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.

Round where live you can sit on a puffey to look at a muriel.

rest bite also goes through me

'Black painted leather shoes, size 6'. I imagined a lovely artistic pair, until I realised...

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?

I'm not sure it is an adjective there tbh. It's pretty common to use a noun in front of another noun to specify what category it's in, e.g. a cake fork, a birthday card, a book bag. You couldn't use 'thankyou' as an adjective in a normal way - e.g. "That card is very thankyou". It can be anoun in other contexts though - "That was a very polite thank-you" or "I gave her a bunch of flowers as a thank-you".

I feel as though it should be hyphenated as a noun though, not made it into one word.

The more I read this thread, the more I'm convinced that a lot of these mistakes will become acceptable.

But, history suggests that this is not unique to 21st Century.

And that's another one.

People are always qualifying the word "unique".

Just checked. OED says it can be either an exclamation or a noun (not an adjective), but either way it's two separate words, no hyphen.

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?.
I think phones 'learn' a lot of the words people use so, if a word is spelt wrong originally, it will continue to spell it that way. Besides which my phone sometimes gives me complete garbage, words which are not even real.

No quite the same but i saw this in a charity shop

Definitely, Captain. My phone wrongly predicts my own email address because I typed the same typo in it multiple times.

I have spell check / autocorrect turned off on my laptop, partly because I occasionally disagree with it and partly because I very often type things in two languages within one document and the red squiggly lines which appear under correct words seriously piss me off!

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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?

I'm not sure it is an adjective there tbh. It's pretty common to use a noun in front of another noun to specify what category it's in, e.g. a cake fork, a birthday card, a book bag. You couldn't use 'thankyou' as an adjective in a normal way - e.g. "That card is very thankyou". It can be anoun in other contexts though - "That was a very polite thank-you" or "I gave her a bunch of flowers as a thank-you".

I feel as though it should be hyphenated as a noun though, not made it into one word.

That's interesting.

I like learning from this thread!

My phone is obsessed with possessive apostrophes when I want plurals. It does it to every day of the week!

My OH always says, 'I borrowed him my hammer'.

I used to loathe pupils saying Can I lend a ruler? My usual response was Of course, to whom do you wish to lend it? Water off a duck's back though in must cases!

Affect/effect drives me mad. Also discreet/discrete. Envious/enviable (as in EA details: 'The house occupies an envious position overlooking woodland'). And apostrophes being added to make plurals.

I think these things have probably always been with us, it's just that the use of texting and social media means many more people are writing informally every day.

For example, in the old days it was really only on handwritten price labels at the greengrocer that you'd see apostrophes being misused to make plurals.

YY to all of these.

Carnt is my biggest bugbear on social media - one girl in particular I can never get my head around as she was very clever at school.

Rediculous, carnt, que/cue (instead of queue), pacific.

People who have exma and asma too....... it's exhausting trying to decipher some people on social media.

I once wrote rest bite for respite. I could say I'd seen it on Facebook, but it was me.

Brought instead of bought!

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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.

But the problem was that aunty’s was correct, and the child was wrongly told to change it, whereas the error in her work went unnoticed.

Assumedly, instead of presumably. (Presumably)

People talking about their ‘guide’ ropes for tents.
People talking about their female cat that has just been spade.

Trellis table
Surely, that's what Mrs Trellis of North Wales uses when she writes her letters to "I'm sorry, I haven't a clue"

'if it's any constellation' hahahaha. or 'defiantly' instead of 'definitely'

Our MP (finally) replied to an email I sent her, saying that "coronavirus has tested our metal".

I wanted to ask which particular metal had been tested, and for what - strength, rusting ability?

affect / effect used in the wrong context. argh 😂

To KatnissK, my son’s name (in the family) was ‘toad’ as he liked to fester on his lily pad (bed) all morning.
When he got his first car after passing his test I thought about (but didn’t get) a metal ‘novelty’ parking sign with ‘frog parking only. All others will be toad’. Sometimes these things bring a bit of a smile, but you have to know it’s wrong to appreciate the joke. Unfortunately so many of these examples are just evidence of bad education.

So I was having a conversation with dh the other day and we were talking about BMI and all that crap and my husband just happened to say obeast in stead of obese he genuinely says obeast every time it makes me laugh my head off, another one is remoke control instead of remote control!