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Wallah! It's the first time I've seen voilà written this way. But when I think about it, it seems like a really obvious thing to do so I wonder how common it is.
Is it a "thing" that I've just missed before now?

@deste, was it a wodden dinning table? Filling drawers and stationary cupboards are available too. I listed an ottoman recently and was sorely tempted to list it as an otterman, and claim that it could hold a fair few otters but not as many as Gertie.

I have noticed that when I list items the people who reply don't always read the listing. No, you can't have a piece of engineering equipment for your 6-year old.

Love love love lack toast intolerant.

Actually it's lack toast and tolerant. One of my favourites too. 😆

Defiantly I can forgive, it's a common autocorrect and at a glance is very similar so can go unnoticed.

Some of the Scottish ones (or any regional dialect) are acceptable in the right circumstances. Writing in slang can be amusing and fit the tone of some conversations. I'd write yous for instance during banter with friends but not outside of that.

@BluebellsareBlue

Honestly it grinds my gears to see people typing "how can I reorganise my draw" what the ACTUAL fuck? What school did these people stay away from?!? I'm in a fb group, DIY on a budget, have had great tips on there but for fucks sake, the amount of people that write draw instead of drawer kills me!! It's only the English people and I think it's because of the accent, it sounds like draw when they say it but fucking Jesus Mary and the wee donkey, crack a fucking book! Preferably a dictionary!

Shame you don't care about poor (or even non-existent) punctuation, arguably as important as correct spelling.

Oh and rest bite makes more sense than the actual word.

Normally with discusting you will also find people are 'fumming'

I always try to imagine what fumming is. So cross they are vibrating I wonder?! Like a really angry humming?

I have a deaf daughter and so am on various related Facebook groups. Auto correct seems to change 'deaf' to 'dead' an awful lot! I've seen people ask for recommendations for a school for 'profoundly dead' children, and someone who had a sign put up in their neighbourhood which apparently said 'caution, dead children'...

An Australian one and mostly in print so people don't hear it said: it's "vale", pronounced "VAH-lay", the Latin for good-bye and used when someone notable has died.

I've heard it pronounced as in Knights of the Vale or Vale of Eden.

I can't bear it anyway, toe-curlingly pretentious, but I keep it to myself outside MN.

Local Facebook group- seller always writes, "Needs Gond" EVERY time!

My friend says Pacific instead of specific and I never correct it because it makes me smile warmly and I adore her..

And non shallot- that is just a delight! Gonna use that! 🥰

I think some of these errors can be attributed to speech typing?

@Cadent

I just checked that online as I didn't believe that cars shark was incorrect - it's card sharp or card shark, phew!

Odd that you’re relieved. Do you really think you know every word?

Card sharp is original and correct, card shark is the evolved term:

“Sharping” is a 19th century slang word that meant “swindling.” It was used in a variety of activities, not just gambling. For instance, a con man posing as a preacher in the Old West might be known as a “gospel sharp.”

No I don't think I know every word, why would you say that?

Does anyone remember this from about three weeks ago on here?

I think it's a fat accomplice now that your husband has told them not to worry about the money

@TrickyD

Does anyone remember this from about three weeks ago on here?

I think it's a fat accomplice now that your husband has told them not to worry about the money

Haha they must have been trolling surely!

@TrickyD

Does anyone remember this from about three weeks ago on here?

I think it's a fat accomplice now that your husband has told them not to worry about the money

I so love this.

It's made me think of how a group of old friends always said "fox paz" instead of "faux pas". They knew the correct pronunciation, but were still regularly pulled up on it by kindly interventionists.

@Egeegogxmv

I think some of these errors can be attributed to speech typing?

Yes, I think so too. But we mustn't spoil the fun of the clever posters who think their own SPaG is better, must we? I'd also say that as a lot of the totally hilarious anecdotes are from posters saying "my friend said...." that they probably misheard what their friend said, and that their friend said something perfectly correctly.

fat accomplice
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This is from some facebook clickbait post but it was a screenshot of somebody who had posted about somebody being "lack toast and tall of rent".
My Scottish colleague always said "draws" for "drawers" for some reason!

@Geamhradh it’s a fun thread, get over yourself!

If I know someone is prone to correcting one's speech, I deliberately mispronounce things.

We always say horses doovers. Think it was a Del Boy line in Only Fools and Horses too.

Very niche but back in the 80s an audio-typist would transcribe property details and these were in the description of my parents’ house. “Daydo rail, ceiling corner sink...” “Pedal stool wash hand basin”

lack toast and tall of rent
That's a cryptic crossword clue Surely?

@UsedName000 Unbelievable! You expect that sort of crap on Facebook but Next?! Come on, what's the world coming to.

Strickley Come Dancing or 'Strickley' for short.

Lol at Strickley!