To be so irritated by this common spelling mistake

[CaptainCabinets]

I’ve noticed about five different people in the last few days saying ‘rest bite’ when they mean respite.

It’s making my fucking teeth itch!

My DS teacher emailed me, and wrote that DD was not “excepting” help from her TA. If she’d “except” help her work would be so much better.

Not if the TA spells like the teachers!

The otherwise dog friendly pub where my other DD works has a sign on the toilets saying “no dogs aloud”.

I guess they can go in to the toilets then, as long as they don’t woof!

"It would never occur to me to think that I would have to spell the word practice in this context to anyone"

Practise is the verb and practice is the noun, but I think both are spelt practice in the US. I think it's understandable for people to mix them up.

I think that many people can't spell or understand basic grammar. However it is only due to social media and online forums that this becomes obvious.

I would say that the best way to learn to spell is to read more books. My son was an avid reader from a young age, but his problem was that he could not pronounce some of the less common words. He could spell them and understand the meaning but had never heard them spoken so would say them incorrectly.

The best way to learn to spell is still, I think, to read more books.

*My DDs teacher

I notice a lot but I don't think of myself as so superior that I would comment, correct or actually start the gazillionth thread on the subject. It feels a little like pointing at someone and laughing at school because they made a mistake.

He's rather than his

And the reverse too! e.g. "His going to go to work tomorrow".

I don't understand the thought process. If you think "belonging to him" = "he's", do you really think that "belonging to her" = "she's"? And if you think the shortening of "He is" is "His", do you think that the short form of "She is" is "Her" or "Shis"?

People on MN always claim that raising this type of issue shows people think of themselves as superior, and they get extraordinarily aggressive about it. Yet they never raise the same concerns at the endless threads pointing and sneering at other people's housekeeping, cleanliness, driving skills etc.

My pet hate is "balling my eyes out".

Bawling. It's BAWLING.

Three I've noticed on MN particularly- loose instead of lose, defiantly instead of definitely, and more recently discrete instead of discreet.

The last of these I can kind of understand if you've only heard it said out loud but the first two aren't even pronounced the same!

Ugh in work I used to see "I was just wandering how much it will be to..." 🙄

Writing ''ect' instead of 'etc' and 'visa versa' instead of 'vice versa'.

'Curb' instead of 'kerb'

'Defiantly' instead of 'definitely'.

And many, many more!

It’s UTMOST. NOT UPMOST.

Brought instead of bought drives me crazy. There is actually a YouTuber - who SAYS brought instead of bought when she's speaking!! I like watching her so much but I can't bear it every time she says "brought"!

One woman whose YouTube tutorials I watch says eck cetera instead of et cetera. Makes me twitch every time I hear it.

The current trend for using 'of' instead of 'have' drives me nuts!! 'I would of' 'I could of' etc...

Amount of people - should be number.

Less tables - should be fewer.

Warmer temperatures - should be higher.

I don't say it to people's faces but I have had to rein my children in when they started doing just that.

@KezzaBellaB yes!! I've also noticed a lot of people saying "if I would of" instead of if I had. I don't know when or why that started, but it seems to be everywhere just now, including TV.

I also can't stand people saying "I seen" and "I done".

If the doctors can’t sort out my waterworks I’m going to have to have one of them cafetieres

Favourite horror on here (all the time) is 'your' instead of 'you're' as in 'Your going to regret that'. But then the grammatical howlers that piss me off are too many to mention.

I only read the first few, sorry, but Peddle stool
"She has her husband on a peddle stool"(pedestal)

...oh and let's not forget 'I was sat' or 'I am sat'.

Just to be pedantic, shouldn't this thread me on Pedants' Corner?

“Bare with me” is another one.

Um, no, I’d rather not!

10% of the population are dyslexic. Yabu and an asshat