Just seen my first 'spag bowl' on FB. I feel like I belong here now

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I'm honoured.

I 'defiantly' have never seen that before

Please someone explain how so many people these days are getting so much so wrong!! Is it autocorrect? Is it ignorance? Is it one person making a mistake, then others copying it thinking it must be how it's spelt? Is it stupidity? What?! Do people just walk around with their blinkers on and ignore written spellings? In supermarkets, restaurants, on menus, on adverts...wouldn't you question what the 'bowl' bit means? I don't know how you could not know it's bol short for Bolognese.

Ahem

No one cares...like when you sign off your Christmas card to your neighbours of 15 yrs and theirs comes back with an alt spelling of your name

Not sure I can bare it!

"... then put it all together, and.. Wallah!"

Then realised it's meant to be Voilà.

I know someone who genuinely types it as Spag Bowel....

yummy

Hash Wednesday has wound me up to an irrational degree. You’re all much nicer than I would have been. I would HAVE to say something!

CornishMade I've seen that written as Eh Wallah! before, which always makes me laugh because I 'hear' it in a broad Yorkshire accent.

Mmm. Spag bowl. My fav. Bon apple tea xx

I remember it being called Spag Bog in the 80s / 90s. Maybe I just need another expresso to wake me up.

Totally missing the point, but this thread has made me hungry now.

One of my favourite colleagues says 'would of' instead of 'would have'. I couldn't correct her at the start as I didn't know her, and now we're good friends it would be weird as it's been years.

What do I do?

@Legomadx2 just reply, VERY concisely, '"Oh, I WOULD HAVE too!" Every, single, time!

I don't think literacy standards have declined. Social meda, texting, WhatsApp and so on have made poor literacy extremely visible. A generation ago, the people who genuinely can't spell, punctuate or write grammatically correct standard English had very little occasion to write anything for public consumption after they left school.

That's a good idea @northernknickers , I shall try it, thank you!

Sod's law - social media is obviously what I meant there.

Did anyone watch the episode of First Dates Hotel where Francesca comes out of the kitchen and says in disgust, I hear you want a SPARG BOL

I've seen photographs of wedding vowels renewals.

Mother and todder groups advertised.

I cannot bear it, I really can't. They need to be corrected every single time. If you're communicating in the written word, it is important to get it right. Look it up if you're unsure maybe?

Everybody gets taught phonics. That means they attempt to spell words they have only heard the way that they sound (which also depends upon the person saying them not having an accent/knowing how to say them properly themselves). Sometimes they'll get it right, sometimes they'll get a word that could feasibly be pronounced in the same way due to the flexibility of English, sometimes you'll get something where, if you switch off your WHAT THE DEVIL IS THAT MEANT TO BE? response, you'll realise that they've spelled the word absolutely correctly if you're using phonics.

Hence 'hun', 'vowels' instead of 'vows', 'spade' instead of 'spay' - and then there's Autocorrect on top. If you start the word off incorrectly because you've never seen it written, it's not guaranteed that it can pick up that you actually mean something starting with completely different letters.

I heard " insiduous" instead of " insidious " this morning on Radio 4.
And, of course " mischevious" instead of " mischievous".

CongraDulatons!

@Grammar, my husband and I are constantly correcting people on the TV. We shout out in unison "It's mischievous, you moron!"
"Have you got a girlfriend/ job/coat?"
"Yes I do" …"It's yes I HAVE you uneducated idiot" And if you start every answer to a question with "So", I hope you get knocked out of The Chase and the others all win thousands.

Corn beef ash and colly

Brought instead of bought

Draws instead of drawers