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.

There's still a Mam in the class WhatsApp group who still says aloud when she means allowed, shes a teacher.
Doesn't surprise me.

I think with so many of these people have no idea of the origin, nor have ever formally seen it written down so just make an assumption. (See 'off his own back')
I just saw someone talk about a 'damp squid' on another thread for example - which is making me chuckle as I imagine a squid, that lives in the sea, being damp...

A red lip.
A smoky eye.
A flared jean.

“I except it was all my fault”

You see it no more, but Wilko lorries used to have ‘Everytime!’ emblazoned across them in massive letters.

Anyways, grrr!

Alright is another irritant.

Can we extend this to things people say?

I am looking at Gordon Ramsey for this, "everythink", "anythink".

God I hate hearing that and its absolutely everywhere regardless of class, accent, education.

This is worse than 'everyday' because it's not even a fucking word!

So the difference between an adjective, and an adjective plus a noun.

I can’t say I ever really thought about this until I was doing an OU course called ‘The 19thC novel’.

At some point one of our email group asked whether she needed to write (in an essay) ‘nineteenth-century’ or ‘nineteenth century’.

So if it was a two-word adjective describing a noun, it’d be the former, but if she was saying e.g., ‘During the nineteenth century..’.

I don't mind ect from a particular friend, because we both know it's a Molesworth reference, but in most other cases, it's just wrong.

Alot, abit, aswell.

Alot

What instead of Which at the start of a question about preference.

Dependent/dependant. It's not rocket science. Dependant is a noun, dependent is an adjective and there is no such word as independant.
Years ago I worked in a hospital where there was a sign to the "High Dependancy Unit". I tried to alter it once in the middle of the night but unfortunately even standing on a chair I couldn't reach it.

It's adjective and adverb.

An everyday occurrence = it's an adjective giving information about a noun

I drink tea every day = an adverb which is giving information about a verb (in this case, how often it's done, but there are other types as well)

Definately instead of definitely….

Mysogeny and any other mis-spelling of misogyny. Surely the derivation is obvious - gyn like in gynaecology and mis like in misanthropy? And if you’re not certain why not just look it up?

It's en route, not ON route.

The words you quote are not spelling mistakes.

It sounds shite.

I hardly ever see any of these apart from on these threads.

But phased when they mean fazed crops up on MN all the time and drives me nuts.

I’m not sure I understand this comment? Are you implying Op has used the incorrect spelling? (They haven’t)

I hate it when you see it out in public. Surely big corporations use a basic spell check. I bought a single “potatoe” in Sainsburys this week. The same branch used to have a “stationary” aisle.

chester draws instead of chest of drawers
carnt

are the 2 worst ones for me

On MN, 'loose' instead of 'lose'.