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The following "master list" of errors originally came from a (still-incomplete) [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/guide/fwg.txt document of advice for amateur writers] which [[Troper]]-and-paid-author [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] has been composing on and off since early 2007. (At some point in 2012, Looney Toons spun off the error list into [http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/guide/fwg-misused-words.txt its own document], but feel free to check out the guide anyway.)
While it is in no way definitive or exhaustive<ref>We're never going to run out of errors for people to make.</ref>, it ''is'' rather extensive and ever-so-faintly snarky in places. It is more-or-less organized in alphabetical order by the erroneous word or phrase, although in some cases two or more terms may turn out to be interchangeably misused for each other, in which case the "key" entry is pretty much arbitrarily selected.
Additional examples are always welcome, and will probably be stolen for [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]]' master copy. New entries should, of course, be inserted into the list alphabetically by the erroneous word. If both/all the words are mutually misused for each other, pick your favorite to alphabetize by -- but make sure that someone else didn't pick the other one to alphabetize it under already.
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