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?

”……… if he had went there………”. It sounds wrong and is obviously incorrect.

“Are” instead of “our”
“me either” instead of “me neither”
using the words “lend” and “borrow” wrongly

The odd but increasingly common peculiarity of saying, for example, “it needs fixed” instead of “it needs fixing” or “it needs to be fixed”

Very grating.

Oh, a common MN one: “pack lunch”! (Just as annoying as “mash potato”) 😂

Noone. What is noone? Why are more and more people writing it? What do they hear in their head when they type noone? It sounds nothing like no one and isn't an actual word.
That one annoys me.

I know someone that uses “his” instead of “he’s”

Facebook posts talking about her son “his done so well, his got great scores!” etc

Just bizarre, I honestly don’t understand how someone with English as a first language can’t notice they’re wrong? When they’re reading, they mist notice that the word they are using is the wrong one?!

Saying “squash” instead of “quash”

What makes this worse is it’s usually someone being very serious and it sounds so babyish, which makes it very noticeable!

Ohhh tthiiissss!! Same with “yourself”!! It’s as though they think saying “you” is rude?! I’ve heard this for years across workplaces.

“I’ll send this out to yourself” ?! What in the batshittery…..

In Ireland we say things like oh, it’s yourself now Marty. It’s a direct translation from the Irish.

I am stood.
I am sat.

Common mistakes made by reporters.

That's not the same. We would say that in Scotland and also "how is himself?". These are colloquiolisms. The previous poster is correct as people now say on the phone things like "it was myself you spoke to earlier" or "was I speaking to yourself earlier?"

'Text' being used as a past tense verb, as in "I text him last night." No, you textED him.
Rein/reign and cue/queue are my current bugbears.
Have given up the ghost on anyone ever getting practise/practice correct.

There was a whole 1000-post thread on "toeing the line" a few years back. Made it into Classics, I think. Lots of people trying to make out "towing" was a regional thing when no. It's a WRONG thing.

Have not RTFT.

People who go in a supermarket and ask for macaroons (note the oooo sound) when what they actually want are macarons (no oooo sound).

Please see supporting evidence, attached.

Oh I know, this is different! Trust me!

Loose/lose, and many others already mentioned, but one misuse that really grates is 'woman' as an adjective. It's a noun. The adjective is 'female'. So it's incorrect to say 'woman priest'. And no one ever says 'man nurse', do they? I even wrote in to the BBC about their egregious use of 'woman' as an adjective and when they wrote back to thank me the email had grammatical errors. 🙄

Here, here.

Use of ‘I’ incorrectly in a sentence because people think it’s more polite than ‘me’ when it’s just grammatically wrong.

‘Can you give John and I a call’ NO!

I once saw someone stating they live in a 'colder sack' 😬

It's very, very common here in the West Coast of Scotland. It drives me insane- use/ youse/ yous. I suppose it's the Scottish version of the American y'all.

Also very common is the inter-changing of done & did. It absolutely rips my knitting! I cannot abide it. I have to grit my teeth & dig my nails into something quietly each & every time.

Additionally, the ommission of -ly in the adverb, e.g. 'You did brilliant'. No they didn't, they did 'brilliantly'. Grrr...

"Chocking" instead of choking is increasingly common.
"Me and John went" or " give it to John and I" - my mum had a great way of explaining this - first of all, say the sentence as if it's only about you, so "I went" or "give it to me", then always put the other person first. So it becomes "John and I went" and "give it to John and me".
I'm fairly sure things like "it needs cleaned", whilst technically incorrect, are common regional variations in NI and Scotland. Same as "youse" for the plural of you.

Hellish. I usually have to turn off the radio when I hear that.

Discrete and discreet are two words with different meanings

Confab is short for confabulation. Not 'conflab'.

Oh god he's for his and his for he's.

Did anyone see the he's hoody's thread?

This seems to be a relatively new thing and I just despair of people in general now.

Draw instead of drawer in an OP makes me instantly leave a thread; I know I have nothing in common with the poster. Same with loose instead of lose and dropping the “ly” from adverbs. I grew up speaking one of the most idiosyncratic dialects in the U.K. (Aberdeenshire Doric) but we were taught to write and speak proper English at school because it’s important.

This one really did shock me!

You often see it (too often!) but today I saw it in an email supposedly from the editor of The Telegraph! Who AFAIK is not American….

‘cozy’ !!😱

I actually like quirks like that - like an Irish friend who often said e.g. ‘I was just after (e.g.) cooking the dinner…’ - meaning that she’d just done it.

Similarly, as a teacher on my long ago TEFL course related of her elderly Scottish grandmother, ‘I should have went…’.

To me anyway, dialect related is a different thing from carelessness or just plain ignorance (lousy teaching).