There is one I feel is even worse and seems to be becoming accepted. I speak, of course, of exact same. I hear even many who should know better use it. It is a redundancy and all redundancies drive me nuts. There are many other common examples but that one bothers me the most.
I am guilty of this one and you recently corrected me. I am perfectly OK with being corrected in my English, even grateful since it is not my first language, in fact my third.
What has been bothering me though, is the following:
I had said something like "they used the exact same procedure" (just as an example) and you corrected me.
I have seen "almost the same", "nearly the same"etc., so the question that arises is if I had used "they used exactly THE same procedue", would it have then been correct?
It differentiates from both "almost the same" and "nearly the same".
Now, here's one I often see which you too are guilty of:
In a very recent thread you said "unless that point of view can EFFECT me and yours does not EFFECT me one way or the other since you are not part of the leadership here" (the CAPS are mine)
Surely you need to use "affect" which is a verb instead of "effect" which is a noun?
