Bob.” The two sharks are sitting at the table, but Bob is ON the table! ;)

Other than that, don’t get too critical if the person isn’t a regular offender. I make the most mistakes when I don’t have much time and post in a hurry. It happens to the best of us. Now, people that do it every time, well, yeah, guess they weren’t paying much attention in class. Teachers can only teach those willing to learn.

I cant find my dictionary, did I loose it? When did ‘lose’ morph into ‘loose’ and why?

“Theyir’re” I fixed it.

loved spelling, english, grammar and literature in school. can empathize with her. rock on, muriel.

And let’s not for forget the overuse of capital letters, putting commas in the wrong places, apostrophes in simple plurals, and quotes for emphasis.— C. J. PrairieDog, President, Apostrophe and Quotation Mark Protection Society of North Dakota

U read it and no what it means that is good enough.

Which one of them there cats is Capt’n Eddie’s?

how about the current use of ‘get ahold of’ instead of ‘get hold of.’ Or ‘meet up with’ instead of ‘meet.’

And the cats have the right attitude. They are indifferent to the minor quibbles we humans inflate into ‘breaking news.’

There there, Muriel, there there.

Considering how many mistakes autocorrect lets by, Muriel is better.

Eats, shoots, and leaves

There used to be a sign on a real estate development around here that advertised “5, 10, 15, and 20 Acre TRACKS for sale!” Drove me NUTS every time I saw it!

Rouge Angles of Satin.

A descending bird; “The dove dove down.”

English does not borrow from other language. It lures them into dark alleys and mugs them.

rein, reign, rain—I see the first two used incorrectly quite frequently.

Ware, wear and where.

Auto correct didn’t exist in 1960. We had to use mechanical typewriters. “Auto correct” was a few gallons of White Out, & a dictionary.

I suffer from a mild form of dyslexia.

Fore the most part I’m okay reading (input) but when i am writhing or trying to spell (output)things are not so good.

All vowels are interchangeable at any time. So are 3s and Es. And at times they go missing altogether. I also used to have a problem with Ws, Ms and Ns. There was also a not-a-letter that had 3 humps, not just one (n) or two (m).

I love my spell check because when i am seeing the word in print i can see (most of the time) instantly where i went wrong.

I have no use for spelling or grammar nazis. They have no idea how some of us struggle with even simple spelling.

If we just used there for their, they’re and there, no one would be confused. Same for to two and too.

And, ‘it are’ of course. . .

Your versus You’re

Their. They’re. There’s a difference.

Their is? Whoa…

English need a rational spelling reform. It has been due for centuries …

Yugo,Muriel :~)

My wife, who is learning English really gets confused by words sounding alike, meaning something else, and spelled differently.

I drive her crazy with sentences like: " They’re there, but here we hear, it’s not where they wear their wares. "

Remember, English is a “Mutt” language, taking elements from Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and a bunch of other languages as well. That’s why it’s a nightmare…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk

This is the most fun stream of comments I have read here on GoComics.

Need a laugh? Look at the ads on Craigslist! How can something be “for sell”, especially a "chester drawers?

Wowwie, wow, wow!

Even corrections need correcting.

Followed a car with a sign in the back window that read (all caps), “THEY WHO DRIVE WHILE THERE DRUNK SHOULD HAVE THERE COFFIN IN THERE TRUNK.”

Does everyone use a power mower to mow their lawn? And why do those two words have a different O sound….how about Poe-er Moe-er or Paw-er Maw-er?

But autocorrect does not correct this which is why publishers need to go back to having human editors

The word “enjoy” originally meant to give joy to someone.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

And these comments are totally unique.

Replace autocorrect with Grammarly.com (FREE).

Now you’ve done it, Wiley! The new world record of the number of comments on a single panel cartoon!

As my mother would have said, "Theese casn’t tell I how to speak, snow. Probably not spelled / spelt correctly but there doesn’t seem to be a local dialect dictionary built into Firefox.

This must be Grandma Fogarty. She’s where Mignon gets it from.

If you want “fun” with spelling, look up “Kaos in ce klasrum”. It was originally in a Reader’s Digest book for young readers, dated 1961. I remember reading it when it first came out.

@ Wiley: Yes. many comments. And so far, none of about things we should never dicuss in order to keep the peace.

As a child I wore Forrest Gump"s braces mounted to the pug-ugly Buster Brown shoes so I spent a lot of time at the library where Muriel always had the right answer for me when needed. I loved her way more than I do SIRI. I hope she knows how many of us still appreciate how she helped us along the way to loving an education.

My favorite annoyance substituting more for ‘er’. More happy instead of happier, more proud – prouder, etc. The worst one – more better. Let me get out of here while I’m still rational.

Notice too, the correct usage of cattapostrophes. At the beginning and end of her property line.

“then” and “than”…there is a difference.

I know I’m late, but compliment vs complement should also be considered.

A few times I have seen someone write Walla when they mean Voila.

If you type, “Oh, c’mon,” autocorrect insists on a b instead of an n and you have to argue with it to write this sentence. Why, I have no idea.