Woman/Women and Accidentally/Accidently

[DevonLass70]

I don't think this has been covered before, but I've noticed a lot of people both here and on other forums mixing up the use of woman/women. They are talking about one person but will say for example 'a women came up to me...' Or talk about 2 woman, I've even spotted it on TV subtitles.

Another one I've come across is the use of accidently instead of accidentally - grr!

[StealthPolarBear]

Faze/phase
Loads more
I do feel we are dumbing down (including myself in that)

[Pedestriana]

breath/breathe
their/there/they're
your/you're
accept/except
access/excess
were/where
he's/his
bought/brought
aswell
alot

And far too many more....

[StealthPolarBear]

Oh yes I've started to notice he's a lot more than I used to. "So he grabbed he's keys, got in he's car and drove off/of"
Why?? This is really basic stuff. Is this a schools thing?

[StealthPolarBear]

Getting to the route of the problem

[WixingMords]

Rediculous is getting more and more common too.

[StealthPolarBear]

Discusted and apauled

[Pedestriana]

Stealth I noticed a couple of gems from younger friends this year..

1. "role on next month"
   

I replied saying 'Have you got a new job?'

1. "on root to festival"
   

[CuttedUpPear]

On a thread title today

Stag doo

Not even a typo as is was repeated in the post.

[iklboo]

Ano it dos

(I know it does)

[TheNumberfaker]

Someone on a Facebook selling page I'm on used affect (properly) instead of effect the other day. I nearly fainted!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Cue/queue (or que sometimes) seems problematic too.

[StealthPolarBear]

Oh yes and the whole tone of those threads

Que his ex barging in and demanding a word...fast forward three weeks and BOOM I'm pregnant

[tarashill]

The most common one I see is defiantly instead of definitely. Two words with such different meanings.

[tarashill]

I saw that Cutteduppear, I was hoping someone would point it out. I wanted to but didn't dare.

[GilbertBlytheWouldGetIt]

Oh the women thing drives me barmy. Do people think it's the same word for singular and plural? Like deer?

[WMittens]

I've seen the woman/women mistake quite alot*, as well as defiantly/definitely - I wonder if that's partly due to crap autocorrect on phones and tablets.



*

[FruSirkaOla]

The use of exasperated instead of exacerbated - although I agree with WM about crap autocorrect.

One I'm increasingly mystified by is the use of the word floor when someone means ground.