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?

Scotland is a country. The end.

And, for the record, I was generalising because I don’t know if the ‘needs done’ format is unique to Scotland or is used in other parts of the UK, or other English speaking countries. I am sure if I had stated incorrectly that it was a purely Scottish idiom, someone would have jumped down my throat as promptly as you did.

I see woant on Facebook from one person.

Also bare with me, it's bear ffs. As in I can't bear it or too much to bear

Affect and effect happen a lot.

Plus everything else that had been mentioned.

I am guilty of substituting less and fewer though

To be truly pedantic, I was using 'Scottish' as an adjective to describe those people who are most likely to say 'needs fed' etc. It doesn't mean all Scottish people. But crack on with the nit-picking.

Awesome pedantry, @BIWI - I salute you. You definitely need saluted!

I would have thought on a thread such as this, people would be interested in accuracy.

🙄

Today on a cat adoption website I saw the words "she is not spade" SPADE FFS it's Spayed 😑

Affect and effect
Practice and practise

Posts like this, repeated week after bleeding week, make me cringe.

I see bear and bare used wrongly on Mumsnet quite a lot. It is often unintentionally amusing.

I know! There do seem to be threads such as these on a weekly basis, at least.

'Pacifically' when they mean 'specifically'. This video made me laugh though.

I haven’t read the entire thread but I imagine somebody had already dealt with chester draws, drawering and I text.

...has already...

Pacifically is a brilliant one!

Bare with
and
Ect
and
Phased

Along with most of these, I also see asked instead of assed/arsed. As in 'I can't be asked cooking'.

Plenty of people on here ask us to bare with them. No thanks, it's far too cold at this time of year.

Ect is awful, as is the mispronunciation of the wrong complete form “excetra”.

Expresso instead of espresso.

disCusting lol

Phased as opposed to fazed is quite common on Mumsnet.

Gawjus instead of gorgeous makes me rage !

Reminds me of Little Britain.