Um, I didn’t write this!

This is a comment from this story in the Sacramento Bee (I copied and pasted this directly from the article – the numerous errors are not mine):
Here we go I am a caltrans worker I knew this was comming , furloughs and layoffs . and if you didnt you must be smoking something . I [...]

Pet peeve – confusing “advice” and “advise.”

It’s amazing how many people mistakenly use “advice” instead of “advise” (and vice versa.)

Don’t people know the difference between “loose” and “lose”?

Why do people write “loose” instead of “lose”? The words do not even have the same pronounciation, so they don’t even have the same excuse that they have with “to” and “too” or “their” and “they’re.”
Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve seen anybody write “lose” when he or she meant [...]