Most common TT spelling mistakes

but most sights are built on construction sites, aren't they?

No. A beach, a forest, a waterfall, or a sunset are "sights" but they are not constructed on sites.

Good point :-).

Aww...but most sights are built on construction sites, aren't they? Doesn't that, in a way, make them sites as well (although not in a tourist's point of view)? For my part, I definately think so.

mmm there are very few sights on construction site- as , in my mind (as well as in Google's) a constructon site looks like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=construction+site&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&prmd=imvnslb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=ONavT7qtOsPQhAeBzbGECQ&ved=0CIUBELAE&biw=1220&bih=665
Unless you're interested in cranes, a construction site is not a sight.

The Louvre is a sight but the site of the Louvre is the land on which the palace was built- which is can't be seen as the building is in the way... if one were to raise the Louvre (god forbid!) the land would again be visible and could be referred to as the former site of the Louvre...still confused, Ansh? ;-)

I don't know, I think I would define "site" rather more broadly, not just as somewhere where nothing has yet been built or something is in the course of being built.

Of course, like campsites, websites, archeological sites...

My ophthalmologist calls his clinic EyeSite.

Raise the Louvre or raze the Louvre?

Site officiel du musée du Louvre

#28,
my point applies to native English speakers as well. Not everyone has enjoyed a 'top class' education; sometimes people type in a hurry; hardly ever does it harm the meaning of a post.
So, I repeat, chill out. It really doesn't matter (whether 'you' 'really' 'care' or not).

Put it another way.

Get a life.

Oh, and make sure you never, ever, make a speeling mistake yourselves...

Coming back to the word "site" or "sight" and having pondered over the matter for awhile, without wanting to sound like I am pandering to those of you who have different views, I realize that it should probably be "tourist sight", even though you see "tourist site" written so often on the internet. It's true, the Oxford dictionary states that :

-site: • a place where a particular event or activity is occurring or has occurred : the site of the Battle of Antietam | materials for repairs are always on site.

-sight(s): • places of interest to tourists and visitors in a city, town, or other place : she offered to show me the sights.

:)

Raise the Louvre or raze the Louvre?

would you believe me if i said i was being tongue-in-cheek? [giggles nervously]