Fazed vs phased

[LapinR0se]

I genuinely think that 90% of people on MN get this wrong and it drives me CRAZY and I want to SCREEEEEAAAAMMMMM when I read it, which seems to be several times a day. I have to sit on my hands so I don’t type “It’s unfazed UNFAZED UNFAZED!!!!”
Seeking refuge here as you all will understand and the others won’t.

I correct people on here and get eye roll emojis and bullying comments ironically telling me I'm a bully. I wouldn't want to continue writing stupid incorrect English so why do others?

The work emails that do my head in are the ones with ‘myself’ where it should be ‘me’.

For example, ‘Please contact John or myself for further information’.

Another one - “a flip switched”. I’ve seen it a couple of times on this site. What’s a “flip” and how can it be confused with a “switch” which is the thing that does the flipping?

Repetition of meaning
'and we went to the beach also!
'but yet they started'
Mainly the and/also combination that kills!

I would of done it
I should of went
Iv done this, Iv done that
Im going out tonight

Aarrgghh.

I'm usually ok at this stuff. I know the difference between disinterested and uninterested; discrete and discreet; bearing and baring and so on, but I genuinely thought it was "phased" as a corruption of "out of phase" as in things not running smoothly. But now I know. Fazed.

fazed: disconcerted; worried; disturbed

phased: staggered, brought about in stages

I'm in agreement with everything on this thread except 'going against the grain': what's wrong with that one?

@napody , 'going against the grain' is when you do something that is contrary to your inclination.
It gets used on MN to mean 'going against the flow', meaning to do or say the opposite of what most people are doing or saying.

If you were working with a piece of wood, you'd work with the grain.
If you were not resisting the flow, you'd get swept along by the river.

Example: Does this dress suit me?

(most posters post comments like 'You look lovely/It looks stunning)
I think that the dress doesn't suit the OP, so I post 'Going against the flow but the dress doesn't suit you'.
If I was going against the grain, I'd post 'Going against the grain, you look gorgeous in it'. Going against the grain because I don't normally lie.

Great explanation! Thanks 😊

Incoherent?

I think the problem with 'fazed' is that it looks so much like a phonetic mis-spelling of 'phase'.

I've not seen 'a flip switched' and can't think what context it might arise in. Of course a 'flip switch' is fine, just the type of switch that can be flipped between its states.

I sent this to some friends recently. Spotted in B&M. I said that it's no wonder that people are illiterate.

'Spelt' not spelled.

Faze is a relatively new verb, first appearing in that form in the 19th century as an alteration of the now-rare verb feeze, which has the obsolete sense "to drive (someone or something) away." In the 1400s, feeze was also being used with the meaning "to frighten or put into a state of alarm.”
‘Phase’ vs. ‘Faze’: Correct Usage | Merriam-Webster

www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/phase-vs-faze

'Spelt' not spelled.

Either is fine. There's pedantry, and then there's overcorrection.

You defiantly should have went mad.

YANBU. But what can you do when built-in spellchecks on Word tried to 'correct' lose into loose and quite into quiet when the context is clear.

@TheLeadbetterLife , you lay something, usually an egg or the table.
Maybe everyone who lays down has a daily expulsion of feathers.

This thread has reminded me, I've long thought that Starfleet should invent a new weapon, the 'fazer' - this would neither kill nor stun, merely discombobulate.

And ‘Didn’t used to’ for ‘used not’ or ‘didn’t use to’.

Would you write ‘I didn’t walked and so I didn’t saw her’?

It's definitely 'Spelt' in that sentence not spelled.

It's definitely 'Spelt' in that sentence not spelled.

I'm pretty sure only case where it definitely must be 'spelt' is if you're referring to the grain.

www.grammarly.com/blog/spelled-spelt/

Can you cite evidence to the contrary?

Also bored of not bored with. Can't imagine the thought process.

Slightly more morbid, but my toes curl when someone says "he hung himself" instead of hanged