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?

I've noticed a lack of full stops in text messaging, and as I'm a lazy cow I've started doing it too

Jamp is Scots, in case you've heard it from one of us!

I realise it's a new word, but I can't stand "I text him last night".

Isn't the past tense "texted"??

PS I've never come across "Chester Draws", but am imagining very voluminous ones, possibly worn by a Margaret Rutherford character

It's a contraction of 'he is'.

100% agree re your second paragraph. Plenty of people simply don't need to use formal written language day-to-day, but the rise of social media exposes the types of errors that most people have always made.

And language absolutely changes, but that phenomenon is not a gotcha to excuse abominations like "would of" (I'm not accusing you of doing that btw, it just annoys me when people on MN trot out that line as though they're suddenly PhDs in linguistics).

Think of us ESOLs.
How are we supposed to keep up with all the "changes"😂
Keep it Oxford textbooks style😂

@MegTheForgetfulCat but I think such 'abominations' do explain how language evolves. Why are verbs used for centuries spelt differently now to how they were spelt in the middle ages? No-one decides these things, unilaterally. It's the population changing how they use language.

So many people with terrible spelling and/or grammar. The one that really annoys me and I see all the time is passed and past.

‘That is one of his favourites’

Imagine that there is some music playing and somebody said ‘My dad likes this tune’ and the response would be ‘Yeah. That is one of his favourites’. Said with a particular accent it would be pronounced ‘he’s favourites’. This may lead to the error that OP was raising.

That was true before spellings became codified following the spread of the printing press, yes. The point I was making was just that a lot of these things are just ignorant mistakes, and "aha, but language evolves!" is not the gotcha people think it is. I think some better examples of language evolving would be "Imma" as an informal hyper-contraction ("I'm going to" > "I'm gonna" > "Imma") or some of the oft-hated words seen on social media (holihobs, furbaby, abbreviations like LO etc). But our formal written language is very codified, so "could of" is never going to be considered correct grammar.

@WhatTheFuckIsThisNow Oh yes, rest bite, forgot that one😊

You only have to look on fb marketplace and you will see numerous examples. It seemed to start many years ago with just draws but now also expanded to Chester draws.

I've seen "His gorgeous hun" comments on baby photos. It does seem to be more common.

I think people read less and write things as they hear them, then other people read the incorrect versions on social media and it's gets perpetuated.

One of my recent bugbears is words that aren't finished properly/in the wrong tense. Examples:
A chill morning (chilled, surely?)
Pack lunch.
He is bias.
Worse case scenario.

Less to the point but I have seen multiple times recently "never step foot". NO!!! It's SET foot!

I would read that as you just dropping the “I” in casual conversation so no different to texting “going to post office, will call in on way home” or such. I didn’t realise people used it instead of “I’m”.

Ooh yes, “I text him last night” really irritates me too. As does “texes” for the plural, it’s “texts”. My sister will say (and write) about all the ‘texes’ she received - gah!

I often give up reading posts that have he's and his mixed up. I see it both ways on an almost daily basis.
It irritates me far more than it probably should.

My first teaching job, child had written "good of". I had no idea what it meant, never encountered it. I was told not to correct it and leave it as it was. I don't teach anymore.

"Text" as a past tense doesn't bother me. It's a new verb for the post-SMS world (an example of language evolving!) and generally used informally. I don't see why it shouldn't conjugate like "hit" in that context. If you were writing something more formal then "texted" wouldn't be much better IMO - I'd put "sent a text message" (although i can't imagine needing to say something like that in a formal setting so this is pretty moot!) But "texes" makes no sense at all! They're not "tex" messages!

I need a coffee after that post! 😂

Dare I ask, what type of errors were you correcting if "good of" (I assume intending to mean "could have") was to be left alone?...

The way I speak means I sometimes pronounce 'his' a bit like 'he's' but I know the difference!
If anything it seems to be people saying he's when they mean his? I thought it might be an east London thing.

I was grumbling about the whole step/set foot thing to DH just a few weeks ago. It turned out he didn't know it's meant to be "set foot" until I brought it up 😫

I'd also like to add "upmost" to the list.

Yes, good and wood of were plentiful. I still don't know! I was allowed to correct capitalisation, punctuation and plurals in the same lesson so I don't know why that was left. 10 year olds. Language lesson, I could maybe have understood if it was a history lesson. Could have even accepted good've. (Which has now been added to my auto type)

I suppose it depends on the age of the child. My Reception children (Northern accents) would write 'cunt' instead of 'couldn't' - if you can't see how that works say it with a Northern 'u' sound. I'd write the correct version over theirs but not make a big deal of it.

I think 10 year olds should have had that corrected and firmly pointed out.