To point out that the word is “faze” and not “phase” in this context?

[Anyotherdude]

I’ve been reading so many threads where someone writes about being “phased” or “not phased” about something.
it was bothering me so much that I checked to see if it was me that was getting it wrong.
I didn’t.
To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step, so you can be phased into a role, but if you’re not bothered by something, it doesn’t faze you!

Exactly. I've even seen 1980's though
I mean... why?

I read this as shorthand for “I find it very upsetting, what do you think?” Or “Am I right to feel this way?”.

Six-th

While I’m still in full pedant mode, can I please just point out that the plurals of baby, family, party, etc., are babies, families, parties.

And the plural of box is boxes, not box’s. Ditto Christmases, not Christmas’s.

And what is the pronunciation used by those who are saying it wrong?

I don’t know how anyone can pronounce ‘sixth’ in any other way?

Sickth is fairly common. I’m surprised you haven’t heard it.

I don't think spelling is necessarily getting worse but that social media – where we are seeing mistakes – doesn't have sub-editors or proofreaders to correct spellings, in the same way that newspapers and books do. (And on social media it's often not a spelling mistake in any case, it's a predictive text misspelling.)

But then the risk is that people pick up wrong spellings and repeat them. So if you're spelling something according to what you know it looks like – which is what I tend to do, rather than having memorised the spelling – and you've seen it wrong enough times then you may also get it wrong.

But how do sixth and sickth sound different?

In my head they sound exactly the same 🤷‍♀️

I'll try to follow your example!

Sadly I've always been very literal. As a child, if someone said something was "round the corner" I would get agitated if it was round three corners 🙄.

If anyone would now like to posit that I might be on the spectrum, you may do so now 😂. Could I get a PIP for it?

Just read them both phonetically:

Sick-th

Sicks- th

one has an “s “sound in the middle.

The latter doesn’t pronounce the x.

It's ace when you figure out a little memory aid to help you remember something like this, isn't it?

Mine is:
StationEry -pEn
StationAry - cAr

My 7 year old is a bit like you- he can’t cope with the idea that if someone says they will do something “in two minutes” this is not “in precisely 120 seconds and I can set a timer for it”.

I didn't read the whole thread before replying but yes, this is mine too 😁
StationEry - pEn
StationAry - cAr

He is exactly like me! That confused me too!

Poor kid 😂

Sorry, I didn't mean "exactly" 😔

all these complaints should be neatly filed away somewhere.
I saw a chester draws for sale on facebook the other day, that would do nicely to store them.

At least people that write 'phased' instead of 'fazed' give it a good go, unlike this sign I saw outside a local business last week...

Sick-th

Six-th.

Do they honestly sound the same?

Not sure what you are apologising for! To be honest my son is very happy for “in two minutes” to be a fluid concept when the thing that has to be done is something he doesn’t to want to do! It’s only when it’s things like me saying “I’ll get you a dessert in two minutes” that the pedant emerges…

Mine were always
PapER stationERy
StationARy cAR.

I've tried and failed to work out eggcorn so can somebody put me out of my misery please. Could it be 'acorn'?

It's the difference between ks and k. Saying sixth is siksth. Sickth is sikth. The difference is in missing out the s. Say them aloud: try it out in two separate parts: sik and sth or siks and th and then run them together as siksth.

Yes, "linguist Geoffrey Pullum related the case of a woman who thought you pronounced the word acorn as “eggcorn.” "

To me, yes.

There is nothing glaringly obvious about a difference in pronunciation between those two words 😬

Saying it with an ‘s’ sound in the middle feels and sounds so unnatural.

It will always be sixth (six-th) to me.

Please don’t hate me!!! 😂