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I'm being very unreasonable but

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Unicorncatsack · 17/10/2016 08:24

I'm on a Facebook mum's group and people KEEP misspelling "choking" as "chocking". WHY?!?! This spelling mistake doesn't even make sense.

You get a whole post spelled completely correctly and then - "chocking/chocked/chock"

It's giving me the rage.

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ThumbWitchesAbroad · 19/10/2016 11:11

YES!! Finally.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 19/10/2016 11:18

The various misspellings of 'honey' really fuck me off, 'hunni' in particular. For fuck's sake, it's not even shortened, it's just spelled in a really irritating way. I had to go on at DH for MONTHS before he stopped using it, he insisted it was a colloquialism that was somehow more 'affectionate' than the proper spelling. I insisted he stop it before my own affection towards him was severely compromised!

Also, 'huni'. No. I always pronounce it 'hue-ni' in my head.

FRETGNIKCUF · 19/10/2016 11:20

People that say "for shits and giggles" can get the fuck out of my life.

wasonthelist · 19/10/2016 12:07

Asterix rather than asterisk (quite funny but accidentally!)

I used to say and write that all the time, until someone at work corrected me.

Unlike on here, I didn't immediately say "you are a filthy cunt-faced fascist bastard" - I took note, and was pleased that I wouldn't be getting it wrong in future.

SirRodneyEffing · 19/10/2016 12:38

An ex used to send cringey messages "I want to put my arms round your waste", "I want to kiss your waste"

I assume he meant waist, unless he was into some seriously gross sexual practices

ayeokthen · 19/10/2016 12:40

SirRodneyEffing oh dear Grin

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 19/10/2016 12:55

SirRodney, an ex of mine got with a DP who used to type 'waste' too - she's a teacher!

Lottahugz · 19/10/2016 14:18

YABU if it gives you that much rage, then bow out Hmm

Unicorncatsack · 19/10/2016 14:24

No thanks lotta, I enjoy it.

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Unicorncatsack · 19/10/2016 14:27

I actually prefer "Hun" to "hon" even though I know it's totally wrong. "Hon" winds me up.

"Hunni" can fuck off though. I also hate it when random women on Facebook selling groups call me Hun, as in "how much do u want for it Hun xxx"

I don't display that much affection towards my best friends, let alone some random stranger on Facebook.

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thetemptationofchocolate · 19/10/2016 14:29

Hun does make me think of Attila though. Not a friendly sort of chap IIRC.

shelbie1313 · 19/10/2016 14:34

Urgh. Gets me too. One mum I know through school has a "gawjus" boy. He's gawjus this and gawjus that. It bugs the hell out of me.

ayeokthen · 19/10/2016 14:59

I can't cope with insincere endearments at the best of times, but Hun gives me the rage Angry

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 19/10/2016 15:08

thetemptation, I have a neighbour called Attila - I'm always very careful not to address him as 'hun' in conversation Wink

Tuktuktaker · 19/10/2016 15:11

Lullaby23, I had to stop myself from tweeting a response about the poor teaching of languages in English schools to that one, as it was about something completely different. But it infuriated me.

MancMama · 19/10/2016 18:00

My pet peeve is your and you're. If I defriended the number of people I see on FB writing your when it should be you're I'd have no friends left.

Oh and apostrophes! Pizza's! shudders

MrsHathaway · 19/10/2016 18:09

I just found another one.

Formular - for infant milk. My phone doesn't even know it. Who says formulaaaaah anyway?

Fancythat69 · 19/10/2016 18:20

Havent rtft so dont know if this has already been mentioned - every october people on my facebook start talking about carving "punkins" (pumpkins) gives me the absolute rage every time i see it!

Unicorncatsack · 19/10/2016 18:40

PUNKINS?! What fresh hell????

I've just seen "chock" and "trickle treating" in the same Facebook post.

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QuackDuckQuack · 19/10/2016 19:08

To think that I told DD not to call them jack-o'-lanterns as that is definitely caught from too much YouTube. She could have been calling them pumpkins.

QuackDuckQuack · 19/10/2016 19:08

Obviously autocorrected from punkins.

Moomichi · 19/10/2016 19:33

Round here they use why instead of while 😡😡😡😡

JosephineMaynard · 19/10/2016 20:50

I thought that jack o'lanterns was a traditional term for pumpkins (or alternatively turnips or swedes) that had been hollowed and carved and turned into a Halloween lantern with a little candle?

reallyanotherone · 19/10/2016 20:57

I've just seen "dubble"!

As in: parked on dubble yellow lines.

Also: discusting.

MissMooMoo · 20/10/2016 08:20

A jack-o-lantern is the name for a carved out pumpkin with a candle inside.