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.

I see stationary more than stationery these days to mean pens and pencils etc. It’s becoming a bit like draw for drawers where they may as well change them and have done with it.

I hate the phased/fazed confusion too.

Also, loose/lose, less/fewer, your/you’re…

Please say he teaches maths…

No, but at least he doesn’t teach English. He is a Head of Year though…

Rest bite. As in a period of rest, respite. I just noticed it on a thread here but I see it often.

I'm not sure but I'd venture that 'altogether and 'all together' are both correct but the former is more common. But 'alright' is incorrect whereas 'all right' is correct. At least in British English.

'Supercede' instead of 'supersede'. 🙄

@TheTecknician , 'altogether and 'all together' are both correct

They are both correct but they have different meanings.
Altogether or all together ? - Cambridge Grammar

The king is in the altogether ect...

Loose incorrectly written for lose drives me mad because it seems to be becoming the default spelling 🧐

@TheTecknician , et cetera is etc.

Faze and phase.

🙄

we are in england not america...youre sound an arse

Where in Scotland are you fae? Gotten is unfamiliar to me (central)

I know. I wasn’t being serious.

I was.

Prostate spelled prostrate and other simple medical terminology. You'd think 9 years+ in the job you'd know how to spell it or how to Google it.

People saying ‘I done something’ instead of ‘I have done’. It drives me mad.

I also saw damp squid on a thread yesterday 🦑

The vagaries or spell-check do not help…

I am an English graduate and ex-teacher. And yet, somehow, I apparently wrote this:

… throw spanner’s in the works 😱

I SWEAR I wrote spanners!!

(FFS……. If I hadn’t caught it, I’d have ended up with spanner’s again…!!!

Do you mean youre? As you’ve either spelt “you’re” incorrectly (and used the wrong word) or spelt “your” incorrectly...

And yes, we are are in England (capital E) which means it is ‘despatched’ not ‘dispatched’ as you originally posted and then, perhaps because of poor comprehension, repeated 😂

Independant also very prevalent now 😱

My BIL seems to mention “Meats and cheeses” every time we see him. It makes me cringe so bad!!
He also likes to mention he has 2 ovens all the time. Now because I’ve noticed it I can’t un notice it and it drives me bonkers!!

Not a spelling mistake as such, but 'wait list' really annoys me if it has obviously been used by someone in the UK. What happened to 'waiting list'?

Oh, and blood work's another one. Surely we have blood tests?

It's like trying to make something seem bountiful and fancy. Like nobody has ever seen three kinds of supermarket deli meat and a bit of brie and cheddar?!

Amy MacDonald, the Scottish singer, uses gotten on her Instagram videos I’ve noticed.

I've noticed 'barley' instead of 'barely' several times, but that might be a spellcheck thing.