Rundown on errors in English

[Lookin^Up]

Here's an interesting site I just found:

http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors

It covers almost everything, including a few things I'd never thought about before. One pet peeve of mine that's missing (perhaps it's "old school" by now) is that people interchange "distrust" and "mistrust". I'd always thought of "distrust" as the noun and "mistrust" as the verb for the same meanng.

[paulchernoch]

I checked out dictionary.com. Nothing in the several dictionaries they cite shows any difference in shade of meaning or usage with regard to mistrust or distrust. What a shame. There ought to be a word for trusting in something untrustworthy or undeserving of trust. I would have thought mistrust was a contraction of "misplaced trust".

- Paul

[Phy]

The interface could benefit from some basic usability tools, like putting things in drop-down boxes or something. As it was, it was total sensory overload for me.

[cpbookworm]

Site may be useful. I put it in my favorites.

[Lookin^Up]

The interface could benefit from some basic usability tools, like putting things in drop-down boxes or something. As it was, it was total sensory overload for me.
Yes, I was surprised that they put it all on one screen. It is probably best studied in pieces, anyway.