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.

How about telling him that ‘there’ is just ‘here’ with a T added.

Has anyone got any ‘advise’ about how to get better at spelling!

Not a spelling mistake, but putting an apostrophe to make something plural. Potato's, carrot's, tomato's.

Why do people do this?

Also in USA, they say Math. Its Maths or Mathematics.

Even a fully paid-up grumpy old pedant like me could forgive it when it often appeared on a forum for carers of people with dementia. Given that I was often at my wits’ end myself, I could see why they got it wrong - the poor things were desperate for a ‘bite’ of ‘rest’.

I often see ‘worse’ when they clearly mean ‘worst’. Presumably that could be down to autocorrect or spellcheck, though.

Their/there, to/too

‘Fayre’ is down in my big fat dictionary as a ‘fake antique’ spelling of ‘fare’ (meaning food) but TBH it’s often used for ‘fair’ as well. To me it’d be a Wedding Fair, not to mention a Summer/Christmas ditto.

He could be a Bob Mortimer fan.

Most of the things people are saying aren't spelling mistakes, which the OP asked about, though; most are grammatical errors.

My pet spelling mistake hate is definitely reserved for 'definately' My daughter also says irregardless rather than regardless which annoys me too

I thought of another (long thread so might have been spoken of)

"Poor Angle" for Poor Angel
Infuriates Me

I used to like English, but now I prefer math. I'm loving angles instead.

😆

‘Chocking’ for ‘choking’

’breath’ instead of ‘breathe’ - as in “just breath through it”

Yes this is a major bugbear of mine.

And similarly using ‘ies’ when talking about the singular e.g. ‘my babies not well’ or ‘my babies head’

First word that came to mind is discusting.

Damp squid instead of the correct damp squib

Etc.

Not ect.

pouring over something instead of poring.

Especially when combined with Iv rather than I've. How to make yourself sound really thick.

Just saw this on a thread…

“send a wedding gift toot sweet”

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Dinning when people mean dining 😤 I wonder whether people who spell it wrong laugh at the people spelling it correctly and think ‘haha, you’ve missed an n’ 🙄

Another one I hate is when people get lend and borrow mixed up. How do these people manage to walk and breathe at the same time if they can’t understand basic grammar? 🤦‍♀️

I’m often in court with a solicitor who does this, I can never get my head around how they don’t realise as it is very common in my field of work to be applying for a Specific Issue Order…