10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

Some interesting linguistic stuff on all that:
"axe" instead of "ask" is something that was a feature of certain English dialects up to 18th century or so.
It was brought into Southern states of America and in particular with the spread of black populations remains both a part of Southern dialects and African American dialects (and thus onto MTV through hip-hop culture).

Interestingly it has happened with other letters of the alphabet too and now forms part of the English language.

German: English:
Ross Ors (horse)
durch through
("th" from old German became "d" in modern German, "gh" becomes hard in German and silent in English)
 
Relax — Europe has come to the rescue... ;)

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard “c” will be replaced with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters and komputers kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with the “f”. This will make words like ‘fotograf’ 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”’s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl will be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z”, and “w” with “v”. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou”, and similiar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinasyon of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
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one of the bbc commentators on the game today between engerland and portugal claimed that peter crouch was an omen. crouch is a lot of things. but a omen?
 
An Americanism which sounds like a mistake to me is the phrase "a couple times". Poor old "of" has obviously been made redundant.
 
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