Which spelling mistakes really grate with you?

[TheTecknician]

Maybe it should be 'what', not 'which'. Anyways..

-aircrafts. Grrr! The plural of aircraft is 'aircraft', not 'aircrafts'. Even aviation companies make this mistake. No excuse.

BTW, I know spelling isn't easy for some so let's keep this light hearted.

Think of it as "bear" as in you're "bearing" something, like a load.

That's interesting, because my parents were Scots and never used the term "gotten" in their entire lives.

I’m from Ireland and I’ve heard of people saying youse but never heard youseuns. Where I come from we say ye instead of you all.

Alot. And it’s so, so common. Where does this one come from? Who is teaching people that “alot” is a word?

Your write, you dont say too cheeses. You forgetted the classifier words.

Two wheels/blocks/slices/chunks of cheese ect, pleeses.

Sigh. Gotten is not just used by Americans. It is correct English here in NI. We even use it on official documents (a government form I filled in last month for example.) Get annoyed about it by all means, but for many of us in the UK (whether we’re here by choice or force) it is perfectly normal. This always comes up and it always pisses me off.

'Everyday' instead of 'every day'. The first is an adjective: 'an everyday occurrence'.

If you do something every day then it's got a fucking space in it.

(however this is a losing battle, I am going to have to get off my high horse about it, because hardly any fucker knows the difference)

OMG I've just remember 'casted' - 'X has been casted in the role of Y' - I wish that would stop.

Grrr. And aks instead of ask. More of a speech thing than spelling maybe?

Pet peeve - using loving as a continuous verb (or whatever the correct grammatical term is). I'm not loving it. Yes MacDonald's - I'm looking at you.

You do say the fruits of our labours and you could say five different fruits. But it would be a box of fruit or fruit bowl.

Anyway, the mistakes I hate are the ones autoincorrect adds after I typed what I meant. And when it completely ignores a mistype that is no real word in any language.

<checks post vvveeerrryyyy carefully...>

Boarder for border kills me

Brakes/breaks
fair/fare
draw/drawer
alot
abit
incase

To, too
Their, there
Of, off

Re cheese/cheeses, it's to do with whether or not it's a countable or an uncountable noun. Some words are both, but in different contexts.

I love cheese = uncountable. Cheese, the mass, the substance.

These two cheeses are excellent = countable. Varieties of cheese.

I think with cheese, meat and fish, context is important.
Eg. "Usually I buy lots of packets of cheddar cheese but at Christmas I like to buy a variety of different cheeses." I would do the same with cold meat(s). I don't think it works for fish though. In that situation I would probably still use 'fish' and not 'fishes'.

I don't know if I'm right but I am quite pedantic for myself with a lot of grammar and it sounds fine. (Note correct reflexive use of 'myself'

Break for brake.

Lose and Loose

OMG I've just remember 'casted' - 'X has been casted in the role of Y' - I wish that would stop.

I once considered creating a document for my European colleagues on irregular past participles, after reading about servers being builded, shutted down, putted into production, etc. Ended up having a discussion with a Belgian about Blake and the words of Jerusalem and was it builded - pretty sure non of my native-English speaking colleagues could have argued about that...

So many. I'm not perfect as has been pointed out but I try. Not so much spelling as usage but I often see 'been' and 'being' get mixed up.

ECT
Chester Draws
AnE department (painted on the back of a wheelchair)
Giunea Pig- as written by a woman on nextdoor running a guinea pig sanctuary!

Thank you.

I was going to say I would say cheese if I was say ordering cheese and biscuits but cheeses if I said I had bought three different cheeses.

Came on to say this.
Most spelling mistakes don't bother me however etc jumps out of the page to me 😅

This one is correct. Fruits is used when it refers to many different kinds of fruit. E.g if you have a box of apples, bananas and pears it can be both a box of fruit but also a box of fruits.

Aloud instead of allowed.

Sets my teeth on edge. Lockdown was hell for so many reasons but reading "well we're not aloud" or "that's not aloud" every second post on Facebook was an additional mental torture I just did not need.

There's still a Mam in the class WhatsApp group who still says aloud when she means allowed, shes a teacher.

Bare with me…

Reign when they mean rein, as in ‘rein it in’ or the things to stop a toddler running off.