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.

Loads of people put “ isle” instead of “ aisle” & “ board” instead of “ bored”. Oh & I saw “ Bedroom with on sweet”!

I’ve seen affect and effect used incorrectly/interchangeably...like ‘that didn’t effect me.’

A friend of mine always used to call the brand Radley, Bradley. No matter how many times I tried to correct her if we were shopping she continued saying Bradley. I do wonder if she thought I'm wrong and rolled her eyes whenever I said Radley.

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.

That's probably intentional, some teachers will pick what they want a child to focus on in their writing at the time and when marking the work will underline two things to be edited which fit in with the target. If you underline every single error then the child can be really demoralised. I would be serious twitching at there/their/they're mistakes though, I would have to correct there books every time.

I saw "it's like bay root" instead of Beirut recently.

I'm so fed up of hearing "pacifically" instead of "specifically".

Chester draws is the worst.

Do you think the fact people don't read as much as they used too, could be the cause of some of these errors.
And yes I know my spelling is terrible.

I was looking at something on Amazon just now. One of the reviews said that you'd be better off using the kind of tape measure that you'd have in your sowing box.

I don't think that the teacher's mispronounciation of Acacia is too bad. That's a word that somebody could plausibly not have met (especially if you're not into gardening and don't know anybody whose street is called Acacia something) and the soft c pronunciation is phonetically plausible.

Trellis table

@Sparklfairy - I’ve learnt something new and am now going to use “wallah” in that context.
I love this - thank you!

@DustbinTimberlake

I’ve seen affect and effect used incorrectly/interchangeably...like ‘that didn’t effect me.’

This seems to be everywhere at the moment. I've not seen anyone use 'affect' for months.

I quite liked ‘this cream is great for your paws’ meaning pores..

I have some open paws and fred vanes.

@DustbinTimberlake, @thenightsky, I don't except what you are saying.

Great thread. I wince frequently when reading fb posts with grammar errors. I have a colleague on a work group chat and her comments make my teeth itch!, a recent favourite was that she was “on root to the meeting” she frequently refers to “fowlk” instead of folk (regional term I suppose) or people, I never understand why people’s spell check doesn’t pick these things up when typing on phones or do they just think the phone is wrong?.

My old boss always used to say "nip it in the butt"

Seriously - what is this 'draws' thing instead of drawers? After reading comments on mumsnet I looked up adverts on eBay and was amazed how common it is. I even saw a professional firm advertising they made 'draws' to fit units.
Bizarre

Some people confuse "eligible" and "illegible".

I've seen a MIL described as 'high rate' on here.

Not reading as much, and not speaking/enunciating properly, and not thinking about what they are saying.

@OneEpisode

I would like my children’s teachers to have good spelling and grammar. But I wouldn’t discard an applicant‘S CV for positions where it wasn’t relevant though. Something like dyslexia would be a barrier to working as a copy editor, to be overcome, but would make no difference in other jobs. Tolerance is important in many jobs, so that both expresso and espresso are valid words. And remembering basic facts, that for instance hens are not mammals so there wouldn’t be a chicken umbilical cord.

Yes of course they don't have umbilical cords.

Even so it's the image that came into my head

Don't forget board as in
"We need to control our boarders!"

Alately.

We’re in South Yorkshire and I constantly hear / see “he’s been doing well alately” 🖕🏼

Also, loverly. Your new carpets look loverly

Is it thankyou a noun as in the thankyou letters?? But surely that's still a adjective? The thank you is describing the noun letter?

Thinking "aloud" here

I think the 'draws' thing is because if you have a non-rhotic accent, the 'er' is pretty much silent.

Also the misspelling of 'etc' is probably down to the fact that so many people seem to pronounce it "eck cetera" instead of "et cetera", so it seems logical to them that the 'c' rather than the 't' would come straight after the 'e' in the abbreviation.

Note to self: need to post after reading all thread.

One that winds me all the way around the clock and I dont know why is Depol (deed poll)