Eachother is not a word!

[LaPerduta]

These are not words either:

Inbetween
Infront
Alot
Loosing (unless you're loosing the hounds)
Non

Call me unreasonable if you like...

Why have people started saying 'I lent it off...' instead ' I have borrowed it'

Someone cannot learn you something.. They have “Taught” you something.

learning is something you do, not what someone else does for you. You can “learn something new today” however if someone has made you aware of something you never previously knew, then they taught you, not “learnt” you.

A lot of this is because people don't read as much print (and I don't mean the internet) as they used to, so they write what they hear.

The lent/ borrow confusion was going when I was in primary in the early 60s.

oh dear, @Tropicaliyes. oh dear.

@PaigeMatthews 🤷🏽‍♀️ what? It’s grammatically incorrect and a big pet peeve like this whole thread.

I have a tea towel with facts about the Lake District and it has the word "infact" on it. I have to hang it the other way so I can't see it as it annoys the fuck out of me.

Bunny, these mishaps are unlikely due to dyslexia and it's a little unfair to suggest that. I have taught many dyslexic young people who would not make these errors. The homophones perhaps, but the rest? Probably not.
It is almost certainly due to people reading less print media and therefore not absorbing, through exposure, these spellings, rules and conventions.
I also find that, refreshingly, people don't necessarily care too much about this stuff when communicating informally in writing on social media or in casual work contexts. Functional literacy -job done.

Tropical, c'mon, This was joking and making an illustrative comment.

Threads like these are so unbearably smug and patronising and really belong in Pedants' Corner.

I saw someone use the words 'rest bite' this week.

People have been mangling those two for decades.

Some of the examples on this thread come from dialect and the sounds of some words and phrases in certain accents - of instead of have for example. An awful lot of it comes from autocorrect and inability or unwillingness to go back and edit.

"Larn" is a dialect word for "teach" and is different to "learn." Both come from OE "laeran" (which is, umm, to teach). That'll larn ye!

Fuck, these are all offensive to me.

I’m sure some people have dyslexia, but for many, many people it’s just a lack of exposure to words because they don’t read. Ever. And they don’t care about language.

His/he’s and defiantly/definitely… I can’t understand how people cannot see that they’re different words.

They are now.

People keep saying everyday to mean every day. They have different meanings.

Also I'm apart of a new group - means the opposite of what they're trying to say.

Language has been "evolved" according to them but in reality it's just being bastardised but whatever. I've pointed things out in the past and been called a few things including a racist.

"Gotten"

Hate it

My solicitor's letter has this in. I didn't correct it I didn't want to come across up myself.

Per say, anyone?

🤣🤣😄😄
Altho mentally, I was screamimg!

'An other' was probably two words once upon a time. 'Up on' too, for that matter. 'Over night'. I could think of more.

Where there's the potential for genuine confusion, as in 'every day' vs 'everyday', there's a reason for retaining the current spelling, but the others may well evolve into one word. Of course people should try to write them as they are spelt now, but I just can't get as offended by them as some people seem able to (presumably showing themselves to be superior in the process).

One thing that does annoy me in spite of myself is the use of 'off' for 'from' when talking about gifts. It sounds as if the recipient had wrestled the gift out of the giver's hands.

Aphasia, stroke, dyslexia. All these can affect the way people write ( 2 also affect speech) but so long as it makes OP sounds clever that's all that matters right?

No, there's no excuse!
And he used '...and I'm like...' noooooo!

Whilst we're at it, there seems to be a creeping replacement of 'ect' for 'etc', and it's upsetting me.

i love this!

Gotten (got is bad enough)
'I'm excited for christmas' NO! You are excited about christmas; you can't be excited about a concept . You can be excited for a person - I'm so excited for you, you must be very pleased..'

Autocorrect ALWAYS turns my "well" into "we'll"

I agree with all of the other examples except OP - eachother is a word I’ve used all my life pronounced eee-chu-ther. I learned to write it correctly but still believe it’s SW dialect.

I hope you realise this is a form of bullying. It can take people who have had strokes etc a very long time to start posting again, posts like this make it alot harder. Perhaps instead of mocking you could let it go and me thankyou you don't suffer this way