10/15/9) some links from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_disputed_usage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputed_English_grammar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solecism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commonly_misused_English_language_phrases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_North_American (my dialect)
3/1/5) I recall my grade school teachers saying that "haven't" is correct for "ain't got no." Sounds poetic to me, and to this day, I still say that there's nothing wrong with using "don't have."
2/1/5) Discreet or discrete (prudent or separate)
How time flies!!! No new info to the site in over a year.
3/29)A swamp is a flooded woodland and a marsh is a flooded grassland
3/26) Raise or rise? A lot like "lay and lie." Use raise with direct objects.
Since I've been writing on this topic, I'm amazed how often I hear something that seems to be appropriate for this Web site. If I don't carry a notepad with me all the times, I fear I may forget more examples than I post.
"Great-Uncle" should be "granduncle"
compare: parent, grandparent, and great-grand-parent
...with: uncle ..granduncle ......great-grand-uncle
Your cousin's child is your "cousin once removed." Your child and your cousin's child are second cousins to each other.
"Gyro" does not begin with the "g" sound (the word comes from the Greek "gyros" meaning "to turn" as in meat on a spit). Some say it should be pronounced "Yiro," but the Greek "g" is pronounced further back in the throat like the German "ch" in "Bach."
Introduction updated 12/6/8