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!

Jeez Athena - is that attempting to say ‘you have to wait weeks...’? That’s terrible if so!

All those people flaunting the lockdown rules at the moment.

@Postspecific it’s a rule isn’t it? C followed by e, y or i becomes soft.

I think you’re probably joking, given the blanc joke, but in case not: Lucy, juicy, cycle.

No I’m not joking. I mean, I was, with ‘blanc’, but mostly to soften the question in case it was a stupid one.

I understand that c followed by y makes an s sound, but I was wondering if we have examples of c becoming s because of y where c had previously been hard c.

I may have been overthinking it.

I understand that c followed by y makes an s sound, but I was wondering if we have examples of c becoming s because of y where c had previously been hard c.

Ooh I have an example! Sarcy.

Alright, sarky.

... And I know it’s, All right but common usage in dialogue means it’s fine.

@Eugenesaxe I think so. I couldn't think of anything else. I was tempted to ask, and perhaps point out their errors but didn't think that would be appreciated 😁

Okay, here’s one. What about ’elecy’? - it’s an abbreviation that uses (what was originally) a hard c followed by a y and maintains the c usage.

... This is where you tell me I’m the only person that’s ever used that abbreviation for electricity.

There’s a prevalence of he’s for his which looks confusing. So it becomes a possessive he’s.

Infer and imply are frequently used incorrectly, even on the BBC no less.

Isn’t it normally leccy? Never heard of elecy which in my head is el-es-ee

Ah I get you now @Postspecific. I have a real feeling there is one (apart from sarky) but I can’t think of it!

Actually, you could use bike itself as an example - bicycle one of my favourite words at school for exemplifying both versions of ‘c’ - and obviously one where we change the hard c to a k in the abbreviation.

You flout the rules.

Argh. I have just seen the correction. For some reason my phone didn't load a couple of pages. Sorry!

“I couldn’t breath”

Argh!

Bicycle - bike

But open microphone - open mic. Which I always want to read as mick.
Why not mike?

Even worse than "chocked" I've just seen "imootion" on another thread, I think they mean emotion.

I've seen a few occurrences recently of eek instead of eke. I don't know if this is a new thing or just that there's more ekeing necessary at the moment.

Anyone else round here cringing at Pritti Patel this evening with her "Martin and myself are going to ..." ?

Numbers from one to nine should be written as words.

Is it that people aren’t taught spelling as much anymore, or that I’m exposed to more of them on the internet (or both)?

Should of, could of, better of - all annoying me this week.

People not knowing the difference between to and too.

Loose and lose - why is this one so difficult?!!!

Your and you’re, again, I do not see why people confuse these.

In primary school spelling is taught as a key subject. Of course, most of those people aren’t using mumsnet.

"Me and Maureen..." makes me literally wince and usually the words "Maureen and I" are out of my mouth before I know it. Then I have to apologise.

I'm old enough to find American spelling used by a British person infuriating.

I'm also old enough to believe in cathedral restitution of corporal punishment for the use of "get" in reference to ordering.

"As regards" instead of "Regarding" needs to be a crime.

me and Maureen
Not to mention myself and Maureen

Loose and lose - why is this one so difficult?!!!

I think it's possibly that lose sounds more like looze so only one o doesn't feel/look right. I mean, lose looks like it could/should be pronounced like rose or nose.

(And an advert appeared in tv for Loose Women as I wrote this )