If you're going to over use the word methinks you spell it correctly

[goodnessgracious]

Aibu to start to hate the word methinks. Used in Facebook status updates too frequently by people who can't spell it.

Here here

It's discussting

If you want to get properly enraged you should have a look at pets for sale on Gumtree.
Lots of people selling chahwawas and spanials. In Scotland, there are even 'Cockier Spanials' for sale.
If you are going to ask £1200 plus for a puppy at least spell the breed correctly!

An ex work colleague went to a wedding. She has posted some pictures she took to their wall "Some pix of use I took"

She also puts ante for ain't

metinks ur ovatinkin it

k?

Is neone sellin a Chester draws??

More worryingly, I've seen this a lot.

My cousin 'carnt' do lots of things. I'm sitting on my hands when I read her posts. I file her under the 'grammar Nazi' list.

The attention seeking list is always fun

Posts dramatic photo of someone in a&e, 30 comments of 'omg hun r u ok' are subsequently ignored. Temptation to post 'are you dead yet?' Is enormous.

Posts 'can't believe this is happening to me'. Another dozen 'r u ok?' Comments which conclude in 'I'll inbox you'

Then we have the foodies. I don't need to see your every meal or drink from Starbucks.

I don't use Facebook much, it probably shows.

I hate he's for his. They go to the effort of placing the apostrophe when surely they can see it makes no sense. Someone on my fb this week.

'Taking my boy out to stretch he's legs'

Stretch he is legs?!Er, what.

Someone also went out to buy 'Lots of lovely new cloths pics to follow' . I hope these bloody dishcloths are worth my suspense.

I did actually respond to a post once where somebody had put 'I'm not ironing cloths anymore I hate it'.

I put something like 'You iron your cloths?!Really?!'

Sorry though, must OF should OF had OF still makes my teeth itch more than anything else.

Show me someone who writes "Methinks" and I'll show you an arsehole.

Also someone who writes "been" for "being".

I woke up to a rediculous Facebook post this morning

Icimoi 'Been' for 'being' drives me INSANE. As does 'his' for 'he's'. I can feel my blood pressure rising just typing it!

Wide birth had mem laughing, and free reign.

I think some Anglophiles would argue that on route is a perfectly acceptable translation of en route and that using the French expression is pretentious.

We'll all after do something about this.

I have also seen lots of Chester draws for sale.

here here, OP

I saw this in Wilkinson's recently...

www.wilko.com/photo-albums/wilko-photo-album-memo-multi/invt/0299957

Anyone missing an apostrophe? There are loads to spare here.

A lot of this is just laziness and people not bothering to think about what they're saying. Makes me so mad!!!

I've seen a lot of 'generally' instead of 'genuinely' lately and my boss used to say that ALL the time. LAZY!!! Either 1) you aren't pronouncing the word 'genuinely' properly, and your lazy lips are making it sound like 'generally', or 2) you are not thinking about what you are trying to say/write and the different meanings of the 2 words.

Ahh I could go on forever. Also people who say '1) yadda yadda and B) yadda yadda' haha

My posts are scattered with these mistakes, especially on MN, they only make me cringe when I'm the one responsible. Just read someone's 'floorless argument' and it made me feel a little sisterly appreciation, a little less alone.

I'm still laughing over 'ball shit', and I fully intend to start using it regularly

Another pet hate: spelling 'honey' as 'hunni/hunny'. WHY? It's not even a shorter version of the word!

I just had to Google "free rein / reign"

The latter could make sense surely? Tell me I am not mad. Rein is figurative right? Reign is more literal albeit still not correct but it's not complete nonsensical

I think I'd let someone live for this one.

Also "on route" - I wouldn't hold that against someone.

'Free reign' annoys me, but the meaning of the metaphor is clear to me as I ride horses.

There is a whole website somewhere dedicated to phrases that have been misspelled so as to mean something entirely new. 'Free reign' and 'wide birth' are good examples. But I can't for the life of me find it.

'Cologne' is quite a tricky word to spell...

snort!