For god's sakes it's Choked!

[Veterinari]

I keep seeing 'chocked' and in my mind all I can see is someone choking on a giant wooden block

How do people not know that adding the c totally changes the pronunciation? Where does the c come from? Why would you think it's needed?

To choke
I choked
He is choking

Just 1 c!

I just remembered one of my kids' school's ones. One term- end progress report from the primary included:

"[Name of daughter} is very good at reading allowed."

You flout the lockdown rules by walking the dog twice a day.
Does a flautist flaut? I’m not sure.

flora I know, as soon as I posted it I realised! The Shame!

True pedantry comes from the soul. Minor details can be disregarded.

Isle instead of aisle & board instead of bored both really get me!

This was on a parents chat group about screen time :- “ Seem as their not allowed out with friends - they get board so easily”. What chance do the kids have?’

Recent pet hates are hoards/hordes and bare/bear
as in:
Hoards of visitors descend on coast...
and
Bare with me or I can't bare it

Thesandman - I often see the other way round eg on a selling page “ Delete if not aloud”

Your instead of you’re is everywhere! I had a friend who was a primary school teacher & a school governor who used “ your” instead of “ you’re” 😮

Judy- I was referring back to the OP's explanation of the 2 mistakes in her thread title as being because she'd never seen it written down before.

@Veterinari
Since lockdown this topic has “quiet “ honestly been “chocked “ to death 😂

I saw someone recently selling a “foot stall” on Facebook!

Diffuse and defuse gets me

Surely as an abbreviation of sarcastic, it is spelt ‘sarcy’. 🤔

Does god have a capital letter if he/she/it doesn't exist?

Surely as an abbreviation of sarcastic, it is spelt ‘sarcy’

The problem with that is that the y after the c would change its sound so it would be pronounced sarsee, as in cycle or cynical.

It's sarky, not sarcy. Sarcy would be pronounced sarsee The word sarcastic isn't pronounced sarsastic.

Cross post there by me.

I read something on the BBC website the other day that said 'upmost'!

A comment on a friend's FB post this week really confused me. I had to read it several times before I understood what the person meant. "You after wait weeks to get one" The person also used weather instead of whether, and you're instead of your. 🤦

Do you think if all us pedants signed up to Mumsnet Extra they would give us a whole room, not just a corner. We would keep it tidy, we really would.

Oo, I'd sign up to Mumsnet Extra if it included rules against "could of", "chocking" and most of the other howlers cited on this thread.

Yes I work in a school and grammatical and spelling errors are very common.

My DS is in Y5 and says their HOY often does the PowerPoint presentations for the other teachers to use, and that ‘most times’ they find an error. DS’s own teacher is wont to say ‘Another Mr T- classic’, about them 😂

Why would the y automatically change the sound of the c to s? I’m trying to think of another example but I’m drawing a blanc.

I was in a line outside the supermarket today, and a sign outside the pharmacy said ‘The que for the pharmacy is marked with red lines. If your standing on the yellow lines your in the wrong que.’