To think that chester draws isn't as bad as

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'chester freezer'

I'm not defending chester draws, but at least I can understand how it happened.

I've just seen someone talk about their 'chester freezer' on Facebook. There's no excuse.

It is worrying, though, that when enough people make an error for long enough, they will then insist that those who don't make the error are the ones in the wrong.

Even if you're not outright accused of being incorrect, you'll be utterly ridiculed for objecting to '8 items or less' or 'there's not many of those'. It's a race to the bottom.

I like it when people are unindated

I can't get over some of these: bike puncher
And the source one for sauce 🤦‍♀️

Not spelling but pronunciation....Dear departed mother callrd

On FB recently, I saw 'a jester of goodwill'.

I love the FB spelling mistakes! My favourite is know and now!
“What do I do know”
“I now what to do” The errors and the fact I spot them, always make me feel super ‘smaret’ and ‘cleaver’

[quote Notverybright]@TheSockMonster

It is pouffe, isn’t it? Yes, that’s what the poster that you quoted said:

‘Otterman, pooffy, foot stall for ottoman, pouffe, footstool’[/quote]
Whoops! I’d misread it as “ pouffe for footstool” and was worried I’d been getting it wrong all these years

There’s a chap on one of our local Facebook pages who makes (lovely) furniture from reclaimed wood. Sadly, I can’t look at his posts any more due to his persistent misuse of the word ‘patina’, which he seems to think is a synonym for wood grain.

I think 'arksed' is a Jamaican pronunciation that has become incorporated into yoof speak.

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Not spelling but pronunciation. Dear departed mother insisted on calling hors d'oeuvres horsey dervs. On holiday in scotland misheard tart and custard as tartan custard

Oh wow these keep getting better!
Jester of goodwill
Tartan custard

What's quite scary here is to realise that most children were homeschooled last academic year....

I've been on Facebook for less then 5 minutes this morning and have seen two posts with "brought" written when they mean "bought" and a colleague (I'm a nurse) stating she was"humming and harring" about getting a takeaway!

There was someone selling a citee on Facebook market place. If they hadn't uploaded a photo of a sofa with it, I would have been very confused.

@Youngatheart00

We had a decorator once (tbf he wasn’t british.....) who proudly told me he had once met Arson Vinegar!!!

You know, the former Arsenal Manager 😂

Some of the examples on this thread are hilarious, and almost certainly the result of not reading much/at all (except social media), therefore not having much exposure to correct spelling and grammar.

But isn't the one above just a mispronounciation by someone not accustomed to hearing/saying that name? He didn't spell it wrong.

I really laughed at raping the Christmas presents.

My DS was another that thought it was "Can't be asked" I told him not to say it anymore and he would not have it and insisted that it was a saying in its own right.

Same with "no more tears" - He thought it related to split ends and would not be corrected.

@SchrodingersImmigrant yes it is scary! My 8yo was writing stories using text speak slang and awful grammar. I was shocked that if he had been at school, he would have handed the work in, I had to correct him and he was genuinely surprised that he was wrong as his teacher apparently hadn't corrected the same type of errors before!

Now he is only 8 and his mistakes were mostly the bear/bare sort or apostrophe errors but even so, I was disappointed that he is not getting the basic stuff right and yet his teacher said he's one of the brightest in the class!!!

Some of the classics on here are from adults and it is scary that people go through life thinking "Chester draws" etc are correct and then presumably their children believe this or correct and so on!

Regarding ‘could care less’. Despite it making no sense (like the fort being held down) it’s also regarded as accepted usage. Could care less definition So that’s language for you, constantly adapting and changing and the more people use something the more it’s accepted.

‘Bone Apple’ is still confusing me....

@Littleroundsponge

I saw a post on Facebook of a notice in a shop window saying Shoplifters will be prostitutes... Obviously supposed to be prosecuted

Well... It doesn't have to be😂 It's a joke sign now

Someone on here uses "pancake" for panic. It was a serious thread and no one pointed it out. I thought it was an autocorrect but later on she used it as a verb: I was pancaking. Have the people inventing these phonetic approximations never seen the word written down?

Looking through DD’s books at a school open day 2 years ago, I spotted something along the lines of ‘her Mum said “take this basket of cakes to Aunt Martha and be careful because there fragile”. She put on her boots and started walking towards her aunty’s house’

‘Aunty’s’ had been underlined in green pen and she had been asked to write ‘aunties’ out 5 times at the bottom of the page. ‘There’ remained unchallenged.

Same teacher used to confuse ‘thank you’ with the noun ‘thankyou’.

I never did pluck up the courage to say anything. She is an intelligent and educated woman and it made me wonder what mistakes I’m making without realising!

wallah!!

@Tadpolesandfroglets

‘Bone Apple’ is still confusing me....

You have to keep saying Bone Apple Tea.

[quote Aria20]@SchrodingersImmigrant yes it is scary! My 8yo was writing stories using text speak slang and awful grammar. I was shocked that if he had been at school, he would have handed the work in, I had to correct him and he was genuinely surprised that he was wrong as his teacher apparently hadn't corrected the same type of errors before!

Now he is only 8 and his mistakes were mostly the bear/bare sort or apostrophe errors but even so, I was disappointed that he is not getting the basic stuff right and yet his teacher said he's one of the brightest in the class!!!

Some of the classics on here are from adults and it is scary that people go through life thinking "Chester draws" etc are correct and then presumably their children believe this or correct and so on![/quote]
I am thinking that teachers are told not to. Just in case child has sen/is sensitive to criticism/parents are sensitive to criticism etc... It must be pretty hard to try to correct know it all idiots parents who teach that stupid to their kids and then defend it(unless it's a sen issue of course).

It however absolutely explains what I encountered at uni...

@FlosCampi

Someone on here uses "pancake" for panic. It was a serious thread and no one pointed it out. I thought it was an autocorrect but later on she used it as a verb: I was pancaking. Have the people inventing these phonetic approximations never seen the word written down?

It doesn't even sound exactly the same. I now wonder what does she call pancakes