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

@Hazelbright when you say cue for que, do you actually mean queue?

@HazelBite. I'll try again! Do you mean queue?

Online / in communications via phone: because the keys are tiny and I have sausage fingers and this leads to either a) autocorrect doing its worst or b) me switching it off and instead hitting a wrong key every now and again - happens in words such as "agaib", "ithrr", etc., i.e. with keys located next to one another.

On a proper keyboard, I spell correctly. Ans still run spell check. People sending me stuff for review without having run spell check are a pet peeve.

Ans still run spell check.

^^ point in case.

I have a colleague who uses 'of' and 'off' interchangeably. I'm bemused but haven't said anything.

A local one that grinds my gears is "mirro". "Is eny one selling a mirro with a wooden frame?"

SOupertrooper, no I expect she means that people type 'que' when they mean 'cue'. I've seen it often on MN.

e.g. 'I told her I couldn't help. Que a lot of shouting and yelling.'
Que obviously isn't a word, and in any case it would probably be pronounced 'kwuh'!

But, yes, there are some that are arguably really just people not knowing how to spell.

Recently read in a sales presentation sent to me for review:

[My firm] recommends that [client] adopt a best of bread approach to its [product] strategy.

I'm rather worried that this might create entirely new fighting grounds in the client org's office politics. It's an epic showdown in the boardroom between the brioche favouring faction and the plain white afficionados.

Stephen Fry on picking up on grammar and spelling bit.ly/2KFPUEm?cc=a18f6aaa4766b3b353cc90290aafd61a

Brilliant

Are you as frustrated with a person with one leg that limps? Or a blind person who doesnt read signs correctly?

Please read this.

My DS sees every letter twice. Every letter moves but, sadly, not in unison. Small print looks like those querty code things.

Now imagine how hard it is to read. How hard it is to spell. Did you know what the person meant - yes, you did. So they are communicating PERFECTLY adequately in what is a non professional platform.

So, next time you see it, move on and think yourself lucky you are not dyslexic.

@SOupertrooper
Cue.......A sign or signal to begin/start eg Cue the music!
Queue..... A line of people waiting
Que.......French word for what

@Gingernaut Trust me, many of the people who misspell "definitely" and "chest of drawers" are the native speakers.

This thread is getting a bit rediculous.

Dinning table, anyone ?

It's one I'm constantly correcting with DD2 Dose for does - as we work though apple and pears, a spelling and grammar program - she has finally started self-correcting.

It must be missed in school.

We just don't see their work much to spot things like this ourselves and frankly I'm not the best person to be teaching them how to spell as I struggle -diagnosed with dyslexia.

She does read but miss spoken words and constant spelling mistakes aren’t being picked up by anyone but me and occasionally DH.

This must be the most answered posts I've ever made!

MrsIronfoundersson as Likethebattle suggests....my full title is Her Majesty Queen of Pens, Pencils and Highlighters, Grand Ruler of Paper & Envelopes, Defender of the Sellotape.

I am defiantly not stationary.

Advice and advise

License used as a noun.

It's so common now that it probably isn't regarded as being incorrect.

So, next time you see it, move on and think yourself lucky you are not dyslexic.

I am dyslexic. Lots of these are not dyslexic mistakes, no one misspells 'have' as 'of'.

Sometimes it really does make someone look bad. As part of my PGCE we had a talk from someone who's job was to help children transition from primary to secondary school.

She put up a powerpoint showing all the people she interacted with,they included

teacher's
children
parent's
school's

Yes I judged.

Another dyslexic person here. Lucky my spelling isn’t too bad. I see things that make me grrr
The use of yous drives me nuts
Ano is another one
But I don’t say anything to anyone it just annoys me inwardly sometimes.

It’s lazy imo but I think some people just don’t know any better.

@StationaryQueen ah I was trying to be amusing, as my boss always spells the Envelope type of stationEry with an A as in vAn.

Oh fgs i misspelt your name!

Oh how I love a thread of Grammar Nazis. I'm a self-confessed 'Grazi'. Drives me round the twist that people are allowed to leave school saying things like 'should of/would of/could of' and not knowing the difference between 'where', 'we're' and 'wear'. I read the hashtag on Twitter yesterday #notallheroswherecapes.... Really?

Sorry to point this out, sashh, but shouldn't that be 'whose' as the possessive?
'Who's' would be the abbreviation for 'who is'

I read a discharge summary written by a doctor today which was all about a patient's chocking episode. How do you manage to train as a doctor without know how to spell the word 'choke'?