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.

I thought of another one!

Off instead of of.

Been instead of being! Loose instead Lose. Drives me mad, means totally different things.

The only one that bothers me is "naice" because people are trying to be clever. They are not.

I am just puzzled by the amount of native English speakers who can't write. I could "of" swear I was right. That doesn't even make sense?

What's funny is when posters go really irate because others misunderstand when they just used the wrong word. The confusion between let and rent comes to mind, but there are plenty others.

Unfortunately, Musmerian reading a lot of modern books isn't going to help in some instances.

I read a hell of a lot, especially at the moment, and I'm coming across more and more mistakes on a regular basis; 'he was sat' is an increasingly common one.

Even if you read widely, you will see errors. Spellcheckers miss things. It might be carving season down on the farm but it doesn't mean that the cows are using calving knives.

I might post on the S&P thread that I need new cloths, but would someone suggest I posted in Housekeeping?

@WorraLiberty thank you for answering. Does that take them of schools? I thought schools here are very strict on attendance.

For anyone with dyslexia. Have you tried the dyslexie font? I was always curious if it was a gimmick or if it helped.

@Winterwoollies I agree. Lack of reading is probably quite a big factor

Here here!

Some of my favourite clangers:
"My boss gives me free reign over my work". (Makes me think of someone strutting around the office in a crown and ermine robes.)
"Bare with me". (People stripping off together suddenly. )
"I'm giving her a wide birth". (Childbearing hips?)

I am appalled by the fairly recent slang/ abbreviation "imma" which seems to be a contraction of "I am going to ...". So bloody lazy!

There was a thread a few days ago where OP continuously said ‘he borrowed her money’ instead of ‘loaned’.
As many posters corrected her but she laughed it off saying my spelling is terrible 😬

I am appalled by the fairly recent slang/ abbreviation "imma" which seems to be a contraction of "I am going to ...". So bloody lazy!
I think it actually stands just for I am. I blame Black eyed peas

I'd say someone lent me money.

@WorraLiberty thank you for answering. Does that take them of schools? I thought schools here are very strict on attendance.

It often means they have piss poor attendance and many have parents where leaving school at 15 or 16 was perfectly legal.

@MikeUniformMike
It was roughly this; my Mil asked my DH for £50, he borrowed her it, I’m fuming.
Loaned or lent but not borrowed.

@WorraLiberty that's quite a failing there! I heard of police taking kids with bad attendance to school? Where are SS in all that with some help? The leaving at 16 shouldn't have such a big impact on language imo. The basics have been taught by that point.

The 'majority of people,' can by definition spell, since if the majority spells it that way, that is the convention.

@Jkscot4, yes, I get that. I see loan and lend differently.

Borrow and lend are not interchangeable.

I agree with you. It drives me mad. Why why why can't they get it right?!

As for myself and yourself. Jesus wept. How did this even happen?

I generally let this go and it doesn't bother me. I dash off loads of posts with the off spelling error and its usually as I'm trying to juggle doing a few thing/ spell check so I assume its the same for others. Since I changed to android a there are always a few stray full stops in my posts if I'm posting from a phone as I can't get the knack of this keyboard.

Having said that, I saw a post on fb the other day where the poster had put a Capital Letter In Front Of Every Word Which Just Boggled My Mind.

All caps I understand (laziness), same for no caps but it takes a lot of effort to put a capital in front of every word. Why put so much effort into being so wrong?!?

Mockers, I will soon have a dinning table, a filling cabinet and a chester draws.

I get irritated by grammatical errors in other people's writing but actually make loads myself (not because I don't know how to write correctly but because I'm lazy).

Reminds me of that story from about 10 years ago about the woman who tried to order a taxi for the next day, saying "I want a cab, innit" - and was shocked when the next morning a van delivered a display cabinet. I have my doubts about whether it's true - but I hope it is.

I think your own opening post proved the o to point I’d make.

@JKScot4 you beat me to it. I had to stop reading that particular thread as it was so confusing. If I remember correctly the poster claimed to have a university degree too.

@mushy
Yes, she did and a high paying job too 🙄

Amount v number .
The amount of work he did ... (work is uncountable)
The number of people she saw....(people are countable)

The amount of children The amount of jobs he applied for
The amount of mistakes people make

She sent a huge amount of messages

Overall though the basics are not difficult and easy enough to check.
Surely it is in everyone's interests to be clear and easy to read.

(There is bound to be a typo somewhere in this )

If it's the odd spelling or grammar mistake then I just let it go. If it's a post that is littered with spelling and grammatical errors, then I just stop reading. Pisses me off!