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I'm first to admit that I'm far from being an officer with the Grammar Police.  But I've been in school enough to know what's right and what's wrong. I also know what is a real word and what is a non-word.  Here's my favorite non-words that I hear repeatedly at work. For confusing words,  I've even used the word in a sentence so you get the right context.

1. simular  - - "These two items are simular in size."

2. nucular - -  (borrowed from George W. Bush) "Do you think the north Koreans really have all of those nucular weapons?"

3. holt  - - "I got holt of some NASCAR tickets."

4. dispensation - - This has nothing to do with asking for forgiveness from the Catholic church.  This is a word native to ZCO. There's a term we use in our returned goods department called "disposition".  Simply put, when an item is returned here, it's inspected, and the item's disposition is entered into the computer - meaning, what was wrong with it. One of the IT bigwigs uses "dispensation" instead of "disposition" and now others use it, too. It drives me crazy.

5. orientated - - I'm not real sure what this person was trying to convey. "I got the part orientated on the table."

6. in my personal opinion - - the last time I checked, "my" is as personal as you can get. 

7. Gatlinsburg - - "We're going to rent a cabin at Gatlinsburg."

8. Illinoiz - - "They sure get a lot of snow up in Illinoiz."

9. copastetic - - I think they mean "copasetic".  "Everything is just copastetic."

10. angioplastic - - "My mother-in-law had a heart attack and now they have to do angioplastic."

11. itch - - "This bug bite is driving me crazy.  I've got to itch my leg."