Why are people using "his" instead of "he's"?

[Mydadsbirthday]

What fresh hell is this?

Why can people not read and write any more?

People are stupid and lazy. That's the only explanantion I can come up with.

Accent translated into text. Also ome people use dictation tools instead of typing. As long as it's understandable they're not bothered about spelling, if they realise it's wrong.

I’ve noticed he’s used for his as well. I don’t really get bothered by spelling mistakes but his/he’s really annoys me for some reason. I see it a lot on here and on tik tok. I have never noticed it used by Scottish people (where I’m from so majority of my social media is Scottish people) and have always wondered if it’s an accent thing.

I think this is meant to be in pedants corner, however I agree with you OP

Having said that I realised on a thread the other day I said 'by' instead of 'buy' and another post I wrote 'too' instead of 'to'. This is happening a lot to me over the past few years due to peri menopause, I read back what Ive written and a lot of it is wrong.

So Im a bit more sympathetic now.

Some people pronounce them almost identically, so can’t distinguish easily when writing eg ‘He’s brought his bagpipes to the barbecue’, I agree it’s maddening. Though not yet up there with confusing ‘bought’ and ‘brought’ for me. Or the even weirder confusion of ‘ground’ and ‘floor’.

If it was an accent thing, it wouldn't be a recent thing so I don't buy that.

It's probably speech to text yes or just a general decline of standards in this country

You're not alone in noticing the "spelling errors".
I've noticed, on tiktok mainly, that too many poster's write "then", when they mean "than" and will also say and write "woman" when they mean "women". I personally find it so frustrating and I know I shouldn't get so worked up about it, but I do! 😫

See also been for being.

I am a SPAG bore, happy to admit it, but I don't pull people up on it when they get it wrong on an informal chat site such as Mumsnet.

You wouldn't believe what I saw on a comment on Facebook this morning. Ansas for answers . But then again this person could have dyslexia or English not as their first language so it doesn't pay to get too worked up about it.

I have a theory about this and it is that people are often not sure about their spelling and assume that they are wrong when they see something spelt differently. Then they adopt the incorrect spelling and so it goes on. One of the reasons I think this is that as an ex-primary school teacher, I rarely saw Year 5/6 children make these errors. They seem to creep in later.

Also, as a pp said, people are thick and lazy…

I thought it was the other way round. Saying 'he's' when they mean 'his'? I've not seen it in reverse. That is awful if now people are saying it wrong in two ways. Argghhh!!

I never see ‘woman’ any more! It’s always ‘she is a successful women’.

I’ve noticed ‘hes’ too. Which autocorrects.

I also never pull people up on it in informal chats of course and would never be so rude to remark individually but I just keep seeing it and it's awful! I have teens and would definitely correct them if I saw it.

"Ansas" I think is just internet slang maybe.

I notice in emails I read back, which look right at the time, Ive used been for being and vice versa and also 'that' instead of 'than'. I keep doing it, my eyes dont see it, my fingers type out the word phonetically a lot of the time now. Dont know why. My SPAG is excellent but you wouldnt know from my written stuff now!

‘Been’ instead of ‘being’ pisses me off. I see it often on here.

Isn't it that people just aren't taught to spell properly any more? DH went to a posh school and had letter-writing lessons. I didn't. In fact I only learnt the difference between it's and its when I went on an editing course. So until someone told me that its is like his and hers, I had no idea. Plus the stupid phone always thinks it knows better.

@TitusMoan I see and hear it all the time!
I think I just need to come off tiktok!! 😁
I'm not even that good at written English myself and only got a gcse C, in English literature. So really, I should just wind my neck in 🙈

Eh? In the North East people write he's when they mean his all the time!😆

For example, "he's fresh trim looks mint."

My main suspect is autocorrect.
I have to always check because the little bastard is forever changing shit.

When I was at junior school they were trying some stupid shit about the importance of expressing yourself being greater than punctuation and spelling, or something. Result? A school full of kids unable to fucking spell. Or punctuate properly. It's a good job I love books because being a prolific reader helped with that.

same with maths. Fucked that up too, like not making you recite your times tables properly. Which means I now have to go through an entire bloody list to get to what I want eg 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54...

Whereas my dad for example used to be able to tell you any eg dad what's 6 times 9 and he'd say 54 because he'd been taught to recite it 1 times 9 is 9, 2 times 9 is 18... so you asked him any combination on the times tables and he instantly had the answer because he'd had it drilled into him.

I'm 51 years old and I count on my bloody fingers. It's ridiculous.

Because they can't spell and were not taught English grammar I assume. "His" and numerous similar errors are also perpetuated by social media. I suppose eventually it will become standard English.

When people don't read they write what they hear, which is why we get "could of" and "his."

Get your children to read, everyone.

I see "his gorgeous hun" on social media posts quite often.

It makes me wince though like another poster my peri brain fog sometimes leads me to make mistakes when not concentrating that would have horrified me 5 years ago, like muddling to and too. I was writing a note by hand a few days ago and genuinely couldn't remember if acquire had a "c" and had to check. Someone pulled me up yesterday on mumsnet for saying risk adverse instead of risk averse. I know averse is correct but I still must have typed it out wrong without realising!

I had been irritated earlier that day by someone referring to their "sister in laws" but stopped myself correcting them and I was quite glad I hadn't! Some mistakes are genuine slip-ups.

But if this is a safe space for moans (I know we also have Pedants' Corner) these persistent ones also make me twitch:
Free reign
Per say
Step foot
Clicky (instead of cliquey)
Pack lunch
Needs gone etc (is including "to be" really so hard?
Here here
Great full
Your (though some people overcompensate and put you're where your would actually be correct)
On suite/On route
Myself/Yourself used as a primary pronoun
Greengrocer apostrophes.

Aaah, I feel better now.

I see alot, abit, incase, etc and it irritates me.