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Pretty sure if you Googled "their" and "they're" or "its" and "It's" and "its'" you'd find that wrong usages run neck and nick with correct usages. I don't think vox populi is necessarily the best test on this.

At what point does an "incorrect" usage become so engrained into the popular consciousness that it becomes right?  Because if you go to the dictionary.com definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gel?s=t) of "gel", you get:

gel
noun
1. Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
2. Theater, gelatin (def 5).
3. Biochemistry. a semirigid polymer, as agarose, starch, cellulose acetate, or polyacrylamide, cast into slabs or cylinders for the electrophoretic separation of proteins and nucleic acids.
verb (used without object), gelled, gelling.
4. to form or become a gel.
5. jell (def 2).

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(If you look at definition 2 under "jell", you get: 2. to become clear, substantial, or definite; crystallize: "The plan began to jell once we all met to discuss it.")

BC

[BostonCard]

Pretty sure if you Googled "their" and "they're" or "its" and "It's" and "its'" you'd find that wrong usages run neck and nick with correct usages. I don't think vox populi is necessarily the best test on this.

At what point does an "incorrect" usage become so engrained into the popular consciousness that it becomes right?  Because if you go to the dictionary.com definition (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gel?s=t) of "gel", you get:

gel
noun
1. Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
2. Theater, gelatin (def 5).
3. Biochemistry. a semirigid polymer, as agarose, starch, cellulose acetate, or polyacrylamide, cast into slabs or cylinders for the electrophoretic separation of proteins and nucleic acids.
verb (used without object), gelled, gelling.
4. to form or become a gel.
5. jell (def 2).

emphasis mine

(If you look at definition 2 under "jell", you get: 2. to become clear, substantial, or definite; crystallize: "The plan began to jell once we all met to discuss it.")

BC