Commonly Seen spelling errors/word swaps that you're itching to correct?

[Kreepture]

Prefaced by the fact i'm in pain, in the aftermath of a migraine (still have a headache) and have the tolerance of dewdrop for anything today...

I was reading on social media this morning, and i noticed that there seems to be some common word swaps going on recently that i'm seeing more and more regularly.

I'm aware that some people are dyslexic, or may have only heard a word and not seen it written, or english is second language..etc, but then you feel (and look) like a twat if you correct it on the off chance one of those things is the issue.

aloud, instead of allowed
the usual there/they're/their error
towed (the line), instead of toed,
reef instead of wreath
pacific instead of specific

Any others you've noticed.. and do you just ignore or correct?

I've just seen a Facebook post from our local council advertising a "Neighborhood litter pick". I know how these things happen, but expect better from official sources!

Discreet and Discrete, you can even find that one in books sometimes

My old neighbour used to talk about Human beans-? Called Heinz?

Absolutely all of these.

’Are’ for ‘Our’. It’s usually a joke these days, but you still sometimes see it in the wild. It’s the slack dumbness of it that gets me. Are country. Are women.

Here’s a possibly mad but solid way to think about effect and affect. Think about information, water, juice or any other substance that moves, flowing left to right, and think about the two words in lower case letters on a line next to each other:

affect effect
—————

The words affect and effect each represent something that either is affected by, or effects, something else.

Looking at the a of affect, information can flow in at the left hand gap in the a. So the thing you’re thinking about receives an affect, or is affected, by the stream of information, juice etc.

Looking at the e of effect, information or water or juice can flow out of the gap on the right hand side in the e. So the thing you are thinking about has an effect on other things.

Here Here to all of these.

And his instead of he’s. Someone on here does it all the time and it drives me mad.

Errm, isn't the correct phrase "Hear, hear"?

I fear that was the joke!

My dd1 wrote at school that she’d been trickle treating. She was only about 5 at the time though, and had no idea about the ‘trick’ bit.

Bare and bear!

I can’t bare seeing this mistake anymore 😂

Dinning instead of dining. That one really annoys me 😤 Another one is a grammar issue but getting confused between less than or fewer than (or the other way round)

Oh and getting lend and borrow wrong.

Weird preposition usage, such as, "I was very angry of him doing that." Examples of this all the time on here. Don't now where they come from.

Also "babies first birthday" but there's only one baby.

We're going collect are kids instead of our kids!

Why is recommend me incorrect? The person is saying "Recommend to me a good airfryer" and could say, "Can you recommend a good airfryer to me?"

If I say, "Pass me the sellotape" I'm not asking for someone to pass me around. I'm asking for the sellotape to be passed to me. I would call the sellotape the direct object of the sentence and myself the indirect object. We often leave the 'to' out of this type of sentence.

Sing (to) me that song which used to make me laugh.
Tell (to) me about the holiday in Spain.

Why is recommend me incorrect? The person is saying "Recommend to me a good airfryer" and could say, "Can you recommend a good airfryer to me?"

But they aren't including the word "to".

Both of your examples in quotes are correct. Recommend me isn't.

Is should really be it needs to be washed etc.!

Following on from this: we were stood, we were sat, it needs doing: etc. really annoy me! It should be we were standing or we sat, or it needs to be done! Is it laziness?

Loose/lose

Even worse than that, I’ve seen someone write “…my husband’s and I’s time together”. How can anyone possibly think that is correct? It’s even hard to say, how do they not realise it’s incorrect?

I work in a public facing local government role. Amongst my colleagues, I come across so many of the examples given here:

• Obviously used as a sentence filler.
• Bare with me (really, no thank you!)
• Should of, could-of, etc (really, that one drives me bats).
• Apostrophes liberally sprinkled across the page or missing entirely.
• i even saw ‘we was’ in an email from a MANAGER 🤯

It drives me mad.

(interestingly, my phone correctly autocorrected some of the points above and I had to go back and force it to write it wrong - good phone!)

Breaks for brakes
Dinning
Boarder when talking about lines between countries
Border when talking about someone who pays to stay in your home
And totally boggling versions of psychology. Physcology seems popular
Weary for wary
Sneak peak or as I saw on an EA Facebook post a sneak Pete.
Aloud for allowed
He’s for his. His for he’s. ‘His gone now’. ‘That’s he’s jacket’

Where instead of were. 'We where there yesterday'...arghhhh!

Broach instead of Brooch for a lapel pin.