Spellings that make you cringe

[jarhead123]

I know some people can't help it, I get that.

BUT I've just seen a photo on FB of a Mum & daughter and someone has comment 'so pressures' - I am assuming they mean precious!!

Any other classics you've seen?

Have seen I’m being used as an ‘escape goat’ and when’s the ‘manorial’ took me a while to get they meant memorial

Toherdoor you are totally right 

I also have a friend who says an instead of and.

More grammatical than spelling...

They should have went...
We done it...

When people add an extra letter in, like "carn't" instead of "can't" 🤯

Loose for lose
Rediculous
Devine

He’s instead of his

Is there someone here who is really good with grammar? I consider my own to be good but there is one thing I see on MN so often, which always confuses me:

The kids need fed.
The sheets need changed.
The dog needs walked.

Is this actually correct? Shouldn't it be feeding/changing/walking or "need to be.."?

A lot of what has already been said.
Also supposably instead of supposedly.
Worse/worst confusion - usually as ‘the worse thing about it was...’ but I saw it the other way round today. ‘Up all night with a cold, made worst by the fact my baby has it too’.

During a heated debate on FB, someone called a man a chauffeurnist, instead of chauvinist!

@SpitefulMidlifeAnimal - I believe that you are correct that ‘needs fed/needs walked’ etc are grammatically incorrect. I only came across this usage when we moved to Scotland, so I suspect it is a regional thing.

I am generally a bit of a grammar pedant, but have been known to use this ‘needs done’ type of phrase for the fun of watching dh froth at the mouth when I use it.

POI:

Scotland is not a region.

@dottypotter - ante means before, whereas anti means against - so ante-natal and anti-natal have very different meanings - before birth and against birth.

I was sat there is not grammatically correct but it is informal usage is some parts of the UK. You should not assume people do not know the correct usage which they will use in formal contexts.

There is a car wash place near me called ‘shiney’ Also hate loose instead of loose as in ‘I want to loose weight’ no! Also of instead of have as in could of, should of and would of.....

“I was sat there...”

@SilentIsla - I know Scotland is not a region - what I meant was this is a dialect phrase used in some regions or countries of the UK - I thought that was obvious.

@SpitefulMidLifeAnimal - I think that's a dialect thing though, most likely said by Scottish people.

I suggest you are more careful when you are making references.

...by SOME Scottish people?

There. That’s better.

OK. If that makes you feel better

DisCusting

Why must people generalise so much? It’s lazy.

Discrete and discreet are used wrongly by many.

”A region is a large area of land that is different from other areas of land, for example because it is one of the different parts of a country with its own customs and characteristics, or because it has a particular geographical feature.”

I would suggest that this definition of region, from the Collins Dictionary would seem to suggest that it is not incorrect to refer to Scotland as a region. It is, after all, part of the country of the United Kingdom as well as being a country.

I therefore think you are being somewhat picky to object to it in such a snippy manner, @SilentIsla.