>"Comprising" being mistaken for "composing" and used in the in a similar way.
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>"The team comprises of eleven men" rather than "The team is composed of eleven men" or "The team comprises eleven men"
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>I've even heard the infallible and omniscient Anne (Weakest Link) Robinson use it thus.
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>THIS IS MY PET HATE:
>The use of apostrophes for plurals and, now I'm seeing more and more, third person singular verbs.
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>"Tea's and coffees served all day" (and note it's not consistant. Why should "Tea" have it but not "coffee"?)
>"he like's what he sees" (again - inconsistant)
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>Terry

How about the most universally misused word on the internet (number 1 for the last 20 years, I'd say, if you include the days of the BBS) - Loose to mean Lose. My favourite with this is being insulted by an illiterate who calls you a looser. How can you not laugh?