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I too get a tad annoyed with the apostrophes for things that are plural rather than possessive (my favorite picture's).

But in spoken language, an annoyance that I hear all the time in my job as a public librarian in a not so great part of my county is "axed" for asked, and "libarry" (more like lahBARry) for library.

But then again who am I to talk? In my quirkiness I tend to say "asted" instead of "asked" as I have trouble with that "sk" combination. But I AM aware of it and try to slow down when faced with that particular word.

As for complement/compliment - according to my dictionary here in my lap, the latter means an expression of praise, while the former means something that completes, or makes up the whole. So actually they are two different words with different meanings (hey I'm a librarian!).