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Does anyone else find it irritating when people use a z instead of an s. Maybe they think it makes them cool or edgy. I think it makes them look ridiculous. Am I missing something or just being an old grump

Almost, almost annoys me as much as the spelling 'gawjus' 🤯.

Lolz

Never seen it.

I hate people saying ‘our’ instead or ‘are’.

I’ve noticed this a lot over the last few years.

The only people I know who do that are children 😄

Do you mean American spellings?

YANBU

The women on here who use the word 'menz' are quite frankly pathetic

Jesus- another anti- North American by stealth.
OP
Surely you realise / realize that it is a North American spelling? And this is a global site?

I realize you're upset but you need to rationalize it. I sympathize though.

I've only ever seen the opposite.

'Do you want to come to are house tonight'

Soz

I thought that was just an american/british difference?

Same. I've never seen 'our' used for are, only the opposite.

I guess you don't realize that some words are spelled differently in American English and British English. YABU

American spellings are frequently different, especially 'ise' becoming 'ize'

This isn't news. The language diverged in the 17th century and has developed differently.

Zzzzzz
Aw, I thought this thread was going to be about sleeping walks away grumbling tiredly

No I don't mean American spelling, I mean as in the previous example menz instead of mens. Sorry for not making that clear.

I have never seen anyone use, for example, menz instead of men's. It makes me wonder whose writing you are reading.

Menz is never correct and my spell check has just tried to correct it, tell them to turn spell check on

I don’t know what you’re on about.
I thought you meant something like ‘realize’ instead of ‘realise’. Which is just American English.
Where have you seen people write ‘menz?’

Are you serious?

It's an AIBU and FWR staple

For some posters that is

I retract my post

( bows and backs away from thread)

My fault entirely @Dotcheck I should have made it clear in my opening post.

This is so random. I don't think it's even a thing

ise vs ize is more complicated than British vs American English. In quite a few cases the -use is a neologism, presumably to bring those words which were previously suffixed -ize into conformity with those words which are always suffixed -ise.

Nothing to do with OPs query but there it is.

Dealz
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