Common mistakes in Englilsh

One, I see often is desert and dessert. Dessert is a tasty treat that you eat after a male. Desert is a dry, arid land that is not tasty in any way. Those two getting mixed up annoy me for some reason. Also, persons is another one. Person is one. People is many. Using persons is just going to cause my blood pressure to boil. I know its constantly used but its constantly wrong.

hi daliaj, The common mistakes in English do creep up mostly by those people whose first language is not english and when they translate their language in to English they make mistake because like people may be singluar and plural in English it is not in their language and they would add s because their mind tells them to add s to make it plural.. my best friend would always say Hairs instead of hair and like someone said Dog is male but people use it for females too because the female dog real name means something else in slang..

hmm.. i like this.. one word i often hear is 'sales" for "sale" ex.. there is an ongoing sales somewhere.

Oh i see. It's really interesting and in fact it's a common mistake in English.

Regarding the "fish vs fishes" A group of fish of the same species are called 'fish'. Two or more species of fish are called 'fishes'. For example, a group of Salmon swimming together can be called a school of fish. But if one Goldfish starts swimming with the Salmon, they are called fishes. Stuff vs stuffs Stuff is already plural. So there's no need to add an 's' on it.