So I realised I didn't know how to say/spell...

[Yulebealrite]

Fell swoop.

I wrote foul swoop. Thought no, fowls fly and swoop so it's probably that. Checked it by googling and realised that I've been saying it wrongly al these years.

It's fell swoop.

Yule yes upmost is short for uppermost which is probably where the confusion comes in so people think it's the same word and meaning.

I said arctic lorry rather than artic lorry for a really really long time.

Oh I need to be on this thread. Lots of these make me quite angry/eye roll/laugh depending on my mood.

Artic Roll, anybody? It's like a normal Wall's Arctic Roll except for it bending in the middle.

Oh, you want to buy some Typhoon Tea?

That'll cause a bit of a storm in a teacup.

People who use reflective pronouns, myself, yourself etc wrongly, in an attempt to belittle others by thinking they sound educated, when actually they come across as the opposite.

‘Myself’ is NOT a posh version of ‘me’

You're talking about penguins and wondering whether they notice the Northern Lights.

Please, don't speak anymore. I know Aurora is a difficult word. But just don't do this to me, as you'll only be offended by my attempts to stifle my laughter.

Been instead of being is awful.

As is, 'off my own back' instead of 'bat'.

Let's not talk about 'another think/thing coming', it always ends in a bun fight

I'll grin and bare it if you want but one of you will have to pick me up from the police station.

I avoid using the word bare/bear on here (and anywhere else where I write things), although I say it a lot "Can't bear/bare it" / "bare/bear with me" etc because I can NEVER decide which one's right and written down they both look wrong.

Is there a way of remembering/knowing?

I'm going to get torn to shreds on this thread, aren't I!

Bare (bARsE) meaning nude

Bear ‘EAR’ bears have ears
Also for bear left
Bear with me
Loads bearing

To grin and bear something is to bear the load being placed on you and you taking it

Reflective pronouns?

Pacific/ specific; refuge/ refuse; mute/ moot; discrete/discreet; advice/ advise; practice/ practise; licence/ license; register office/ registry office. And off topic, the hideous tautological inexactitude; foot pedal!

For years I thought " to make ends meet" was "to make hen's meat" and had something to do with eating old chickens .

AnneOfCleavage 'Upmost' isn't a word, it's 'uppermost'.

I only found out last year that it’s not ‘all the range’ but actually ‘all the rage’

I even had an argument with my DH and had to back down when I googled it!

The problem with the internet is that these mis-spellings are bloody everywhere as there is no editing like there would have been in pre-internet days of newspapers, books and magazines. So the brain starts to absorb the most commonly mis-spelled words and before you know it, you realise YOU have spelled something really basic wrong and haven’t noticed. Which is really annoying if you’re a bit of a spelling and grammar pedant.

It DOES matter though. An example from yesterday at work (secondary school). A pupil was searching a website for “Boy: Tails of Childhood” and then getting frustrated that it didn’t appear in the results list. This was the class set text. How often would he have seen that written on the front cover of that book and yet he STILL spelled it wrong?! No doubt because he has seen the two words used interchangeably on social media and his brain no longer notices that one is the correct use and one isn’t.

My most hated one on social media is “here, here!” It’s the equivalent of fingers scraping down a blackboard to me. I assume that people think it’s correct because it suggests that they have their hand up to let it be known that they are in agreement with whatever has been written.

These threads never go from start to finish without someone pointing out a malapropism that they hate and getting it wrong.

Reflective pronoun being one example.

Potentially an auto-correct, but it makes me laugh every time.

Renumeration instead of remuneration. Pacific instead of specific. Grinds my gears. Ack.

I see this all the time on here but weary instead of wary.

I have a colleague who says batter instead of bat an eye[lid]. As in “I barely battered an eye”. I thought I misheard the first time, but she’s said it again since. She can be a pompous arse at times so it amused me.

Has anyone mentioned the Chester draws? 😡

I see rest bite (respite) frequently.
Weary instead of wary - people even say it like this now too.

And even when people say or write ‘moot point’ - rather than ‘mute point’ - they still get the meaning wrong. It means