With s spelled W. I T.H for fucksake. not W. I V.

[Vroomfondel]

T H


WITH


NOT


WIV

OK?

[BitOfFun]

Drives me potty too. As does "gonna", or worse, "gunna".

[ElectricSoftParade]

YANBU at all.

[GypsyMoth]

If you are being fussy, check the thread title before posting!!

[Tee2072]

Love the thread title. Did you use spellcheck wiv it?

[Sirzy]

I have never understood the use of words like "wiv" it hardly takes much longer to type one extra letter!

[nenevomito]

My personal bugbear is "wid", as in "I wanna get wid u."

Yeah, and I want to print that sentence out a thousand times and shove it up your nose.

[CatPower]

"Should have."

Not "should of."

Should of MAKES NO SENSE.

[MissBubbles]

fort and uvver really grate on me

[DontCallMePeanut]

My SIL types "lik dis n it gts on my tits lol k"

Seriously, if she spoke how she types, I'd be doing a life sentence by now

[hellospoon]

and is, is spelt IS not S.....this kind of thing really grinds on me. If you are going to have a moan about spelling atleast ensure your own is error free.

[Salmotrutta]

And pacific is an ocean......... if you mean specific then learn the bloomin' difference!!

[hiddenhome]

I complained to ds2's first primary school that he was spelling 'with' as 'wiv'

The teacher didn't see the problem and said it was normal to do that

We moved schools.

[Crossssssshairs]

'cuming' instead of 'coming'.

[KristineKochanski]

YANBU, it drives me potty too. I also twitch when someone writes 'should of' instead of 'should have', and don't know the difference between their and there. They are going for there tea for example - it's THEIR!!!
Also bloody text speak drives me mad too, it just makes the person writing it look thick as pig muck.

[EggyAllenPoe]

i just had to google your name kristine ... i knew i knew it from somewhere. just thought it might be Star Trek. wrong.

with is definitely with. though i think i've got in the habit of saying 'wiv' because that's what DD says. Tail wagging dog sorta thing.

[Mandy2003]

Spelt is a sort of grain.

Spelled is what you do with words.

But language evolves...if you compare Middle English with Tudor English with 18th Century English, well you see where I'm heading! Txt spk is actually going back towards Middle English IMO. Anyone read The Book of Dave by Will Self - check it out on Google Books if not, and see his idea of how language will be in the future!

[Armi]

I fucking hate 'norty'.

[hadagutsfull]

How about 'propa' - drives me propa mad!!!!

[saralyn]

Actually, Mandy2003, both spelt and spelled are correct versions of the verb.

See here

www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/irregular-verbs?s

You can choose which one you want to use.

[GreenEyesandHam]

Ugh.

Wiv
Norty
Chocklit
Yorkie puds

Hate hate hate the babyfication.

But I'm a hypocrite because nothing else gets my goat, I don't even mind hubby

[Belljar71]

Bokkle and likkle.AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[Kitty81]

Text speak makes me want to hit people with dictionaries. I'm a sixth form teacher of BTEC students and I have had essays handed in to me riddled with text speak, on more than one occasion. Horrible. One student hadn't even realised she was doing it

We also have a friend our age who uses textspeak all the time. Recently, he told us he's been using a dating site, and linked us to his profile, asking our opinion as he wasn't attracting the kind of girl he was looking for. The entire thing was in hideous textspeak. It just makes you look like a thick chav < smug superior emoticon> Especially the ones which are unnecessary as it's not like it saves you time?

Didn't the whole thing originate back when a text message was limited to a certain number of characters? I used it then, only in those circumstances, and I was a poverty stricken teenager. I would never use it on a formal document or anywhere else myself.

Suggested standard punishment for culprits?

[Kitty81]

Ps; I may be being a bit thick, but what's 'bokkle'?

[takethisonehereforastart]

Kitty bokkle should be bottle.

[Awomancalledhorse]

I had to admit defeat & ask my friend to re-text me something she wrote as I had no idea what she text me (to give backstory; I asked her to let me know if she was going to a certain pub); 'lol werez dis pub? lol will lt u kw if im cumin or nt wehn i find out wotz happening lol'
So she could write out 'happening' but not 'what's', her constant lol-ing is annoying too, she's still a great mate, just have to remember to phone her in the future!