Comments on: Quiet or Quite?

By: wordsnob

wordsnob — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:56:53 +0000

oh ,no, have a friend to regularly uses “quite” when he means “quiet”.. drives me nuts…and the same person sent an email saying ” should of joined us for lunch” …hmmmm…

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:54:10 +0000

I see this typo very often! Mostly when people are trying to say “quiet”…they type “quite”. I am surprised at how often this happens.
Another very common “mistake” is the confusion on the part of people when it comes to using “to” and “too” and “there” , “their” and “they’re”. Many, many people do not know the proper use of and/or spellings of these words. It is amazing.

By: Zach Everson

Zach Everson — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:52:29 +0000

“Quite” should be avoided as it rarely adds meaning.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:29:17 +0000

Tom, if the confusion happened on a printed book, I think it could very easily happen around the Internet, don’t you think ?

By: Maeve

Maeve — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:50:57 +0000

Yes, it was a typo, but there it was, in a printed book.
Someone mixed them up.