To suggest that people use this time to learn the difference between..

[LidlDonkey]

Your and you're
Their, they're and there

And when to use an apostrophe.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe you and I go back years. I was Bucharest back in the day.

That would be time well spent indeed.

But someone will tell you you are a twat for thinking that it matters.

Can I add boarder and border as that's making me feel quite stabby at the moment

This I agree with. I learned to accept the would of, I came to ignore the loose, I manage when I see the devine, but the boarders worry me, I have images of a horde of snowboarders. Or was that a hoard?

Can you borrow me a ...
Breathe and breath

I see boarder for border EVERY BLOODY WHERE at the moment.

Hello Bucharest, we do indeed. Nice to see you again.

I am getting a little irritated by people telling me what I am 'aloud' to do during lockdown. I can't get too excited about it all though.

YANBU.

Also lose and loose, his and he's, been and being.

PieceofMaria, A twat for thinking it matters? No. Posting to put other people down for their SPaG? Yes.

There's a difference between having a discussion about what words mean and checking them for yourself, that's what Pedants' Corner was, and it was a great place to check.

It was never what this thread is, ie. a put-down and designed so, used for a group snide-fest against 'perpetrators'. The fact that so many errors are made by so many busily critiquing seems to be lost on the thread too.

I can't believe that some posters are seemingly incapable of nuance; they certainly are when it matters to them. Perhaps berating people for incorrect/misuse of SPaG is on the 'fun' list for some? I don't know or care but these threads always cause upset which says a lot.

OP,

You suggest that we learn the difference.

As you've gathered our attention, why don't you TEACH the difference?

Firsttimelottie, a great idea!

It isn't that it doesn't matter.

It's that this is a parenting forum, not a literacy class.

I'd love to see some of you hold your own with actual decent writers and users of English on MN though. People who write beautifully and have a command of English usage which is second to none. Who, strangely, never seem to feel the need to start twatty posts like the OP to humiliate others.

Prostate & prostrate.
An acquaintance had investigations into prostate problems so we heard about his possible prostrate cancer. Thankfully all was well with him but I do wonder why the doctors never corrected him.

Alot of people on this thread are defiantly discusted.

Surely we are aloud that, Crystal?

This hasn't been a parenting forum for a very long time.

I quite (or quiet) like the use of 'loose' for 'lose'.

'Loosing' weight sounds a positive and powerful act.

I can't be arsed to check, has the Op been back?

I'm chuckling away to myself with the fact they've had their backside royally whipped.

Can anyone give me any advise?

I am weary of getting a take away.

I don’t want to loose my cat

Definitely and defiantly

I think they have probably been back. Just not as we originally knew them

I'm heartened to see this reaction. There are threads not in Active anymore started by a group of nasty pieces of work specifically to talk about other posters' English.

Your out of order OP

I hope people use this time to stop being stuck up pricks. You going to?

I know the OP is coming in for some flack but certain errors do grate! "Alot" does my head in. How hard is it to just tap that little space bar in between?

Agree 'alot' and 'abit' are grating. They are even highlighted on spellcheck as errors.

Loosing weight sounds like you've put it on a trebuchet