Stolen from a FB post (and grammar/word usage corrected, etc.):
I’m not completely sure WTF the creator of the graphic was thinking, but it originally read, “EVERYDAY” for “EVERY DAY”. “Everyday” is an adjective meaning “common, ordinary, normal”. “Every day” means “each day”–the meaning the originator probably intended, based on the context. Parts of speech do make a difference, and when similar words or phrases are noted differently, it’s usually FOR A GOOD REASON! Unfortunately, to subliterates–those who have simply not read and understood GOOD WRITING (instead of misread and misunderstood much of the “crap English” most commonly used nowadays), and a lot of it–are prone to these kinds of commonplace, quotidian, EVERYDAY mistakes of usage, which I see EVERY DAY.
I lay this off on several things, all of which have combined to create subliterate readers and writers:
- bad schooling
- far, far too much crappy writing by people stealing money for writing crap professionally
- lazy people who cooperate with the two above factors to make themselves subliterate.
See also :
- Backseat/Back seat
- Backyard/Back yard
- Accept/Except
- Affect/Effect (mildly interesting because each of them can be a noun or a verb)
- Borrow/Lend/Loan
- Bring/Take
- etc.
And then there’s the whole apostrophe mess. *sigh* It’s simple, but when someone adds an apostrophe where its placement is incorrect (or omits it when it’s needed), it simply shows they’re not really literate in English. See above for reasons. *sigh*