I'm being very unreasonable but

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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.

Skellington/skeleton grrrrrrrrrrr.

Less/fewer makes me MMAAAADDDD!

MrsRyan, proud of helping people to understand that dialect and regional speech/language should be respected as much as as standard speech/language. You know, so they won't mock people for saying things 'wrong', or make an arse of themselves correcting something that is correct in context.

And I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the person I explained to was not embarrassed.

But since you clearly haven't read my other posts, I'm just going to stop engaging with you now.

But MrsRyan we're doing it on a thread specifically for that. I'm not going on other threads and correcting people, that would be twattish.

Like I said I have dyslexia myself and it helps me to laugh at myself!!!

Skellington?!?

lose/loose is also a constant mistake I see

Holy mother of god, SKELLINGTON?!

Just wondering what conversations you are having that choking is mentioned that often! [Grin]

Isn't there some special corner for you all to run off to?

MrsRyanGosling15 This is the corner. You don't get to have it both ways. If you want us to run off into the "special corner" to do [thing you object to], you don't get to follow us into the corner and chasten us for doing [thing we came to the corner to do since you didn't want us doing it over there].

As others have said, dyslexia and other learning disabilities make people MORE conscious of their mistakes, and auto-correct and spell check have made it possible for people who really want to, to post error free. Witness your own post. It's error free, as far as I can see. Dyslexia or no dyslexia, you clearly took the time and the trouble to write/type it correctly.

This thread is about people who are willfully ignorant about their ignorance. This thread is about people who don't bother using auto-correct and spell check. This thread is about people who don't care enough to try and write/type correctly. Ergo, this post is not about you.

Oh, and as for the defiantly/definately/definitely conundrum? I got taught to remember the correct spelling thusly: You're definitely an ahole if you put an a in definitely :P

SemiNormal, I am lolling here at 'RIP Nanna, my very own guardian angle in the sky, with all the other angles now nanna' ... it just never seems appropriate to correct them.
All my pet hates have already been mentioned, and some more

sundance

It's mostly a Facebook group for weaning I see it on!

Devine instead of divine - very prevalent on tripadvisor reviews for some reason. I tend to ignore anything else they've written if I spot that!

I've got an old school friend who invents words I would expect teenagers to use while posting on FB.

'So emosh!'

'Isn't she just adorbs?!'

And my personal favourite, 'Just totes presh!'

She means precious, FYI...

It makes me fucking shudder. She's 30 years old, married with kids and she does an incredibly responsible job involving, y'know, radioactive waste management...

Skellington

My DS has playfully called skeletons this ever since the first time he saw Nightmare Before Christmas :) It's become sort of a family thing. But he knows how to spell it correctly, don't worry! We all do!

Here's another good one - for all intensive purposes.
I mean I get that it sounds like that, but, how on Earth do they see it written down and not realize how nonsensical it is??

do NOT get me started on the spelling on Facebook!

so many times i have to stop myself being a keyboard warrior/spelling teacher...

Weather/Whether
We'll instead of well
no instead of know
the list is endless and i'd bore you all with it

Point of order on the we'll/well thing. Often autocorrect has made a mockery of me there, insisting I want we'll when I actually want well!

Rediculous annoys me. Loose instead of lose. And don't get me started on there, their, they're. AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

What I love even more though, is on internet forums, where someone criticises another's grammar, whilst making a grammatical error of their own. I nearly wrote 'there' for the craic but restrained myself

"Boak" no no it's "boke" it's such a small thing but I rage inwardly every time...

Did I make one emma???

I don't mind most of these, especially if they could be autocorrect fails. Things like "skellington" make me smile because they almost sound better than the real word. But one that really, really winds me up for some reason is...

OPPPS

instead of "Oops"

Grrr!

I hate the use of probable instead of probably.

"Hey sweaty"

And loveeeee, shouldn't it be loooove.

plimsolls That reminds me of an anecdote a Crossroads actor told once many years ago.

The script said a particular character was 'hoovering purposefully in the background' behind the main actors in a scene. It caused problems with the noise of the hoover and it being distracting to the main action. The Director had words with the writers about why the hoovering was so important. Turns out it wasn't. It was typo and she should have been hovering in the background

There's a great example on this thread of a mistake that irritates me but I am trying not to correct it.

Here's an example:
"I've ran all the way".

No no no! It's "I've run", or "I ran". Annoys me in speech too.

The English language is full of spelling inconsistencies so I don't mind so much if a spelling mistake sounds right. But when it makes no sense phonetically either it really grates.

TheWrath Really, as a nation and possibly as a species we are getting thicker and thicker.

No we're not, it's just that with the internet more peope have a platform to communicate in written form.