Ten Most Common Errors Made by Writers: #0

From the Editor’s Eye
The 10 Most Common Errors Made by Writers
(And How to Fix Them)

The eleventh of a ten-part series.

#0. Extra: (A Few of) My Language Pet Peeves: Word Contortion, Distortion & Deformation (Hoping for Reformation)

Some misused and abused words, terms, and phrases that bug the crap out of me ...

mall — a public area often set with shade trees and designed as a promenade or as a pedestrian walk (not a shopping center).

Example: the National Mall in Washington, DC, and th...