[Closed] Common misspellings and grammatical errors on social media.

I figure of no-one tells them

Ah - stealth edit, eh?

The one that I really don't get is brought instead of bought.

You're adding an extra letter, clearly making a different word with a different meaning - it would be easier to get it right by accident surely?

secondary school [s]english[/s] [b]English[/b] lessons

 

I don't see a problem with [url= http://www.chester-drawers.co.uk/?p=969 ]Chester drawers[/url] myself.
My personnel beef is not using captals appropriately.

Thanks Scotroutes, I had scoured the post for misspellings so touche. But, in my defense that was accidental (the i is next to the o) not because I don't know the correct spelling.

chester draws

😀 Get yersell on Barrow Sell and Seek. Every other post is someone selling a chester draws.

defense

[s]touche[/s] touché

This is something which defiantly gets on my tits lol

lol. defense Vs defence? USA Vs English isn't it. Since we generally allow the use of a z in place of an s in lots of words like capitalization I'll allow myself that one.

Z in capitalization is correct. S is the abhorrent newcomer.

It's a common misconception that use of z is an Americanisation. 😉

lol. defense Vs defence? USA Vs English isn't it. Since we generally allow the use of a z in place of an s in lots of words like capitalization I'll allow myself that one.

Thank you for raising the issue jekkyl.

The people who don't know the difference between:-

There, their and they're.

Lose and loose seems to be increasingly common now.

People who use the word prolly when they mean probably. Where the hell does that come from?

Americans who say "my bad" and even worse Brits who have picked that up.

Americans using aluminum when they mean aluminium. They don't say sodum, calcum or uranum so why pick on just one element?

Nails on a blackboard....

Was at a friends mums funeral service yesterday which was in a Roman Catholic chapel.

Spoke to another friend after the funeral who had never attended an RC service before and asked them what they thought.

"I quite liked the bit with the incest" came the the reply.....

Aluminum is the original.

Was at a friends mums funeral service yesterday which was in a Roman Catholic chapel.

Spoke to another friend after the funeral who had never attended an RC service before and asked them what they thought.

"I quite liked the bit with the incest" came the the reply.....

The one that I really don't get is brought instead of bought.

This one REALLY annoys me. Really, really annoys me.

I'm not sure if its intentional (if so, why the heck?) or whether there just seems to have been a massive influx of illiterate morons over the last few years because its definitely a new'ish thing.

Do you not read the big papers ? England came near the bottom of the list of OECD countries in basic literacy and numeracy.

I think it is important to get it right in some contexts, but not so much in others. CV or job application ? Perfection. Facebook post ? WTF cares.

In any case, we aren't allowed to tattoo STOOPID on people's foreheads or make them wear a badge, so poor literacy can be useful.

Lose and loose seems to be increasingly common now.

It is a bit perverse to have "lose" with a long vowel sound and "loose" with a short one though.

If I'm posting on social media in a personal capacity then I couldn't really give a shit about my spelling and grammar. If it was my CV or some important document then maybe I'd actually pay some attention to it...

Wotchu onnabart ?

I get them wrong because of my dyslexia. I know the difference but sometimes when I'm writing I'll use the wrong one.

Aluminum is the original.

Only because Sir Humphry Davy announced the discovery on the internet using an iphone and then realised his mistake!

Aluminum is the original.

"Aluminium" is the standard spelling. As is "sulfur".

Not a mis-spelling but I hate the use of the verb "run" instead of "have" as in "I run XTR on my bike..."

It makes the bike sound like a corporation or a latop.

I think the OP would of been improved by adding "i.e." and then listing some examples.

Defense indeed! That's what I'm not sitting on.

Tack and tact getz my goad.

Someone I know on FB often posts about what her darling "dorta" is up to.

*twitch*

The "Spotted [insert town name]" groups are often the funniest. Generally a bunch of uneducated morons moaning about anything and everything. The best stuff is when they start ranting about a slutty neighbour or ex-boyfriend/girlfriend. The more raving, the worse the spelling.

U Ok Hun?

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"Sickth" in speech anyone? It's even infiltration Auntie Beeb.

I defiantly agree with this.

Can we do nouns as verbs ?? Can we ?? Please ??

Or "verbizing" as the Americans call it, with zero irony.

Here, here.

Where? There, under the stair..

A little mouse with clogs on...

Well I dispair..

I cannot abide abit, alot, alittle and aswell. Surely that means the last one is actually a swell rather than as well?

loose/lose

your/you're

their/there/they're

specific/pacific/

specifically/pacifically

moot/mute

ur bik is saracen

Good grammar, the difference between knowing your sh*t and knowing you're sh*t

Mister P - Member

alot

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A small part of me brakes every time someone has an issue with their bike breaks.

Could of, would of, should of. I think you mean have, as in "I should have listened more at school".

Is it time for this thread again? That's come around quickly

I know, but the dog one was started yesterday.
Should be a "what car should I buy" thread along soon...

Or a "what tire" thread... 🙄

Honestly[b],[/b] if I see one more post from people who want a bit of advise on how to seel there chester draws or there mounting bike I’ll go crazy. Perhaps there looking for some advise on how to loose weight because there too fat. I no your not a moron for spelling things the wrong way constantly but it does make you look lik one.

