Spelling!

[Blueuggboots]

I appreciate some people have dyslexia, SEN etc etc and this is not a dig at people with those problems but for the love of god, why can the majority of people not spell?!
It's not he's when you want to say his.
It's not discusting, it's disgusting.
If it belongs to them, it's their's, not there's
It's know if you know something and no if you're saying no to something.
It drives me fucking potty! We all have our strengths and weaknesses but these mistakes are constant on these threads.

@BobbinThreadbare123

I disagree - my phone is an utter twat & changes to/two/too their/there/they're as it pleases. It takes perfectly sensible words & sentences and turns them into garbage, even changing negatives and positives.

It's an iPhone & other than that I love it, but🤦🏻‍♀️

@Blueuggboots. MANY MANY of the errors in my posts are iPhone changed words/letters (the rest are fat fingers!!). . It is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

My best friend won't use MN because her SPAG is dreadful. She's intelligent, hardworking & brilliant in a crisis - far more important attributes being able to spell 🤷🏻‍♀️

To be fair I have found my auto correct often arses up what I write. Sometimes I go back and correct it myself, and sometimes I don't. I can't always be bothered... it is just an internet forum. I don't lose sleep over it.

@MikeUniformMike
🤣🤣🤣
My friend is a councillor; a very good one but I think she’d be a bit at a loss with a broken heart request 🤣

Loose instead of lose as in ‘i want to loose weight’ aargh!

@Likethebattle

You beat me to it!!! I was just about to say the same.

“I’d like to loose 10 pounds” 🙄

ooh yes, the sat one, that also gets me irritated. But as you say, it has become so widely used now that it's almost pointless to correct. if there is ever any point in correcting that is.

If you appreciate that there are people with dyslexia - do you appreciate that it affects one in ten people? Hence in a standard thread with forty / fifty or more different contributors there could be 5 or 6 or more posters with dyslexia commenting, and they shouldn't have to give a flying fuck if spelling mistakes "drive you potty"

I don't have dyslexia but sometimes I will omit an apostrophe or misspell a word on a social media forum because it frankly doesn't matter. Its not a formal piece of writing.

Hahaha it's always the best entertainment when someone berating spelling errors demonstrates how easy it is to get things wrong in their Op

Spelling errors are inanimate concepts, so you can't berate them - only a person (or possibly an animal) can be berated.

Majority of people on here don’t seem to understand that when something is plural you simply add an s. How many baby Eva’s do you know - cringe.

I had a friend at university who often wore a t-shirt that said 'DAILY SEX: Do you get it?'

I freely admit to being a pedant when words are used wrongly. The one that drives me crazy on MN is the frequent misuse of 'advise' when posters are, clearly, asking for advice. (Ask for ice in your drink - ask for advice.)
Read that paragraph twenty times in the hope that it didn't contain spelling or grammatical errors.

It really irritates me when people say/write "I can't bare..." when they mean "I can't bear...". Also as pp mentioned "loosing" instead of "losing".

This one is all over the place, newspapers, national broadcasts:

There's people out there who are in peril

Should be: There are people out there who are in peril.

It's subject/verb agreement.

Aargh.

I find it insulting that people confuse poor spelling and grammar with dyslexia.

The 'spelling' on here that really gets me muttering 'oh for Pete's sake' is defiantly rather than definitely.

@MikeUniformMike - I don't confuse the two. My OH has dyslexia.
I put that at the beginning because I was expecting a barrage of YABU and a long list of disabilities associated with difficulties spelling/reading etc..

@LimitIsUp - they probably don't give a flying fuck...doesn't mean I can't express my irritation at it!! don't give a fuck if you care to be honest!!

Que.

How the hell can anyone look at that and assume it’s correct?

Get in that bloody corner will you

Que is not a word in English.

People seem to use it in place of queue or cue.

defiantly is autocorrected from definatly.

Predictive text has a lot to answer for.

I think it’s mostly to do with people not reading much. A lot of the spelling issues are because people are basing it on what they hear so disgusting becomes discusting. It also shows a lack of curiosity about language and etymology.

There is so much I can’t bear, they make my teeth itch. I try not to be a judgmental twat about it but I can’t help it..

Here’s some of my least favourite:

Should/could/would of instead of have.
Try and instead of try to.
He was sat, instead of he was sitting.
His instead of he’s.
The they’re, their, there debacle.
Women instead of woman.
Aks instead of ask. Or arsked.
Loose instead of lose.
Defiantly or definately instead of definitely.
“Full time mummy,” but that’s probably for a different reason.
A instead of an ahead of a word beginning with a vowel.
We’re, were and where being interchangeable.
Draws instead of drawers. Worst still, Chester draws.
Two, too and to also being interchangeable.
‘Company name’ are, instead of ‘comes any name’ is.

There’s so many more. I think as well as poor education, people just don’t read enough.

The most annoying one for me is misspelling the word gorgeous- gawjuss. All over Facebook that one!

Saw one the other day “my husband is learning my kid to ride his bike” arhhhhhhh NO he is teaching him!!!

@Hadjab that's it!!! How can you not see it???!!!