10 Speaking and Writing Errors That Erode Your Credibility

Want people to perceive you as intelligent and well educated? Don’t get caught using these improper expressions.

Thanks to Craig Cardimon for finding this one. I agree with all of these, especially the last three which are the most common mistakes, EXCEPT for #5. It IS pronounced "for-tay" because it’s for the Italian word that means strong or strength. It’s used in music all the time! So, it’s being prounounced correctly in Italian when it’s said as "for-tay". It’s similar to the use of French word, passé (pronounced pass-ay). The problem that word is that accent marks on the final "e" of each word is often not used since American/English QWERTY keyboards don’t have that letter readily available. .

So guess what, author? Your co-worker was WRONG. I even looked it up to be sure. It’s right in Bing Translator and the dictionary, for pity’s sake. Maybe next time you can look it up, too.

–techcommgeekmom

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