>>"Comprising" being mistaken for "composing" and used in the in a similar way.
>>e.g.
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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.
>>e.g.
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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
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>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?

Most misused? Not even close. The winner is the use of "it's" instead of "its" for the possessive e.g when talking about an object, its properties and methods. "It's" is simply a contraction, meaning "it is", or sometimes "it has".

This error is seen so frequently, even in copy by large companies in big advertising campaigns that I think the language is changing. In a way, it's logical - Jack's, Jill's, it's, ...