Dear dear

[anothernamejeeves]

Just saw a Facebook post where someone had been discussing how their 'self of steam' has taken a battering over the past few months
How do you tell them?????
What are your fave misused sayings

Carnt even! I love my angles

This thread won't end well. With the fact that it's low down to poke fun at people who spell incorrectly might just have dyslexia or SEN, and all.

Just saying.

I work for NHS and there are some regulars which make me laugh but I probably will not remember them now. Rest bite rather than respite, prostrate rather than prostate, people telling you they have ' blood pressure' but not sure if it is high or low. Someone told me this week that a student had asked them why there were so many hashtags in medical notes. # is medical symbol for a fracture!

Manor instead of manner. Descrete instead of discreet.

Autocorrect not me personally posted about a nonce pie at Xmas....

My nan was talking about me always being on my “lap-dog” once!

I was told by email to “divide and concur”.

I think that people with dyslexia or a specific difficulty often go out of their way to check that they are spelling words correctly.

These examples aren’t the same. Maybe people read less frequently and so are unused to some of the phrases.

On the "kids pronouncing things wrong" theme, one day I was making dumplings for a casserole and my DD picked up the box of suet and said "Mum, what's soo-ey?"

Pacific........ specific

A mug to to gently remind you of some of the rules

A mindgrain headache

and one of my favourites: ego testicle

I know someone that tarts up furniture and calls it the 'stressed look'

This thread won't end well. With the fact that it's low down to poke fun at people who spell incorrectly might just have dyslexia or SEN, and all.

I have dyslexia and SEN. I also have a cat that likes to walk across my keyboard. I find your attitude patronising and annoying.

These examples aren’t the same. Maybe people read less frequently and so are unused to some of the phrases.

So that's OK then, let's still just take the piss because people get things wrong and it's entertaining to show how clever we are and how thick they must be not to have our high standards.

Chester draws.

@daisychain01 get a life love

@daisychain01 dyslexia and SEN are not related to people mishearing a word or phrase which most of these posts are about. You'd be better off accusing us of attacking the hard of hearing!

@FiveShelties Took a while to live that down.

Very good !

I was reading a patient's notes when working in a hospital. The person looking after the gentleman that morning had described him as being 'unarousable'.

A local beautician on facebook....everyone and everything is 'gawjuss'. I don't know if she can't spell or if she is doing it on purpose but it really annoys me!!

A work colleague often describes events etc. As "a damp squid"

I saw a sign outside a nail salon saying that ‘walking nail appointments’ were available.

I've been seeing 'rest bite' for at least 20 years.

I suspect this is a consequence of phonics being used to the exclusion of all other techniques in reading. I agree that sounding words out is a fundamental concept, but there needs to be space for learning the words that don't follow those rules, so people can write something and think 'that doesn't look right'.