OK, as a 5th grade teacher who is adamant about teaching correct grammar, here's what I found (in order of appearance):

country's
members
concedes
Md should be Maryland
friends
t-shirt
Sevice?" (question mark inside quotation marks)
their
mistakes
their

I, too, love what you're doing. It drives me crazy to see road signs or emails with poor grammar. Signed, someone who always answers "I'm well" to the question, "How are you?" and says "Drive safely" rather than "Drive safe!" when saying goodbye to guests!

I love what you are doing. When my husband and I travel, we take pictures of misspellings on signs. Some of my favorites: steack on a sign at a Santa Barbara restaurant; Dream Fantasies' also in Santa Monica; Veteran's Memorial in Glenwood Springs (too bad only one vet is honored); womens room in a Denver bowling alley; plus innumerable others, especially insulting our apostrophe. Proud to say that I caught almost all, but not all, the errors in your column. I often wish I had some white out with me when I travel. There's a job out there for those of us who consider ourselves the grammar police.
barb--secondary English teacher in Denver.

This was a great artical!

I think its great, what Herson is doing. I can understand that typo's ocur, but I find so many hear on PilotOnline, I really have to wonder whose doing the proof-reading (or rather, whose not).

I found a couple more I believe is wrong, otherwise I didnt find any errors other then the one's listed by other readers.

Everything and everyone is a target. (Except for cities with high percentages of people for whom English is a second language. That would be unfair, Herson conceeds.)

It should read: Everything and everyone is a target except for cities with high percentages of people for who English is a second language. That would be unfair, Herson concedes.

Well, at least I think it should be who, not whom. I'd probably just rephrase the sentence

My pet-peeves include misuse of their and there, your and you're, its and it's, typos and typo's and who's and whose.

Here are the errors I found:

Title: "Grammer" should read "grammar"
Paragraph 3 - "sight" should be "site" if you're talking about a location
Para. 7 - "Its" should be "It's"
Para. 8 - "countries" should be "country's"
Para. 8 - "member's" should be "members"
Para. 8 - "with it" should be "with other members"
Para. 10 - "conceeds" should be "concedes"
Para. 15 - "friends'" should be "friends"
Para; 16 - "1 pound of cookies" should be in quotation marks or italicized
Para. 20 - "they're" should be "their"
Para. 23 - "misteaks" should be "mistakes"
Para. 27 - should read "Billboards, posterboards for restaurants, and roadside tourism signs ..."
Para. 29 - "there trip" should read "their trip"

This was a lot of fund! :) :) Thanks!

Great article, thank you! I saw two errors (I believe) regarding quotation marks. The first was in this sentence: And that T-shirt in Vegas that read "Hookers Limo Service"? The end quotation mark should follow the question mark. In the sentence: Herson and Deck carry an eradication kit with them ready to add a "t" or an "s,' The quotation mark after the "s" should be a double vs. a single quotation mark and should precede the comma.

My pet peeve is the word "irregardless." It gets used a lot and means the opposite of what the person is trying to say.

Someone else shares my obsession!! I even find them in best sellers! The newspaper is notorious for boo boos too! Makes me nuts! I even saw Christ misspelled on a church sign this Easter. Yikes! Even before I realized Mike was intentionally making errors in his article, I had whipped out my pink pen and was going to blast him! I hope I caught them all. If not, I’ll be humiliated!! I’m sure come Monday I’ll be groaning because I missed a few: Here they are:

Grammer (grammar); sight (site); Its (It’s); countries (country’s); member’s (members); conceeds (concedes); typose (typos); friends’ (friends); they’re (their); misteaks (mistakes); there (their).

Ahh—that was great! I feel better now!

Add to those already posted: "conceeds" (should be "concedes") and "sight" (in this usage, should be "site" -- "sped to the site") Many, many people get sight/site wrong all the time -- even major magazines and newspapers!
Fun column, but really, this English-speaking country needs an army of grammar police. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation have become national embarrassments, even in the school system and among some of our best writers.

Hi Mike, I have long been a closet proof reader, so this was fun! I found the following errors, in addition to a glaring overuse of dashes where there should be commas:
front page:
(in the heading) grammer (grammar)
Its part vacation (It's)
the countries grammar (country's)
before other member's join (members)
page 6:
in hostels or with friends' (friends)
or camping at night; (at night,)
it should have read "Hookers... (Hooker's)
They work they're magic. (their)
pick out misteaks (mistakes)
The chalk on the "cameras" (why not put "cameras" on the 1st line of the paragraph?)
posterboards for restaurants, roadside... (restaurants and roadside...)
now there trip (their trip)

I loved your column. Among the mistakes--"grammer," "its," "countries,'
"member's," "friends'" "they're," "misteaks," "there" One of my biggest pet peeves is "its" and "it's." Many people want to use it's to show ownership. Drives me insane.