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!

Have drawers and draws been done yet! haven't rtft

Ha ha that is so funny I was actually about to post about both the things you just mentioned!

I love that this has a typo and says every Tim instead of time :)

I worked in Asia for a long time. It’s very common amongst English speakers in Hong Kong and Singapore (where it is an official language alongside others) to talk about “a staff” and “staffs”. They are talking about employees rather than long wooden poles, eg “I spoke to the staff who was guarding the door” or “there were 5 staffs in attendance”. The looks I got when I said they had to change their report to say “member of staff” for the singular if it was going to be read outside Asia…

Except it doesn't! If you click on the link you can see the whole page. It's just the last bit that's cut off in the window shown on the thread.

I do get a bit annoyed when posters don’t put the extra “e” on a female person who is engaged, fiancé vs fiancée. I guess fewer people learn French at school these days?

I. DO. NOT. CARE!

Akin to patients saying “I have blood pressure” but none of us correct this, obviously, we all know what they mean. Probably not a SPAG error either.

Outside work bad SPAG really gets my goat and that includes my errors so I like thread like this one to learn from.

Yes you are correct OP but most people will either:

A)get what the person means

B)doesn't really give a shit 🤣🤣

Not a typo, but I’m not keen on the use of ‘express’ instead of ‘said’. Eg She expressed that she was not able to attend the meeting.

when you say literally but mean metaphorically isn’t it sort of a metaphor for emphasis?

I am literally so hungry I could eat a horse.

I did hear someone say pacific instead of specific though. That did make my cringe but that’s when people talk rather than write. My writing isn’t good please don’t check mine!

Fellow clansfolk.... I salute and embrace you all.

Another fan of the divide and concur boo-boo.

I think the sad thing is that so many people just don't care.

I know we're on a forum, and we're not exactly writing grand academic theses - and mistakes will be made. That's completely normal (and almost guaranteed when you're posting on a thread about SPAG!). But it's the use of poor grammar, like 'should of' etc and spelling, like 'chester draws', that gives away generally low levels of literacy and education. Which is a huge shame.

I know when my DC were at school I was often appalled by the fact that they didn't correct spelling in work that wasn't their English work.

That said, I've been reading here for so long now, that recently I genuinely had to check the correct spelling of 'hear hear'. Or is it 'here here' ...

I love it when a pedant gets out-pedanted 😂

I cracked up at this as I hate it too 🤣🤣🤣

You are such a pendant, OP.

The emphasis on the word 'affect', in this context, is in the 'a', rather than on the 'ffect', where the word is used most commonly.
It is niche...and it only adds to the confusion!

I always think it's quite interesting that 'would have' became 'would 'av' which became 'would 'uv' which then became 'would of'.

This is something I say a lot, but never write down because I'm never sure which one it is and both look wrong 😳

I don't want to be a grammar twat, but on mn
Queue when cue is meant
And curb instead of kerb (on parking threads) make my teeth itch.
I never say anything though.

I saw non chalant on a thread earlier, which made me smile

But any of these could be auto correct or fat fingers - both of which happen to me regularly 🤷‍♀️

An Instagrammer was describing her new puppy as a "little worldwind".
She also had to tidy the "draws" in her daughter's bedroom.

If you want to be really pedantic, it's SPaG, not SPAG.

On a thread a while back somebody exclaimed Gawd and Bennet .

Do you feel better now, babes? 😂

I often see mindfield instead of minefield

Ok 👌🏽