Incorrect word usage

What is a word you feel that too many people use?

I’m not sure how I should be interpreting this prompt, and by that I mean “what was the original intention”.

So, I’m taking a slightly different approach. What is a word that too many people use incorrectly because they don’t understand how to proofread for spelling.

From a written word perspective, when people type “defiantly” but context clues always point to them meaning to use “definitely”, that drives me nuts.

When people are actually talking and they say “condiluted” (which isn’t even a word!) and they mean “convoluted”, my brain twitches a little. I hate it.

Maybe that’s just a me thing, and I know that the English language is tough, but I’m usually speaking/working with educated and well-read individuals who should be able to make the correct distinctions between these words.

I probably could have used this as an answer to an older prompt about pet peeves, but I don’t actually encounter these instances of improper English all too often, and I know that they happen to many other people, so I feel like it properly applies to today’s prompt.

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