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I'm being very unreasonable but

383 replies

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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QuackDuckQuack · 20/10/2016 09:04

Jack-o-lantern is a regional thing. It isn't really used round here. That's why I'd prefer DD to say pumpkin.

SpaceUnicorn · 20/10/2016 09:27

Trickle treating

Shock

How can you get that wrong?! It makes no sense whatsoever. Do they not think about what's coming out of their mouth and how it fails to relate to the activity under discussion?

SunsetOnTheHorizon · 20/10/2016 09:49

Gŕrrr! 'Shoking instead of shocking?' Why o why? And 'wiquid' instead of 'wicked'. Yep thats a real mistake!!!

acatcalledjohn · 20/10/2016 13:18

Duz...

I'm being very unreasonable but
Emmageddon · 20/10/2016 13:39

acatcalledjohn what the dickens is that thing mum duznt want?

acatcalledjohn · 20/10/2016 13:54

It's a swissvoice epure cordless phone.

You aren't the only person to ask.

Tuktuktaker · 20/10/2016 14:18

I know this may be a bit OTT, but the misplacing of the apostrophe in Hallowe'en is another one that annually enrages me.
Using the past form of a verb instead of the past participle in the perfect tense (I have sang, for example) throws me every time I see it.

FurryLittleTwerp · 20/10/2016 14:29

I think Punkin is a black American alternative spelling / pronunciation

reallyanotherone · 20/10/2016 14:35

I think Punkin is a black American alternative spelling / pronunciation

Punkin was my 2 year old dc's pronounciation until he learned to say it properly....

FurryLittleTwerp · 20/10/2016 14:36

Ha ha yes - my DS too Smile

CrohnicallyPregnant · 20/10/2016 21:04

I've just seen another one- DH was pouring over the council website.

I felt sorry for the poor, wet computer!

MarklahMarklah · 20/10/2016 23:35

Local selling page (again)
"I seen a chewawer runing lose. Anyone no who's it is?"

Mamagin · 21/10/2016 00:14

Them things.
Ill eagles (illegals)
Camel flarge.
Bottem shelf (this was on a school hand out)
And, seen in Asda yesterday ....

I'm being very unreasonable but
OnceThereWasThisGirlWho · 21/10/2016 02:31

Camel flarge

Kokosjumping · 21/10/2016 05:19

CAMEL FLARGE????
GrinGrinGrin

Tuktuktaker · 21/10/2016 06:32

OK, camel flarge on a par with gambolling addiction! This is so good! Thank you!

Tuktuktaker · 21/10/2016 07:17

Per say.
ect.
People trying to be Shakespearean or something and writing "Me thinks" instead of "methinks".

I'm on a role! Grin (Deliberate mistake, just in case you thought otherwise!)

FurryLittleTwerp · 21/10/2016 07:22

"I seen a chewawer runing lose. Anyone no who's it is?"

Bloody Hell! SIX mistakes in ELEVEN words Shock

acatcalledjohn · 21/10/2016 07:58

Chewawer

HmmGrin

Mamagin · 21/10/2016 08:39

Yep, as in 'he was wearing a camel flarge jacket'
I used to work in a call centre and we collected spelling mistakes - until The Management found out and we were beaten severely.
The only other gem that I can remember - 'Amber Lynn' - as in the second wife of Henry the eighth.

Emmageddon · 21/10/2016 08:49

Amber Lynn, a very modern name for one of Henry VIII's wives - was it a child's mistake?

Camel Flarge wins the thread though.

FurryLittleTwerp · 21/10/2016 08:52

WTF is a Flarge anyway???

Basicbrown · 21/10/2016 08:54

Don't correct or question though as you sound like a massive patronising twat.

As long as it is a real error rather than an imagined one (split infinitives for example) I would much rather someone told me.

I thought tomorrow had 2 M's for years lol if only someone had pointed that one out. And I now work for a publisher Grin

Lweji · 21/10/2016 09:06

The brain is funny, though.
On another thread, at one point, as I was writing border control, I actually started writing boarder control. As I read it, I thought: how stupid, but did I also write boarder control on an earlier post (just a few minutes before)?
And I had. Blush

Reading people's typos and spelling mistakes doesn't help. The errors become normal. Sad

plimsolls · 21/10/2016 09:13

I've seen fopar on someone's Twitter before. Took me ages to figure out what they meant...... Embarrassing social mistake.