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.

Seeing "on mass" more frequently as well, which is just as irritating.

You lost me at 'anyways' ! One of my pet hates!

Yourselves instead of you.
Myself instead of me.

I worked with a woman who always said pacific instead of specific

It’s a joke

Or, even more annoyingly, defiantly...!

defiantly - instead of definitely! It’s everywhere!
weary - instead of wary.
loose - instead of lose
dosen’t - instead of doesn’t

I've noticed Americans use "accommodations" and there seems to be an increasing trend of using "He done" rather than "he did", which I guess is grammatical rather than spelling but it drives me mad!!

"per say"

"rediculous"

Apologies. I usually say 'anyhoo'.

Fair point. It's a matter of usage and 'aircrafts' isn't even a word, at least not in English.

on route and on mass have reminded me of

on accident

<grinds teeth>

Your, when it should be you're.(You are.) They mean COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS.

I have a particular gripe with the misuse of 'obligated' when the user actually means 'obliged'.

I think it's related to the common misuse of the reflexive pronoun: people think it makes their writing sound more formal / educated, when the truth is the opposite.

I'm also mildly fascinated by loose for lose / draws for drawers. I'm Scottish and in my accent (most rhotic accents, I think) those words sound completely different.

The Surf advert that was out a few years ago made me scratch my head, until a friend from SE England kindly read it out loud to me. 😁

I've begun to notice the letter 'g' being increasingly dropped from written words as well as in speech, i.e. 'doin' 'goin' 'sleepin'. Never mind the use of 'been' for variants of 'is being', 'has gone', 'have been' etc... "I been hospital" "he been shop" "they been pub".

Oh, obviously not a funny one 🙈

Ooh, I remembered another one, which is remarkably common on MN: 'viscous' for 'vicious'.

I get that it's probably autocorrect, but it does lead to some quite funny interpretations.

I know a girl who says 'Rockweiller' when referring to the dog and 'Great Dame' when referring to the other larger breed.

Haven't read the whole thread so don't know if these two have been mentioned already but the one's that bother me are 'Rediculous' and 'defiantly' when they mean definitely.

All these mentioned and phase and faze. Autocorrect does have a lot to answer for.

Good point about "draws." This is not a mistake that we rhotic speakers make.

Brought rather than bought. Wrong your/you're. Loose instead of loose. Could/should/would have. Special mention to ‘sat’ such as ‘I was sat..’ ‘we were sat…’ ‘she was sat..’ etc…,should be ‘were sitting’.

What way do you spell 'wedding fair'. I think technically it's fayre but it just seems pretentious, most places just say fair. Nit that it's something I need to spell very often as i got married 20 years ago

(Not spelling but grammar) People using ‘text’ as a past tense verb.
The thing is, it’s frowned upon here on MN to correct these things but the result of that is that it perpetuates the error and people are re-informed ed in their belief that the wrong spelling/usage is acceptable.
IT. IS. NOT!! (Stamps foot)

We was wrong. I done it. I seen it.