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Spellings that make you cringe
jarhead123 · 02/11/2018 22:28
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?
CoalTit · 17/11/2018 07:46
The ones I see all the time on mumsnet:
loose for lose
reigns for reins
who's for whose
dependant
are all understandable.
Discrete for discreet winds me up because I always think people believe they're using a British spelling of discreet and don't know they're two different words with different meanings
.Rachie1973 · 18/11/2018 08:51
Discusting - if you’re spelling it like that, you’re saying it wrong too!
And local to us is a takeaway that has clearly spent a lot of money on a big store frontage sign. It’s huge and backlit.
It has the name of the shop and a proud announcement that they cater for ‘fine dinning’.
MarklahMarklah · 18/11/2018 12:54
An overhead mis-spelling when I was in hospital having DD. Woman in the bed across from me had a newborn DD and was talking to the midwife about what she was naming her child.
New mother: "I'm calling her after my mum, Priscilla."
Midwife, pen poises to write: "That's lovely, how are you spelling it?"
Woman:"P-E-R-S....um no,....P-E-S...."
IchWill · 20/11/2018 22:08
Also, my dad had a mate in the 70s who'd been given the task of registering the birth of his and his DW's new DS. They'd decided to call him Dwaine.
Dad's mate trots off to the register office and goes about the process, when the registrar asked to confirm the spelling of the baby boy's name. My dad's mate then realised he didn't know how to spell it.
He though for a moment and replied to the registrar, phonetically and said something like "D.U.R.W.A.Y.N.E." (I can't recall the exact spelling, it was either that or Duhwayne, Derwayne!)
Yep, true story, I often wondered if the lad changed his name or at least the spelling in later life.
applesauce1 · 20/11/2018 22:35
Incorrect use of past progressive for "to sit" and "to stand" grates on me. "I was sat" and "I was stood" seem to be more common than the correct form now. I even read it in a book.
People also don't know the difference between "to lay" and "to lie".
I am definitely being unreasonable in being irritated by these things. I wish I didn't notice. Teaching Y6 grammar is a wonderful outlet.
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