Breathe / Breath

[Silke]

Something that irks me no end is when a writer (and even editors!) gets those wrong.

I breathe a breath.
Not: I BREATH.

I've seen it so many times in books, it makes me want to scream.

Pet peeve. :)

Silke

[Al B]

Yup, I've spotted that quite often, usually when someone writes something like: I wouldn't hold your breathe waiting for that to happen.

It's a very bad error, because it shows that someone has not read through what they have written out loud, which is a very basic, not to mention well known technique in proof-reading.

Al

[DanielScocco]

Good one, we should cover it on the blog as well.