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

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What fresh hell is this?

Why can people not read and write any more?

Oh and don't get me started on there/their.

Awful.

Because they sound vaguely similar?

I've noticed 'probable' for 'probably' quite a bit recently.

There's a young presenter on the World Service who pronounces 'said' as 'sayed' and 'agreement' as 'AGG ruh ment'.

Someone should step in. The Beeb has a small but brilliant team of linguistic experts who advise on pronunciation.

OMG, yes. Especially "alot". I think that's especially prominent because alot is a word (it just doesn't mean "a lot") so the autocorrect waves it through!

When my son was in year 2 I noticed he was spelling a lot of words wrongly and the teacher never corrected him. I mentioned it at parents' evening and she said spelling didn't matter as long as they got the first letter right. I told her she was wrong and that poor spelling gives a bad impression. I know I wasn't the only one to bring it up.

Lazyitis

Genral sheer iggerance, innit.

When is 'alot' a word?

Because of low standards in education.

Is it so recent though or simply proliferated via use of social media and therefore seen written down in a way it wouldn't have been in the past? There are AI tools that create subtitles on videos on SM too and frequently get things wrong. Those tools are still learning.

Poor education and a lack of reading. If people read more, spelling would improve immeasurably across the board.

Most writing on videos is speech to text software and the videomaker is to lazy to check or lacks the knowledge to correct it. I guess the former is more likely.

English language isn’t loved or respected as it was previously. It will continue degrading till all nuance is eradicated.

Grammar's gone the same way as science, statesmanship, international law and reality

"Allot" means to distribute a share.
Just had to double check the spelling and 2 Ls is correct, but my autocorrect does not try to correct "Alot", so I wonder if that is the US spelling of Allot. Does anyone know?

I knew 'allot' as a word but thought there must be another with the 'alot' spelling when you said it was a word.
It seems not though.

Indeed it seems not.
I am as thick as pigshit, evidently.

Not at all. A lot (!) is autocorrected to the US spelling. It's a reasonable assumption.

Are you me?
A bit less basic, I know, but I’d add ‘disinterested’ when they mean ‘uninterested’, and discreet/discrete.

It's annoying for sure. Same as people who say could of instead of could have.

Although let's not forget that everyone didn't have the PRIVILEGE of a good education.

I couldn't get worked up over this tbh

Poor use of English.
it’s something that really annoys me.

There's also spellcheck/predicted text tripping people up. Try typing 'ill' without it trying to change it to 'I'll'.

Earlier I saw that someone couldn't 'bare' something 🤣

Announcers on TV are my pet pedant pronunciation hate. 'Aye' when it's 'a' and 'Th' all the time, forgetting it's sometimes pronounced 'thee'. Possibly Americanisation.

I don't think it's laziness. I think it's 100% to do with lack of literacy. The people that do it simply do not know the difference between his and he's and are using them interchangeably. Also agree with a PP who said it's because the people that write like this, don't read and so they write what they hear.

Draws instead of drawers

It's not recent no, spellings varied a lot between regions before standardised spelling in I think the 15th or 16th century. There's a guy on YouTube, robwords, who did a piece on it if I remember rightly.

I pronounce said as sayd . It’s an Edinburgh pronunciation.
(Don’t pronounce agreement that way though)