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?

Another one here who hates brought.

As in I’ve just brought some bread...who actually speaks like that

‘Would of’is my ultimate worst! I really have to stop myself replying to friends who say that in WhatsApp groups too.
Hollibobs as well as other twee bollocks words.

Alot. It’s two words, people. TWO.

Chester draws. Or Chester drawers. Is he a person? Are they drawers from Chester? Who knows what goes on in the minds of these people.

And don’t get me started on the recent explosion of the yourself, myself bollocks.

Walla.

It still makes me chuckle. I had to say it out loud before I understood what they had written!

I’ve actually seen “sleeeping with the angles” on a headstone.

"Naice" instead of nice - what's that all about?

SDTG

Scottish English has many grammatical quirks and pronunciations from Scots and Gaelic. It's just another form of English, like Indian English or US English and is not necessarily incorrect when it differs from your standard English. Personally, I would say that he's needing fed, etc.

This was made clear to us when reading English at university. We didn't just get literature but also linguistics, Old English, and Middle Scots and Middle English, as well as grammar and the history of the language.

I love the regional and national differences in language, @TooManyPaws - I enjoy learning where words or phrases come from, and I like learning new phrases. I haven’t picked up an accent, in 10 years of living in Scotland, but I have picked up some turns of phrase, that I love using.

I hate when people say ‘is’ when they should say ‘are’.

Irregardless

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius we do tend to use verbs differently here too - you're looking rather than you look, and so on so needs/is needing whatever isn't wrong. Another real Scottish pointer in grammar is something like 'did/do you not think' instead of 'didn't/don't you think'. As a Scot with an RP accent (most of the time), I enjoy these differences.

In total agreement with most of the peeves listed. It's easy to spot a typo - that's writing "teh" instead of "the". I also think you can cut people some slack with things like discrete/discreet as it's not something you write every day.

But there is NO excuse for their/there/they're or its/it's or your/you're errors.

I make my living as a writer and it works to my advantage that standards of literacy are slipping. One of my clients asks me to write product descriptions for furniture. Someone who thinks "luke at this gawjuss chester draws" isn't going to get the job.

Loose instead of lose drives me insane

Your not you're
There not their

Phased instead of fazed

Are instead of our. E.G. "Have you seen are new puppy?"

Apostrophes...
.
(the difference between
knowing your shit
and knowing your're shit.)

You all need to watch Alonzo Lerone - get a dictionary.

I can watch those videos for hours

Equiptment

I can't believe 'no' instead of 'know' hasn't come up yet. I'm so fed up of seeing people asking if anyone no's when such and such is open etc

Just stop reading posts that are scattered with illiteracies. I do.

Thankyou. Thank you, not thankyou, thank you very much.

I have a burning hatred for the word
Gawjous
I could poke people in the eye over it!!!!

Noah Fence,for no offence.Just seen it on Twitter just now.

Someone selling a mirrow on gumtree.. it was a mirror.