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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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TrollTheRespawnJeremy · 17/10/2016 21:32

Fair impressed is a Scottish/Glaswegian thing.

You can be fair anything....

"I was fair puggled."
"He was fair gone" (NB: Different from 'far gone'.)

reallyanotherone · 17/10/2016 21:44

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acatcalledjohn · 17/10/2016 21:52

Troll, I stand corrected and have learnt something new.

reallyanotherone · 17/10/2016 22:03

I see "ano" for "i know" quite often.

Took me ages to work out...

Ohyesiam · 17/10/2016 22:35

Dh and I went for an intro talk at my daughters new school and one of the teachers said pacific instead of specific. My daughter said, yea, but he only teaches pe......

reallyanotherone · 17/10/2016 23:11

Ooh just seen a new one..

Bangle cats ..,

AnnieAutumnMouse · 17/10/2016 23:15

quite & quiet
I can understand that predictive text might put in the wrong one, and people not realise, but I noticed this well before PT appeared.
DH, DS and DD are all dyslexic, and there is definitely a difference between their errors and those of people who just don't proofread.
(OK, what error did I make and miss in that?)

KathArtic · 17/10/2016 23:15

Perhaps read what I have wrote and try and see how you...

Perhaps read what I have written and try to see how you...

and in speech, one, two, free, four

Tuktuktaker · 18/10/2016 05:21

reallyanotherone: Bangle cats? Is that something like "banjaxed"?

Oh, one that really gets my goat is "to give free reign" instead of "to give free rein". Aaagh. Wish I hadn't thought of that. Started my day off badly.

DaniBubbles · 18/10/2016 05:46

"Chest of draws" gives me the rage. Angry

Though there are some that make me giggle...
"Bowel of soup"
"I love the smell of his colon"
Grin

Chinnygirl · 18/10/2016 05:57

I'm from a different country and I'm sure that I make plenty of mistakes when I write in english but it hurts to see should of instead of should have. I see that mistake so much and on different websites. Have is a verb, how can you miss that?

To me it sometimes looks like people are raping their own language. I'd be mortified if I would make such a mistake in my own language.

ThatsNotEvenAWord · 18/10/2016 06:00

I saw someone described as a 'diamond in the rust' the other day Grin

Tuktuktaker · 18/10/2016 07:07

When people write: "tow" the line instead of "toe" the line. The visuals are all wrong Grin

Tuktuktaker · 18/10/2016 07:13

Oh, my, just googled "Bangle cats". Love it (though not a big cat lover).

Lweji · 18/10/2016 07:25

Chinnygirl

I agree with you.

Still, it makes us, foreigners, look good. Grin

Gran22 · 18/10/2016 07:44

All of the above plus where instead of were, as in 'they where going out'. In speech, we was, he were. It's we were, he was FGS!

A recent letter to parents from DGD's teacher recently used 'there' instead of 'their' repeatedly.

Rabidu · 18/10/2016 07:54

I have (well educated) friends on fb, who insist on writing 'Gawjus ' I'm assuming instead of gorgeous.
Drives. Me. Mad

CoffeeAndOranges · 18/10/2016 08:37

I had a Scottish colleague from the borders area who said 'this needs done', 'the equipment needs cleaned' etc, so I understand the regional use of this construction, but it really bloody irritates me to see 'need gone asap' on Facebook selling sites. We don't say that down here in Yorkshire, it just sounds weird and quite frankly telling us you want rid of your item is not going to make me any more likely to buy it if I don't want it, is it? In fact, if I see 'need gone' on somethings I'm much more likely to scroll on by!

'Gamboling addiction' is the best one so far Grin

BillyDaveysDaughter · 18/10/2016 08:46

I knew someone who kept writing "I'm sick to deaf of everyone."

"I call shenganins" is another one.

Tuktuktaker · 18/10/2016 09:04

Just spotted "fowl language" - not in the context of talking about poultry (or paltry, as I have also seen written foully.)

jayisforjessica · 18/10/2016 09:14

Chinnygirl ...probably not a good enough reason to use the word "rape". Sorry. That's one that irks me, right up there with comparing people to Hitler/nazis. They're butchering language sure but it just isn't on par with those sorts of things.

PineappleExpress · 18/10/2016 09:57

I hate it when people write how they speak. I'd never seen it until I moved to Newcastle.

A nar = I know
Gan yem = going home
A divent/divnt nar = I don't know
Ect ect ::sniggers::

Took me months to figure out what the hell people were trying to say.

Chic instead of chick Angry

All the other ones mentioned here annoy me, and there is a massive difference between mocking people with dyslexia and finding people's ignorance of their own language irritating.

KoalaDownUnder · 18/10/2016 11:00

A friend, about my ex-boyfriend: 'Don't put him up on a pedal stool'.

FurryDogMother · 18/10/2016 12:15

My favourite one - gleaned from Mumsnet some time back is 'dire rear'. I use it often now - well, as often as is necessary, anyway :)

Comtesse · 18/10/2016 12:56

Carmel instead of caramel - that is just irritating and one of the reasons why Pinterest is so annoying because every other damn thing is carmelised....

Also poncy idiots who write "viola" when they mean "voila". Oh dear, don't try and do foreign if you are going to spell it wrong (or at least autocorrect it wrongly).