For the love of god its drawer..

[hobbledyhoy]

...not draw.

Aaarrrggghhh!

Didn't want to be the arsehole and put it on the thread but I scream inside every time I see it. Feel a bit better now.

How are we going to stop the great tide of people who are spelling a lot as "alot"?

Five years ago I would see it maybe once a week now I am seeing it several times a day on social media.

Same it drives me nuts.

It's so bad that I perhaps read a post and think I could offer some advice then read they put draw instead of drawer and on that basis I don't respond 😂

Beyond help, there's nothing you can do 😂

Is this as in I'm a good drawer, but not that good at painting?

I've heard tv gardeners and wildlife documentary presenters say 'an enemy' instead of anemone. That one really drives me round the bend. They are supposed to be the experts.

And don't get me started on cancer research tv advert voice-over artists infuriatingly saying 'ree-search'.

*Also a lot of (American) instagrammers writing ‘I’m balling!!’ ‘I balled my eyes out"

That reminds me of another FB selling one someone posted on here - selling baubles but it was written "ball balls"

Dd's Y2 teacher had a Stationary Drawer.

At least it wasn't a Stationary Draw.

The one I can't stand is "rest bite".

I've seen it so many times here in MN, it makes my skin crawl lol.

*here on MN

Hense for hence

Seen a few chester draws for sale on FB

I fucking hate Chester Draws!

Both words are right, depending on context. Totally different meanings.

The one that always gets me is when someone writes that they are wrapped about something. I get a mental image of them wrapped up in Christmas paper. You're not wrapped, you're rapt!

I found a "it's not Chester draws" group on FB recently from a suggested post. Someone shared this beauty there.

A gradual return to work is "phased". Being bothered about something is "fazed".

Please email myself. Contact myself next week. Myself and my husband. Ahhhhhh! So many people misuse the 'myself' word!

I want to start a campaign to bring back the word ‘drawers’ for big knickers.

We can keep them in our chester drawses.

I gifted a chest drawers on my local Facebook recently, spelt correctly. Someone then asks if they can have the "draws"! I mean, the correct word was in the title, so surely you can at least get it right!

The other one I see more and more is "been" instead of being. It drives me mad, it means something completely different. I work on a rehab ward, and above the patients bed there is a board which they right what the patient expectations are. One of the nursing staff wrote for the patient " been able to walk"! It totally changes what the patient actually wants

Wow! Really?

I've been nodding along to all of these, then this popped up and I absolutely say "she's so wrapped up in herself" and this is actually wrong??!

Oh. Embarrassing.

That is correct, wrapped up and rapt are different phrases

Wrapped up means like, preoccupied. I'm wrapped up in my work.

Rapt means attentive. Rapt at the theatre.

Not exactly the same but similar meanings

My favourite is when two idioms get confused. I have a lot of sympathy because I was raised in English by a non native speaker.

Seen on mumsnet recently:

Given up the goat
Passing the bullet

In the context you quote, you are actually correct to say wrapped up in herself. Rapt is more to do with being very happy, when it's used on the forums. You can be rapt as in 'caught up'. Even rapt has two applications.

So, ‘rapt attention’, the ‘rapture’ (the return of Christ). The root idea is to be seized by something, to be in its grip.

But if you wrap your presents very quickly you are a Velociwrapper.