I'm being very unreasonable but

[Unicorncatsack]

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.

I always struggle with the correct spelling of unnecessary - thank heavens for spell check. At work, I often type 'cleint' instead of 'client' and spell check doesn't recognise it as an error.

It's not spelling errors that are so comical though, it's when whole words are written phonetically and (presumably) the person responsible has no idea.

Someone on my facebook has a selling page, she puts apsolutely in almost every post

I've got much better at being able to understand mistakes since DD's year in reception and the target of 'phonically plausible spelling'. It's cute at 4.

Another selling page one- candle harbours!

Candelabras?

Think that's what it was meant to be- though I would have called it a candlestick personally!

THROUGH, I'm with you on that one. It's just lazy.
Another one that gets on my nerves is when they pronounce the word community as 'keemmunity'. Aaaaargh there's NO 'E' IN COMMUNITY!!!!!

I'm case anyone cares, even 'candelarbras' is also wrong. Candelabra is already plural. The singular is candelabrum.

Tbf 'candle harbours' sounds like the sort of thing the autocorrect on my phone would come up with if I'd hit the wrong button and hadn't noticed!

Candelabra and candlesticks are not the same, are they?

I always thought that a candlestick held a single candle, and a candelabra held multiple candles.

Ignore me. Although I always associate one with a single candle and a candelabrum with several.

Lweji - re. the spelling things wrong - I fear, very much fear, that it is a product of advancing age.

Spelling correctly has always been my only inbuilt gift - and in the last couple of years, possibly as a result of being on FB and MN etc. entirely too much, I've noticed that I'm making some of the simple errors (like using the wrong "there", ffs!, or the wrong "to") - this NEVER used to happen to me!! But suddenly they pop up. Mostly I catch them before posting, but not always and then I'm mortified for myself.

Hoping that it doesn't get any worse...

Loose instead of lose! It winds me up every time!

I can touch type and it's interesting that I sometimes find myself typing the wrong word even when I definitely know the right way - like the boarder/border example. I catch most of them, but I'm sure the odd one must have escaped at some point.

This is a different phenomenon from carrying on typing while talking to someone and typing in random words from the conversation.

lweji and josephine that's what I meant- the items for sale only held 1 candle each, so even if they had spelled candelabra right, they would have been wrong!

Thank God I've found you lot! My people

I've also seen fopar. It took me a LONG time to work out what was actually meant. But "defiantly" and "mummy's" are the most frequent teeth-itchers for me. FFS, one is a completely different word! And the other is infant or at most junior school level understanding of how to form a plural...

I know what you mean! The one that enraged me is "I need some advise". No!!!! Either "please advise" or "give me your advice". Grr!

Thanks everyone for giving me an enormous laugh this afternoon. Found this post absolutely hilarious (and cringe-worthy) in equal measure.
There's often Chester Draws for sale near me

A few weeks ago there was an advertisement at the top of this page for a retirement village in a 'sort after location'. I'm also amused when someone is 'sat on their phone' instead of joining in the conversation - sounds very uncomfortable.

My very lovely friend found her 'fortee' today.

I don't love her any less but it did make me .

Cracking up at "sort after location"

My favourite is still camel Farge though.

On the menu in our work canteen today:

Quasidilla

It was seemingly a tortilla

On another forum today "wahla"

Quesadilla is a type of tortilla though. Quasidilla is a brave attempt at the correct spelling. Still should have looked it up before putting it on a menu though.

I was on Rightmove just yesterday and I saw 'sort after location' in a house description.
Defiantly
I brought this at the shops
Chester draws
Loosing my marbles
The list is endless!