to want to teach people how to spell certain words?

[AllOutOfNaiceHam]

You need to defiantly go to A&E.
Did he defiantly do that?
Tomorrow I will defiantly phone them.

I wand to defiantly punch these people. Definitely.

[deste]

Or, I borrowed them some money (or whatever).

[60sname]

'Been' for 'being'. As in 'are you been served?'. Grr.

[Redlocks30]

I would much rather people left out apostrophes if they weren't sure how to use them, than just throwing them at every word with an s at the end!


If in doubt, leave it out ;)

[Redlocks30]

'We was' is another v irritating one. An LSA I know says this a lot when talking about the activity she has been doing with a group: 'we was adding near doubles today, wasn't we?!' Arghhhh!

[HintofBream]

I was sat
I was stood
Urgh

[WafflyVersatile]

I've never seen definitely as defiantly. But many times I have seen it as definately.

Draw instead of drawer makes me feel quite stabby.

[puddeycat]

My neighbour uses facebook to give everyone a blow by blow account of his day. Even down to what he's eaten and drunk. And he always ends with " i sat and had a WISKY and all was well" WISKY is spelt wrong EVERY time and I dont know why but it Drives me insane! I can't delete him tho because he would ask me why!

[DupontetDupond]

Didn't bel

[DupontetDupond]

Whoops, trigger happy phone!!... Didn't believe the Chester Draws on eBay.... Until I looked on eBay and found several Chester draws for sale.(!!)- Including the following description :

"Bran new Chester draws and side table never stored anything is a solid peace of furniture"

Must confess to being a bit of a pedant, but.... sheesh.

[WilsonFrickett]

puddey you can hide people's posts, just hover to the right of their next status update and click on hide. No-one needs to look at wisky every night...

[Harebell]

ECT ECT ECT aargh etc.

[Tweasels]

In real life, I totally agree. I am astonished by some of the correspondence I receive at work from highly educated people. A particular woman who is a Dr in her field never gets lose and losing right, it's always loose and loosing. I find ths mystifying.

However, on here, I couldn't care less. Most spelling mistakes are probably typos or just because it's hard to spell check a stream of thought.

I've been pulled on my grammar twice by the same person (a regular poster) and I felt a bit humiliated.

[chateauferret]

Up here in the west of Scotland 'definitely' is frequently (mis)spelled the way it is pronounced, because the long 'I' diphthong in say 'shite' is rendered as a long 'a': so sounds almost like it rhymes with 'mate'. And the stress goes onto the third syllable for some reason, so it's 'deff-in-ATE-ly'.

[littleginger]

I've read this whole thread to see if anyone else has noticed the increase of 'carnt' arghghghghghghghgh

My colleague uses it constantly. I demand a pay rise.

[SlouchingPanda]

My current bugbear is 'worse'... as in:

Childbirth was the worse pain I have ever had.
It was the worse experience of my life.

Repeat after me: bad, worse, worst

Aaaaaaaagh! (that's better).

[veiledsentiments]

Alot as one word. I have at least 4 friends on face book that do it all the time.

[claraschu]

I don't like seperate. If you can't spell "SePARate", you're not up to par.

BTW, from way back, Americans don't get "Jags", as far as I know. We don't call them jabs either. It's "shots" or vaccinations.

[AViewFromTheFridge]

I'm not annoyed by it as such, but have seen a lot of people writing upmost when they mean utmost. I can understand it actually, if they've never seen it written down.

I do the opposite - am a massive bookworm so know a lot of words that I've never heard and subsequently mispronounce them when I try to use them!

[Dorris83]

I always assumed that formal documents like CVs should be word perfect. My last boss used to ask my opinion on future candidates and I was always surprised to see that people had spelling errors in their CVs. The usual there/their errors.

I never knew that to say, they stand out to me like giant flashing obvious errors but my boss didn't really care.

But then again, she used to send emails written in text speak. Literally big, long, important emails to the whole company with sentences like: pls see attached the review of the tv spend planned for summer. i wud like to rationalise it with the sales forecast in the next budgeting meeting. Thnx

So basically grammar and writing correctly didn't bother her.
But it makes me cringe everytime.

But back to my question: Do people genuinely reject CVs for spelling errors (as I had previously assumed) or is it just ok to mess up basic grammar as it is so common no one cares anymore?!

[Dorris83]

Ps i haven't done any recruiting yet so haven't been in the position to accept or reject CVs based on grammatical errors, but I just assumed it was the first criteria one used?!

[Buzzardbird]

No 'inventory' is not pronounced the same as 'infantry'

[Amrapaali]

And its "Hear, Hear" if you are applauding someone. Not "Here, here"

Also, people, educate yourselves on Compliment and Complement.

I thought of something else that I wanted to put down now, but its slipped my mind. Getting old. Ah, just as well, I would have gone off on a full-on pedantic rant...

[WilsonFrickett]

Doris it depends on the job. I used to recruit for a copy-writing team and yes, in that situation I would mark down a CV for basic errors although I wouldn't have been allowed to reject it out of hand because of the way my company handled recruitment. We scored various areas and there was a score for presentation iirc. I am a freelancer now and so not bound by a big corporate's recruitment rules, so yes, if I was recruiting I would reject a CV if there were howlers.

This company was so hot on not discriminating that you weren't even allowed to use the standard 'did you find us OK?' icebreaker question as you walked to the interview room, in case you then discriminated on the basis a candidate lived very far away, or in a 'bad' area.

[Alliwantisaroomsomewhere]

I cannot understand confusing definitely and defiantly. I can understand (on a good day) definitely and definately.

Brought / bought: WTF??

Loose / lose: again, on a good day I will overlook this.

Should OF / Could OF / Would OF! OMFG!!!

[GrimmaTheNome]

The errors which derive from people not being able to talk properly are the most cringe-worthy (should of etc -though I rather like the 'doggy dog world' ).

Yesterday I checked through an important technical report for DH (he didn't write it but has to make sure it's correct). There were two occurrences of "data's" - not used as a possessive.