Why can't people spell "faint"?

[Cookerhood]

I keep seeing "feint" instead of "faint" on Covid test threads. Why? Surely "faint" is a simple word with "feint" being more unusual?
(I've now typed it so often that both look odd )

I wouldn't mind confusion between faint/feint so much. It's more the common words like there/their/they're and your/you're that get me .

@ErrolTheDragon

Possibly, but mostly I'm just internally screaming "THEY'RE 2 SEPARATE WORDS!!!" every time I come across it!

Peel/pique/peak.

They all mean different things.

And when people use ‘girlfriend and I’s something or another’. My brother has just sent a text like this and I am biting my knuckles to not respond as it’s about his engagement. But seriously?! It’s a WhatsApp, autocorrect won’t allow you to type ‘I’s’ without suggesting something else BECAUSE IT’S WRONG!

It’s too early to be getting riled at this shit

FFS.

PEEK / PIQUE / PEAK.

Hoisted by my own petard

Disappointed that in this oasis of correctness someone has typed of instead of have twice in one post.

@Itwasntmeright

Definately OP, you would of thought people would of noticed at some point during their life they were writing it incorrectly.

I can spell definitely and I do know it’s would have BTW.

Oh the irony... Sorry, but this made me smile

What's the best way to improve grammar? My spelling is fine. I know my there, they're and theirs etc. But I struggle with grammar, no idea where an Oxford comma is supposed to go and tend to use punctuation wrong.

I use emojis a lot now to get a point/feeling across. I always have to look up stationary and stationery.

I promise I went to university!

I struggle with grammar too. Growing up in the 1970s it wasn't very trendy to teach grammar.

Or punctuation.

@Cookerhood

I struggle with grammar too. Growing up in the 1970s it wasn't very trendy to teach grammar.

You admit to struggling with grammar, though, which is what some people don't even know or care about. I think that we all learn throughout our lives. When lockdown was on so many children missed school. I wished then, and I still wish, that BBC and ITV would be constrained by law to show a 5-minute programme every evening at 6p.m., with lessons in basic English and basic arithmetic. Adults who missed something along the way can watch without anyone knowing that they didn't know something, while pretending it's on to help the children. If governments can put out public service stuff when it comes to Aids or vaccinations, they could do the country a favour and plug the basics in a short dose every day.

@Abra1d1

And defiantly for definitely. Why??

Autocorrect for DEFINATELY (or similar) I think.

@Dontlooksup

I have never seen this.

My DD can't spell. Teachers think she is dyslexic but she hasn't been officially diagnosed. She spends ages learning her spellings every night and gets them all wrong every morning. I really worry that she will feel bad about this her whole life as pointing out that other people can't spell seems to be a bit of a hobby for some people.

I've been scrolling through the comments on this and just wanted to say one word : dyslexia !

Im 27 and it's is what it is, I understand that people get up in arms about little these things but your daughter should be proud of who she is ( it might take time as it's hard) and that she will see the world differently and most likely be more creative.

There is a lot of support going through school, collage and university and I got through them all being severely dyslexic.

People will judge but that is just a reflection on them.

The fir instead of for is definitely a typo. I do it regularly

I'd know feint and faint if I thought about it but I might type it incorrectly.

I saw a couple of social media posts yesterday referring to Valentimes Day.

I wasn't taught grammar at school in the 70s either, but every piece of written work lost half a mark for each spelling/grammar mistake.

I though fir for for (eh?) might be Scots/NE England dialect

Though it is likely to be a typo seeing as the o is next to the i.

I always put random. in. sentences. when. I. type on my phone as I hit the full stop instead of the space bar.

I saw a couple of social media posts yesterday referring to Valentimes Day

I had a conversation with myself in my head as to whether it was Valentines' Day, a day for all the many valentines, or Valentine's Day for St Valentine, and decided on the latter.

Yes, it's thee feast day of St Valentine, so it's Valentine's Day. In the same way it would be St George's Day.

Prithee, but then we have Mother's Day. Just for the one mother? I guess it's really Mothering Sunday and all bets are off.

@JayAlfredPrufrock

Disappointed that in this oasis of correctness someone has typed of instead of have twice in one post.

Someone clearly did that deliberately, along with a couple of other howlers - not an example of Muphry's Law in action in that case.

I didn’t read to the end of the post as my eyes were bleeding.

I always have to look up stationary and stationery

E for envelope = stationery
A is in car = stationary traffic