> -  The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
> same goes for to lie -> lying.

There's a native English guy who *teaches* English to a class here (a friend 
of mine goes to it) and he writes "tryed"!  I can understand a non-native 
making that mistake when learning English, but there's no excuse for a 
native to do that, and especially not if he is teaching English.

> - I think some people write "they're" instead of "there" on purpose, just
> to annoy people.

I do it sometimes purely because I'm typing too fast and just write out the 
sounds that are going around in my head! Quite often I put things like "my" 
instead of "by" because I'm just not concentrating (it's not like I don't 
know the difference between "my" and "by"!).

> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
> are actually saying "I know something".

I think a lot of people do actually realise that *technically* it means the 
opposite of common understanding, but if you point it out to them you'll be 
labelled as a geeky nitpicker :-)

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