I think they should dedicate a term of secondary school [b]E[/b]nglish lessons to[s]wards[/s] [s]‘[/s]common misspellings that make you look like a moron and the correct way to spell them.[s]’[/s] Why is it so hard for some people?

I find myself having to bite my tongue ([s]bite my fingers?[/s] or maybe my fingers) from correcting people all the time as it makes you look like a grammar [b]N[/b]azi[b].[/b] No-one likes being corrected but I figure if no-one tells them [b]then[/b]they’ll continue [s]making[/s] to make the same mistake for years. What to do though when it’s your best mate or manager at work?[s] Anyway, as you were.[/s]

B-

Ha Lolz eye toteally sea were youz are coming Frm eye get so frustrated at they,re bad Spelling and gramor!! Mabe they shood goto the Shops and and get a dictionary brought even worze is when People dont put commaz or fullstops to brake up a sentince this makes it Realy hard to reed and the hole lot just Looks like alot off rubbish eye meen how Hard is it too tipe the wordz in to googlle if ewe are unschure how too spell them corectily Eye realy hate when People spel break to xplain the Tipe off brake on they,re mounting bike any way eye Best get of the Internet and get Bak to work.

Seriously hard work all that, I do really detest the phrase "I brought" to indicate they have purchased something. Perhaps it's a regional thing?

Tires is another one that gets my goat, this ain't the good ole USA cowboy! I also want to throttle anybody who describes "hydrolic" as the means to powering their brakes, it's hydraulic for Christ sake.

Anyway back to things that matter.

I blame Mick Jagger.

If he can't get no satisfaction then surely he must take some satisfaction from that?

B minus! I'll take that, thanks Mr Mole. 😀

I do smile when I see 'mounting bike' because you do mount a bike, as it were, so you can at least follow their line of logic. There's no excuse for chester draws though.

continue [s]making[/s] to make

Stationary **Sigh**

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From Government Website
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There's no excuse for chester draws though.

LOL.... Did you actually laugh out loud...?????

Lol indeed

MTB-Idle - Member
loose/lose

Good grammar, the difference between knowing your sh*t and knowing you're sh*t

Shouldn't that have ended with a full stop?

Not even if brought my bedroom furniture in the county town of Cheshire?

"shirley" when they mean "surely"

samunkim - Member

Stationary **Sigh**

I'm going to offer an amnesty for stationary/stationery, on account of, I do it myself. I have a fairly good sense of the shape and spelling and use of words, always have, but this one beats me often. So I figure, if it even defeats a linguistic genius like wot I obz are, then no wonder it defies normal people.

If I hadent of been on FB I wouldent know of half of what goes on in this world its discusting. Feminsist and Athiest are retarted.

I'm going to offer an amnesty for stationary/stationery, on account of, I do it myself. I have a usually fairly good sense of the shape and spelling and use of words, always have, but this one beats me often. So I figure, if it even defeats a linguistic genius like wot I obz are, then no wonder it defies normal people.

There's an e in envelope is how I was taught to remember.

LOL.... Did you actually laugh out loud...?????

I think you've missed the point.

retarted

Platinium

Using 'disconnect' instead of 'disconnection' annoys me. To illustrate it's stooopidness try using the word 'connect' in the same way.

"I was on the phone to my solicitor when the connect failed"

Errr..nope.

Mis-spellings I can cope with, it's usually possible to work out what's meant. Lack of punctuation is worse - for example:

Cleaning up peoples mind not throwing or dumping stuff bins exist no excuse

A recent post on a FB page I manage.

busydog - Member
"shirley" when they mean "surely"

This is a reference joke, from the movie 'Airplane!'

StationEry as in pEn
StationAry as in cAr

That's how I remember it.

"Prolly" really gets my goat!

... and don't call me surely

There's no excuse for chester draws though.
...
Not even if brought my bedroom furniture in the county town of Cheshire?

No, because it's still not a ****ing "draw."

This is a reference joke, from the movie 'Airplane!'

You can't be serious?

You can't be serious?

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley or misquote my feed lines.

StationEry as in pEn
StationAry as in cAr

That's how I remember it.

Probably the Northern in me, but I remember it because I pronounce it differently.

Stationary - "stay-shun-ah-[b]ry[/b]"
Stationery - "[b]stay[/b]-shun-ry"

One that gets me a bit- ridgid, rather than rigid.

As well as breaks/brakes and bought/brought.

Or starting a sentence with "Am" rather than "I'm/I am".

A real life post I read today, and struggled to make sense of!
"[i]I sore this web site on a progam I was watching that tells you what the tipical type of person that likes someone or something. Being a Geocacher I wondered if I was a tipical Geocacher, but is turns out I I don't fit many, if any of the cariteristics."[/i]

Eh???

One that gets me a bit- ridgid, rather than rigid.

Wow, really? I don't think I've ever seen that one. Guess it's similar to pidgeon.

Probably the Northern in me, but I remember it because I pronounce it differently.

Stationary - "station?ry"
Stationery - "stationry"

One that gets me a bit- ridgid, rather than rigid.

Doesn't help that there's a machinery company called Ridgid.

Wow, really? I don't think I've ever seen that one. Guess it's similar to pidgeon.

Quite often on this very forum. The search will show a lot of hits.

Ah, is that on the Other Side?

And this is the route of the problem.

Please tell me both mistakes were deliberate.