I am reading a tome. It is The New Sylva by Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet. It's a tome worth looking at if only for Simblet's wonderful drawings.
I got to page 24 and then growled. Not one but two mistakes on the same page which, in such an erudite book, should not occur I feel!
Mistake the first: affect is used where it should be effect.
Mistake the second: a plural is used where it should be a singular. It is a common mistake, these days, for people to use the plural of fungus (i.e. fungi) where they should use the singular. No-one talks about a wildflowers or trees guide; they talk about a wildflower guide or a tree guide. Why not fungus guide, then?
Snarl.
Pedantry aside, it's a lovely book.
I can't believe my car insurance has risen by that much!
They don't really care do they