a little Easter egg for your basket

Funny, Dagnee. I hereby find myself guilty of at least three infractions. I won't say which ones, however.

~Tom

I defiantly say that I will definitely lay to rest the lie that I was laying down by your side because you're my friend. While I was taking a nap after bringing up how to use these words properly.

Okay that was the best I could with all that Janet brought up that people will use wrong in a sentence.  - I do feel word check is partly to blame for some of these bad word choice incidences, because if the words spelled correctly it doesn't look to see if the word doesn't work in the sentence you wrote. Like diner versus dinner etc.

Grrrr....sometimes I write too fast for my own good so I mistype the words I meant to type.

Speaking of "restaurant," the owner of such an establishment should be a restaurateur, not a restauranteur to be grammatically correct from the French, though this seems to be going by the wayside (like alright for all right), as my Merriam-Webster also lists restauranteur as acceptable. I'm old school, so I also don't like splitting infinitives. Instead of striving "to boldly go where no one has gone before," I would rather endeavor to go steadily, and correctly, to the place where  an infinitive is kept together and thus prevent an editor from getting heartburn. Sorry, Trekkies.

Spell check isn't the only thing that helped me spell better. I lurked in a literary chat room for ten years where the median IQ was 120 and those people would never let you live down a spelling mistake or let you blame it on a typographical error. They also jumped on word misuse. You haven't experienced true shame until you've been laughed at by 50 people, all at once and in type. There's no spell check in chat rooms, so I found if I typed the word I couldn't spell in the search engine on my tool bar, a drop down menu would appear with the correct spelling. It also worked great for looking up the precise meaning of words I was uncertain about. It was time consuming, but I didn't get laughed at. Being in a chat room also helped me to edit my writing, if you typed more than three lines, no one read the post. When Twitter came along I was ready. I learned to condense my ideas down to a sentence or two, taking out useless words.

As for English, I am still ignorant, I know more about the splitting of an atom than I do an infinitive and wouldn't know a dangling participle if it bit me on the ass.