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Spellings that make you cringe

568 replies

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?

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polkadotpixie · 03/11/2018 00:46

People who say are instead of our...drives me nuts!

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TomPinch · 03/11/2018 01:26

Mathew.

The correct spelling has two Ts after the A, to reflect the pronunciation.

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hungryhippo90 · 03/11/2018 02:04

We have a Matthew. I get the right arse if it’s spelt with one T,
I’ve seen MAFYEW before. I think my DH was close to having a stroke.

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LustyBusty · 03/11/2018 02:19

My peeve is weary when someone means wary. "I got bitten by a dog so now I'm weary of them". NO, you are not exhausted by dogs due to the bite, you are nervous around them!!

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Bagofworries · 03/11/2018 02:21

Looser
Discusted/discusting

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 02:36

Our local Honda garage is offering reparations for 'curbed' wheels.

It's a big fancy proper sign. Not a chalkboard. It must have been through a few approvals, yet not one person has twigged.

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 02:38

And my favourite... The local pub to me years ago, 'excepted no responsibility' for any thefts in the car park.

I should have staged a theft.

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Blackness78 · 03/11/2018 02:42

Rest bite, instead of respite.

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 02:59

I should be banned from these topics. If I had a penny for every 'transgression' I came across... Fortunately, I'm old now and can live with the madness of others Grin

It doesn't grind my gears the way is used to. I just feel sad for people who think Chester Draws are a thing.

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 03:02

It* oh dear lord. Let the man without sin cast the first stone and all that.

And don't get me started on the whole gender identification thing. I'm a toaster. A red, shiny one. Confused

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LilMy33 · 03/11/2018 04:04

Discusting/disgusting
Collage/college
Defiantly/definitely

And my personal biggest spelling peeve: angles instead angels. As in “R.I.P Nan your* sleeping with the angles now”

*your instead you’re for added effect.

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MacosieAsunter · 03/11/2018 04:13

discusting
rediculous
tounge
farther - as in 'my farther said'
carnt

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FastWindow · 03/11/2018 04:18

Those poor people. Teach your kids every day if you have the chance.

Don't be the parent of the kid who can't distinguish between to, two and too. And when to comma.

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TheFuckfaceWhisperer · 03/11/2018 06:11

There was a thread the other week about learning to drive in a manual car or an automatic and about 80% of UK posters kept referring to their license. I was having palpitations

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Peaspleaselouise · 03/11/2018 06:36

They’re/there/their
Bought/brought
Excepted/accepted
Too/to

The list goes on.

I cringe every time I read the FB group classic phrase “delete if not aloud” Angry

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LottieLou90 · 03/11/2018 06:51

Skellington instead of skeleton.

My child dressed up as a skellington for Halloween (inserts picture of said child)

OMFG I saw it a lot over social media obviously for Halloween and one of them that posted is a teacher 🤦🏻‍♀️

I could understand if the child was dressed as Jack Skellington but they weren’t. They were a normal skeleton.

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HariboLecter · 03/11/2018 07:14

Ect instead of etc (unless they do mean Electroconvulsive therapy).

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RedDwarves · 03/11/2018 07:16

He's instead of his.

Hallmark of the bogan, that is.

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HariboLecter · 03/11/2018 07:16

Oh, and bomfire

On route

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Thisreallyisafarce · 03/11/2018 07:20

It's not really spelling, but "on a night" rather than "of a night"

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MsHopey · 03/11/2018 07:22

I looked back at my Facebook memories the other day and accidentally wrote constellation prize instead of consolation prize.
I was mortified and even though it was 7 years old I edited it immediately!

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BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 03/11/2018 07:26

Not quite the same thing, but I hate quirky spellings for shops especially using K instead of Q or C
Krazy Kuts
Kwik Katering
and the Kardashian spelling of Khloe and Kris

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Biancadelriosback · 03/11/2018 07:26

Carnt, Carnt Carnt.

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OwlBeThere · 03/11/2018 07:27

Mathew is a perfectly acceptable variant, from the french Mathieu.

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HariboLecter · 03/11/2018 07:31

Toherdoor
^When people write 'I see

@hanypanky04
I seen the name 'Jessykah' on my news feed today



Was that deliberate? Grin

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