The worst spelling mistake ever

[mymadpuppy]

Someone had wrote to a friend on facebook and couldn't spell "I".....but rather "eye" instead.
Example....."Eye went to the shop"

Now I don't normally care how people spell things, and I know it's none of my business but aibu to declare this the worst spelling mistake ever? It wasn't a typo either because "eye" instead of "I" is constantly used by this person.

bottle love that. It’s is a classic ! Extremely clever switch.

Idk why people are getting so worked up over this post. I thought it was funny. Probably intentionally done though I would think, unless it was a voice to text error.

In my line of work there is often a requirement to define a "buffer zone" around an area of natural habitat or similar.

The fact that the letter g is right next to the letter f on the keyboard is most unfortunate.

I've recently received a letter from my solicitor that said "more then" instead of "more than".

At my primary school, the words of "remember, remember the fifth of November" were displayed prominently. On the last line "should ever be forgot", the letters "ten" were added in tiny print on the last word.

@Ijustreallywantacat

What exactly do hope to achieve here? You say 'once can be overlooked' when referring to your own poor grammar.

So you have decided that this person can't be overlooked. They must be punished? Shall we parade them around the streets with a dunce hat? Would you like us to call them thick?

I'm an educator. It boils my blood when I see shit like this. I am teaching someone at the moment, who despite our best efforts, can hurt barely spell their own name. When they try to write, it is neat and tidy, but utter nonsense that cannot be phonetically sounded out. They are creative, amazing with their hands, and have an amazing imagination. It breaks my heart to know thar despite all of their amazing qualities, and fantastic potential, that people will still sneer at them throughout their life. That the biggest battle they will have will be with their own self esteem.

I realise I sound sanctimonious here, but I don't care. Spelling means shit. You understood what they meant, so who cares?

"You can't help respecting anybody who can spellTUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spellingTuesdaysimply doesn't count.” - Winnie the Pooh

Lighten up, you're taking it all far too seriously.

Mortified that when I was spelling something phonetically over the phone (can't remember what) and I said y for wanky instead of y for yankee. Luckily the person in the other end of the phone found it funny 😆

Slightly related, my adult DC once tinkered with autocorrect on my new phone so that common words like "and" and "the" were replaced with anatomical terms.

I clocked it after a flurry of WTF messages and then had to watch what I wrote like a hawk and do copious editing. I am not good with tech and it took a week for the little darling to sort it for me while enjoying every moment of my discomfort. Yeah, thanks for that one.

@Looneytune253 Does the person who says ‘the smorning’ live in NI by can’t chance? I know someone who does that too and I’m hoping there’s not more than one of them...

@Huglikeabear

I remember the opposite- at school when people were talking about sex (around age 10 or so) I remember a friend talking about how you “have an organism”. She’d obviously misread it somewhere. Looking back it’s hilarious but none of us were any the wiser at the time!

Just to put the above in context- this is at the stage when we thought that during sex the man would pass a testicle through the penis and that would the man join up with an egg inside us to make a baby....

Spelling mistakes and bad grammar don't really bother me minus one.....

Defiantly being used instead of Definitely.

My grandson was doing some school work instead of putting walk he put wank

The subtitles to a diversity and inclusion video I was forced to watch at a major building society had evidently never been checked.
The speaker was saying she though of herself as a bit of a mongrel due to her mixed nationalities - it was translated in the subtitles as "mongol".

Also several County Councils had typos (a single missing o) in docs that were available publicly online for several years.

@pearpickingporky84 nope I'm afraid not. We're in the north east

@NeedCoffeeToSurvive

My sister likes to use "are" instead of "our", I'm not even sure she knows that the word "our" exists as i've never seen her use it and reading her messages is often frustrating.

Although not a spelling mistake and just a case of using the very wrong word, my aunt once asked a staff member in Tesco if they sold sodomy crystals. She meant sodium crystals for her washing machine.

Depending where you live our/are could be the fault of local accent, in the North West 'are kid'. 'are Mum' etc were commonly heard, if the person then writes what they heard it's understandable though not excusable. As a side question, how many people proof-read their post before sending it? I've just corrected pproof! My father always referred to a shopping prectinct, he was convinced that there was another c in there.

@EspressoExpresso

Clearly you've never typo'd "kind regards" as "kind retards" when emailing a disability charity to enquire about hiring their hydro pool

Omg this has done me 😳😂😂😂😂

Someone announcing the birth of their grandchild braedy but put bready Some mum nicknamed him hovis only to us he then tried to correct it and put breasty. Not sure if he had been wetting the babies head but it took 3 attempts to get it right

@EspressoExpresso

Clearly you've never typo'd "kind regards" as "kind retards" when emailing a disability charity to enquire about hiring their hydro pool

I ended a letter "King retards" when working as a legal PA. Said letter was regarding a serious personal injury case where the claimant had ended up with life changing brain injuries. Fortunately caught it as I was putting it in the envelope...quick reprint and all was good.

I love these! Not a spelling mistake but a colleague once misunderstood the difference between capital punishment and corporal punishment and sent a letter back to the member of the public explaining why the Government thought capital punishment wasn't appropriate for juvenile offences. It was about 4 pages long!

My lovely mum used to say, (and write) “ It’s snowing Heaven’s eye!” She meant heavens’ high of course but I love her version.

I worked for an Insurance Broker and was mortified to realise that I had sent a letter to a client asking about their Pubic Insurance Policy!

†It WAS an error! I could not have written that and if somehow the autocorrect - ahem - had inserted such appalling grammar in my sentence, I definitely would have noticed.*

Wow you sound very picky. I'd never criticise someone for something like that.