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#1 2008-03-15 09:29:23

nilep
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Registered: 2007-03-21
Posts: 291

Professionally unfortunate misspelling

The spelling of grammar as <grammer> is dead common. It is mentioned in the forum by a contributor who seems to assume that the <-er> form is correct.
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1622
There are 9,860 raw Google hits for “grammer rules” (versus 398,000 for “grammar rules”). Therefore, any particular instance of the misspelling might be utterly uninteresting.

Except that this one appeared in LINGUIST, the email list for linguists, and announces an international grammar conference.

19.879 Confs: General Linguistics/Belgium
From: [supressed]
Subject: Between Discourse and Grammer

The word is spelled <grammar> throughout the actual body of the email, so I’m unsure if it was the email writer or the list editor who “incorrected” it.

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