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Topic: What's in your newspaper today?
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 I play on four sites, but only one other has a forum. The misspelled words are mostly by the Brits. The posters who have English as a second language can be excused, but they are often better spellers. The phrase, "I feel bad" is often stated, "I feel badly". And the word "lay" is the one most incorrectly used, even in our newspapers.
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| ...seems to be one of the more common errors in English, at least American English... |
Americans use it all the time. We British never use it.
Illiteracy on the Internet is largely thanks to the Americans who pervade it. A generation of people across the globe are tending to follow this influence.
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We don't all use it. For example, I don't. 
I'm sure you Brits have your own common grammatical and/or orthographic errors.
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| The phrase, "I feel bad" is often stated, "I feel badly". And the word "lay" is the one most incorrectly used, even in our newspapers. |
You don't provide the usage or any contexts. There is nothing wrong to see in your examples.
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If "I feel bad" is okay, then "I feel badly" should not be. "Bad" here is a predicate adjective, not an adverb, so "badly" is incorrect, although perhaps allowed in British colloquial usage. Standing among basketball players, I could easily say "I feel short", but "shortly"? Speaking of basketball, "I feel badly" taken literally would be grammatically similar to "I shoot badly", since "badly" is an adverb describing my shooting ability in the second, and an adverb describing my ability to feel in the first. Not likely to be what was intended.
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