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

[shushpenfold]

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

Riponite, yes that is, I think, how I learned. But mistakes are everywhere, and there is so much more text than there was In My Day (I'm 35). I'm not blaming just t'internet, but the digitisation of everything which means that these words we see are much more likely to be typed, and I'm sure it's not an original point to say that type lends legitimacy to words, whereas a sign with poorly-formed letters will almost immediately signal lack of literacy.

My senior at work wrote an email saying: "such and such should of been" instead of should have been!! The particular phrase, drives me mental because it doesn't make any sense, at least use common sense when writing, AND I am the foreign one and HE was a superior! And he wasn't the only one GRRR

"this particular phrase"

Ds (4.5) has a tendency to have to replace the Betteries in toys that have run out of go... Quite an appropriate mispronunciation that one.

ooh, don't!
i was in church this sunday (i'm in the choir which makes it worse) and i accidentally sang "prostate" instead of "prostrate".
i was mortified!
(the line "angels prostrate fall")

wouldn't have been so bad if there hadn't been so few congregants that everyone was in the choir stalls for the service so no doubt they all heard it)

haha I suppose new betteries make toys work better, that makes sense

Nicklebabe that made me laugh!

I hate people who 'wonder' around

I have everything alot of the time.

and get those feet off of the table!

Oh that first one was supposed to say "hate" not "have". Sorry...

I rarely - if ever - have the need to say, or hear said, the word flaccid.

However - fith and sikth are not the way the pronounce 5th and 6th!

Also - when did heart rending become heart wrenching.

There's another one that annoys me too but I've forgotten it. Will make a great effort to bring it to mind so I can be annoyed again and share it with you!

In the meantime, I'm getting bored of this.

I rarely - if ever - have the need to say, or hear said, the word flaccid.

However - fith and sikth are not the way the pronounce 5th and 6th!

Also - when did heart rending become heart wrenching.

There's another one that annoys me too but I've forgotten it. Will make a great effort to bring it to mind so I can be annoyed again and share it with you!

In the meantime, I'm getting bored of this.

"Thomas the Tank" - he's not a tank!

Also common at my school were the requests 'Can I lend your ruler?' or 'Can you borrow me your pen?'

Woops!

I get v annoyed with people that 'itch a scratch'!

Am very proud of DS1 (nearly 4!) who always comments in SpaceChimps when one of the characters calls the chimps monkeys. He is very serious when he says that they aren't monkeys, they are apes.

Hmmm... there's less posts on here than I've seen on other threads.

can i axe you sumtink?

I can forgive kids and uneducated people - it's BBC journalists that make me see red!!!!!

All these offenders need to be flogged 'publically'.

Or appeal the flogging sentence at a tribunural.

Openbook, please name and shame the BBC people! Who said what?

UnquietDad, I did smirk as I reflected that perhaps "publically" was an attempt to avoid that dreadful typo which affects some people so pubicly: "publically" has a surfeit of Ls, yes, but not too few!