Advance apologies - a spelling one!

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Okay, I'm being one of those posters, and am thereby effectively basting myself and willingly stepping onto the grill for a flaming.

But: when did this "ect" business start?! Every third post I read these days is "ect" this and "ect" that. It's "etc", people! E-T-C! For "et cetera"! I'm developing a nervous twitch every time I see it, and am actually going to pop before too long.

I'm done. Unleash the pedant-strength flame throwers.

I'm sure Princess Margaret looked disdainfully at many a humble abode and trilled 'good manors cost nothing'.

I know, Maid, I know. But we're talking about my livelihood, here.

So edit, the next time the debate comes up - it is frequent in my line of work - I can say that a proper editor told me 'no hyphen'?

That is correct.

Your work sounds about as much fun as mine! (I am serious. I bloody love my job.)

Love this...feel I am OCD sometimes when "clever"people do it. Misuse od DEFIANTLY is my utter bugbear. They clearly they are trying make make a strong statement about "DEFINITELY" not doing or doing something but the context shift is huge when they do not correct. Grrr. I do realise it is amusing. A friend of mine sent a New Year Tweet , sober, I must add, stating " I am defiantly only speaking to people on social networking who use correct grammar and spelling in 2015".

But I suppose that might be a defiant act if she'd spent 2014 feeling obligated to engage with everyone including those who'd committed crimes against spelling and grammar.

Ha I said misuse "od" ...clearly meant "of". Sorry on phone on train.
My favourite is...
Irony is when someone writes "Your an idiot". Learn grammar. Insult properly.

Squoosh, yes agree, the potential ambiguity amused me.

Just about everything mentioned on this thread so far is on my list of pet hates.

Would OF, should OF and could OF are totally cringe worthy an virtually make me not want to bother reading the post.

Ect for ET Cetera is awful, an I do wonder when the two-word phrase a lot actually contracted to alot.

When did definitely ever become defiantly (with a totally different meaning anyway), or definately, which isn't even a word.

I am actually fairly at home reading Pedants' Corner.

Seriously though, I hate the way proper spelling is deteriorating.

I'm not perfect. I make typos and can be unsure of the odd spelling like anyone else. I like to think I do make a good attempt at being correct though.

I did make a couple of typos. Phone seems to want to autocorrect and to an for some reason and I didn't spot it on my proof read.

We NEED an edit facility!!

I think ect is used because people say ekcetera.

In a similar manner expresso for espresso.

Not me, obviously.

I received a letter from my daughter's school outlining key topics for the half term. One of them was 'the proper use of apostrophe's'. Really.

Alot is my pet peeve.

I discovered i have been spelling a word wrong for years this week. Im quite embarrassed by the whole thing. Although i maintain my spelling makes more sense.

There is nothing wrong with OP's post! Both commas are absolutely fine where they are - they are where you would naturally pause when reading the sentence out loud, so help to make meaning clear.

They are not Oxford commas. Am oxford comms is a comma before the last item in a list: apples, bananas, and pears.

Phased and fazed are different words with different meanings.

It's not 'on route', it's 'en route'.

I see 'vise-versa' all the time these days.

Another one for me is brought instead of bought. That drives me nuts. Not even remotely the same meaning.

People who say proply instead so properly!
Especially if they are reprimanding someone for the way they speak!

Those people probably also say proberly instead of probably too, or except instead of accept.

What was it, Calleigh? Enquiring minds need to know.

Teetotal. Ive been writing teatotal, as in you drink tea rather than gin. What's not dribking alcohol got to do with golf?! My way makes far more sense...

Someone on MN posted this a few years ago and I sill love it:

A lot

My pet peeve is 'alright'. Grrr.

Been spared this so far! But how annoying ect

Yep, teatotal works just as well as teetotal. Goodness knows where the word comes from... Tee for temperance?

GoringBit probably just T to emphasise the first T in total, although it might've been the guy just had a stutter.

I'm seeing 'are' instead of 'our' more and more. 'Should of' instead of 'should have' really rips my knitting, and as someone mentioned earlier, they're not 'draws' they're 'drawers'.