Why can no one spell...

[sonlypuppyfat]

Does? I'm in a few facebook groups and in nearly everyone, " dose anyone know a recipe" or " dose anyone know a good film" I so want to correct that one word, but that doesn't make you many friends

On a par with ‘I’m selling these draws I brought’
Drawers, Bought!!!!!!

I think it’s auto correct and people don’t reread before posting. It happens all the time on these very pages!

I have noticed lots of people mix up “definitely” with “defiantly”.

Barging is the one that gets on my tits. ‘Found this amazing barging today, only 50p!’. Do people actually pronounce it this way?!

Chester draws, anyone?

I have noticed lots of people mix up “definitely” with “defiantly”

Before the age of autocorrect, I used to see all sorts of garbled attempts at “definitely”. Now they all seem to autocorrect to “defiantly”. Which begs the question, shouldn’t autocorrect software just opt for “definitely” instead?

I wondered why a friend always writes defiantly when we use the word definitely so much more

For me it’s a combination of dyslexia and auto correct issues that cause this

Dyslexia

"I don't like being taken for granite"

I've seen a few "chester draws" lately, but to be fair, there are a lot of people who speak English as a second language.

Relying on the English people round here to tell you how to spell something, is like asking Dan Quayle to spell 'potato'.

After the passing of my Sister, I received a genuine & lovely card from a relative suggesting they were now among the angles in heaven.

I was showing my Parents & DDad piped up - knowing your Sister it will be all the obtuse ones.

TBH we all had to laugh, My fantastic & much loved Sister could be a little toad at times.

My SPAG is bad, I now tend to type messages then hand-write them into cards. It gives me a chance to mess with the content at the same time.

I've been looking for a new desk online and you wouldn't believe how many people post in the Q&A section "can you change the handles on the draws?"/"how deep are the draws?"

ARGH.

I've just been looking at a lovely 'scare electrics' racing set 😏

One poster on a gardening page got ribbed for asking about suggestions for erotic plants.

@Stationeryqueen
The angles, that’s funny especially an obtuse one 🤣😇

Bare with me (errr no thanks).

The one that annoys me that I see countless times is 'to' and 'too'.

My biggest bugbear is 'on route'. It really winds me up!

I can't believe how many people use 'of' instead of 'have'. That, and the overuse of 'yourself' and 'myself' when a simple 'you' or 'me' would do, are my grammar pet peeves!

I think that autocorrect can be responsible for some errors, but not those such as ‘rediculous’. Do people pronounce it that way? Having typed it, I see that a red line is underneath. Maybe people don’t notice?

Some people weren’t fortunate enough to have received a good education or to have been parented by people who were able (because of their own learning difficulties or inadequate schooling or language problems or health or stability or any one of such similar reasons) to help them with their learning. I’m not sure what’s so unbelievable about that. And if you don’t know that you’re spelling something incorrectly in the first place, you aren’t going to think you need to do anything about it.

And as an aside - we teach children to read and write through phonics: so I don’t think it’s paetocilarly surprising that some adults might sound out unknown words according to their own accent or dialect and then write them down accordingly.

I find it irritating when people don't know the difference between 'lose' and 'loose'.

Many of the errors are highlighted when typing though, so wouldn’t you notice?

They sound like utter cults...