OK so if expressos are bad, how about prostrate problems and not being pacific enough?!!

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....and whilst we're on it, who's been put to sleep by an anaethetist???!!!!

I've noticed recently that my dad says chimley instead of chimney.

A gold Seiko watch
A white Gucci somethingorother

I shouldn't mock - it's just such too tempting...

Here goes:

Chomping at the bit; off her own back.

MIL regularly says comforable

As for these errors being made by the less literate, educated or the dyslexic; the ones I've mentioned, and most of the ones I've seen posted here, have been said by teachers.

This sort of thing plays on my mind, it really does, real bad. I mean, can't people spell, I mean? I only arks becoz I'm afraid I'm getting too pendantic and I won't have any freinds...

Don't you think you're harking on this issue a bit too much?

This is all completely unasseptable you know. I should of told you that.

Ohh, this thread is sooo bad for me! But do keep them coming !

Does anybody need some new bat trees for their vibrator?

bold dammit

cerstificate!

Having had a laugh at all this, I have a lingering fondness for "keckle" and "lickle", as a dear but now dead SIL used to say these. Indeed Mr E. will still occasionally say he'll put the "keckle" on. :0

Now there's a thing, we still put the kettle on, even though we're usually plugging it in.

And another thing; using "amount" when "number" is needed. You can't have an amount of people; sugar, yes.

Same with "less" and "fewer".

And breathe.

This really should be in pedants' corner - it will get lost.

Prostrate problems drives me mad, pacifically too; I also object to people talking a lot of "dribble" - it's DRIVEL, you arses.

Trouble is that "proper" teaching of the three Rs is almost lost (although even the three Rs is a load of rubbish spelling-wise!) and each generation suffers more because their teachers weren't taught proper [ha!] themselves.

I know there are so many more of these - all the ones mentioned so far grate on me horribly.

How about "here here" and "bare with me" as a couple more?

Ds makes versus into a verb - "I'm versing dad at soccer mum"

I also like "and we had a maggot and then it got deaded."

He's 6 so they aren't cute toddlerisms he thinks this is correct - so you can imagine without someone to tell him that they aren't quite right he would reach adulthood thinking they were asseptable

My mum still says likkle.

LOLOL!. Rusty - perhaps the artic roll has two halves joined together?!

I don't no wat your gettin you're knickers in a knot about.

hambag , I know people carry odd things around in them, but ham?

except £50 o.n.o

ooh alibubbles, you'd have liked it here in Australia before Christmas - people actually sell ham-bags to take the Christmas Ham home in!

This thread is really effecting me.

Schedule not SKedule

unless you're American or Irish, I just can't forgive it

Am enjoying this thread

The only cure I think is to read constantly from early childhood. Seeing proper English internalises the rules - although not necessarily the pronunciation...

Backs of cereal packets and adverts are generally proofread better than books and mags - don't people read the words generally around them every day?

you pedants are just so quichey