Is it a thing to use His instead of He's?

[boringbelle]

I'm noticing that many posts online are using His when they mean 'he's'. I thought it was a typo at first, but seeing it so often I wonder if people don't know that it's incorrect and are spelling out 'he's' as they say it.

But what I've also noticed is that no one seems to correct it like they do with other grammatical inaccuracies such as 'Your' instead of '

So AIBU to care, as I find it so annoying, especially as I think it's a new error that's creeping in?

My best friend does this. 'His going to football' 'aww his so cute' etc etc
It drives me mad!

Could I throw in dint instead of didn't and noone instead of no-one please?

Yabu. I'm terrible at spelling myself. This is a message forum so it's not like a legal document. It really doesn't matter. My middle class friend likes to point out my spelling mistakes on WhatsApp it's become a running joke. Working class people would never do this, it is a snobbery thing. My poor spelling has not held me back in life. I have much more important things to worry about.

Bought/brought as well

Says the skip/skipped dummy😂

I've noticed it a lot more recently.

I always try not to judge but this recent comment on my son's school WhatsApp group really tested me...

"His lost he's jumper again"

AGH!

Aswell, alot, abit

I’ve noticed it a lot too OP. I don’t understand it tbh because even in other accents surely you should be pronouncing them differently? I once had a colleague that would say he’s instead of his when speaking and it sounded so wrong.

I have noticed terrible spelling in general online recently, cresh instead of crèche, wear instead of ware (context of table dressing) etc.

He’s is not a word.

One word that so many people don’t seem to know the meaning of anymore is mortified. I see everywhere.
“I was home alone and there was a man in my garden late at night and I was mortified!!!”
”I was driving on the motorway and a speeding driver nearly hit me and i was mortified I was going to die!!”

No you weren’t mortified. You were terrified/horrified/scared.

Some of the comments on here make people sound so sheltered and the criticising of intelligence makes me cringe.

As if people can’t honestly understand why someone would pronounce or write something differently.

Or why a menu in a restaurant might have a mistake on one line and not the other.

Fun fact - not everyone in the UK speaks and writes perfect English and there are multiple reasons for that. If you’re all so smart, look them up.

I’ve started seeing this all the time. There’s a person I notice on here who always writes his instead of he’s.

I genuinely think the word lose - or at least that spelling of the word - is soon going to be just phased out of use. SO many people just use loose now that it's becoming obsolete.

I'm blaming autocorrect 👀

@Strawberryfruitcorner - so should we just accept it as a change to our language?

I would never correct anybody online although I would someone I knew well in real life (as it's totally incorrect and makes no sense).

But part of my AIBU is that I have never seen it corrected online (by the pedants 😀) although lots of other errors are.

His and he's sound very different in my accent.

I find malaprops like this really interesting.

I long ago came to the conclusion that to all intents and purposes, a lot of people are functionally illiterate. Mostly through no fault of their own. It staggers me that children can spend so long in education and emerge the other end unable to string a coherent sentence together.

It’s lack of education. Similar to people who don’t know the difference between ‘brought’ and ‘bought’ and those who use ‘a’ when they mean ‘I’.

It does matter, and it's not a middle class thing.
It makes you look uneducated when you write and difficult for people to understand what you have written.
It really, really does matter.

What accent is that?

I have just never come across this but I'm flabbergasted.
Are these people born in the UK?
Isn't it just absolute basic grammar and anyone who had picked up one book or newspaper in their life would know this?

Could of / should of drives me insane but this is a new one.

😂 “our language” hasn’t changed, it was never perfectly written or spoken to begin with, whether that be due to accents or competency etc.

The internet is showing you other people’s understanding of it and competency in it.

I see it the other way around and also hate people saying “I seen it” instead of “saw”.

Don’t even get me started on ‘we was’

*its

It's not "differently" like having a different accent. It's just plain wrong and does the writer a disservice. They're actually letting themselves down.