To blame Girls Aloud

[BadTimesAtTheElRoyale]

At least 3 times a day I see the misuse of aloud instead of allowed and rightly or wrongly it drives me crazy.

It is annoying. Though I suspect that it might be one that is often related to things like predictive text.

I also find there are mistakes I make typing that I never make printing or writing, it seems to have something to do with the speed. For example there and their - I know how to use them and it's been automatic since I was 10, and I never made errors really until I began to type a lot. I have to watch it now though and if I don't reread I regularly miss errors.

I hear you and I agree with you.

Have you visited Pedants' Corner? I think you'll find your people there

Hmm there are so many errors that seemingly have no root that I think it's just that people are dumb and can't spell properly (excluding of course anyone who can't spell for any number of diagnosed reasons)

But Girls Aloud were not misspelling it were they? I always assumed they really meant "aloud".

"Allowed" would have worked too, depending on what message they wanted to convey.

People have been making that mistake since way before the advent of Girls Aloud!

@DramaAlpaca

I hear you and I agree with you.

Have you visited Pedants' Corner? I think you'll find your people there

Oooh these are my people too!

I agree with you OP

Girls Aloud deliberately played on the double meaning and different spellings

"I'm not aloud to " is cringe

The one that really annoys me is ‘pimp’ instead of ‘primp’.

When and how did this even happen?

I mean, yeah, ‘pimp my ride’ obviously started it - but why the use of ‘pimp’ instead of what they actually mean, which is ‘primp’?

It's like 'except' fur accept.

I've seen 'i excepted it' written often.

And fur instead of for, autocorrect loves that one.

Yanbu, OP. The misuse of your and you're is even more prevalent though and just as painful to read. It's as if people think they are completely interchangeable. It's certainly not pedantic or unreasonable to be annoyed.

I am always astonished by how common it is for people to write “he’s” when they mean “his”. Drives me bananas.

I totally agree op! Girls Aloud used the word in their name thinking that we would all be clever enough to comprehend the double meaning but nope.

I also hate women for woman and draws for drawers

And because of the movies people think the jolly fat man is Santa Clause 🤦

“Deleat if not Aloud”

@MerchantOfVenom

The one that really annoys me is ‘pimp’ instead of ‘primp’.

When and how did this even happen?

I mean, yeah, ‘pimp my ride’ obviously started it - but why the use of ‘pimp’ instead of what they actually mean, which is ‘primp’?

The idea as that the car is made to look like a car a pimp would drive. It's not meant to stand in for primp at all.

Does it really matter? If people didn’t make spelling mistakes, you’d have less reason to feel superior. So be grateful for them!

I agree too. The other one that gets me is been instead of being -- doesn't make any sense in what you are reading.

'Pimp' in that sense means to bling something up - usually in an over-the-top way, as in how the stereotypical pimp dresses. It was never meant to mean 'primp'.

There is a lovehoney ad that keeps popping up on mumsnet promoted by mumsnet using the word 'discrete'....do people not spell check anymore.

Loose/lose is the one that sets my teeth on edge, and i’m usually not one for pedants’ corner. They actually SOUND different, how can so many mix them up?

As pp, ‘pimp’ is meant to be “done up in an over the top style, like a 1950s pimp in zoot suit and fur coat”. It’s arguably racist, misogynistic, and generally demeaning, but it’s not grammatically wrong.

I sometimes think I'm the only person alive who knows the difference between 'sliver' and 'slither'. Certainly no sub editors do.

Oh, and 'cliché' is a fucking noun. If you're describing something you need the adjective: clichéed. Same goes for bias/biassed.

Peninsula/peninsular. Noun, adjective.
Not hard, is it.

Is aloud not correct though? As in to speak something aloud? I used to have a huge problem with 'should of' and another one I (I can't remember it) but I think if you look too closely at any of it you lose what the person is trying to say

I saw Tim Buck Too the other day, complete with spaces and capitals, although if you've never seen it written it could be forgiven