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.

A small boat is a dinghy. Not a dingy. (As spotted on MN just now).

Yes, that's one of our resident racists. 🙄

Crikey. An actual cheese lounge would be lovely though.

I’ve also seen waldrode for wardrobe 🤦🏼‍♀️

The worst one for me is when people say brought instead of bought. There was a thread yesterday where the O.P. had some pretty horrible things going on and needed help so I didn’t comment. She said something along the lines of, “I’d brought a new dress…” I really struggled to hold my thumbs and not be the dickhead on the post.

Oh and the worse instead of the worst!

Gah!!!

Not so much the same thing but I hate seeing phrases like "she needs fed" rather than the more grammatically correct "she needs to be fed."

👀 at the cheese lounge!

The most annoying error for me is, as pp mentioned, should of etc. Although my phone is desperately trying to correct it for me here even as I type!

On many parking/driving threads there are a lot of curbs instead of kerbs and many breaks instead of brakes. "I hit the breaks before I hit the curb" 🙄

Which way to the cheese lounge?

What about this?

Or this?

Depending on the context different versions are correct. 😁

It is etc.

So many people can’t tell the difference between to and too.

Long established regional usage in parts of NI, Ireland and Scotland. I don't love it, but it's not wrong when speaking informally like on MN.

I adore rest bite. Makes perfect sense, I think it'll take over from respite in the long term.

Ah this is my kind of thread!! Cheese lounge!! I read a Facebook post recently where the poster was citing all the research she had done to justify her (imo bigoted) views on a current news story - won't go into the 'pacifics' for fear of derailing the thread. 😂 She'd written 'ect' twice and I had to literally sit on my hands to stop myself from replying that it was a shame she hadn't done the research (or even believed her autocorrect) on how to write etc!

I think there ought to be special allowances for getting phrases wrong if the results are adorable.

For example, my old colleague thought the expression was "You're the apple of my pie" and (fantastic, this) "going off on a tandem"

Agree! Those are brilliant!

and "payed" instead of "paid"!!!

I laugh when I see someone using rest bite. It does make sense though - you get a bite of rest when using respite if you're a full time carer. It would be good if it takes over. I find respite sounds a bit harsh.

A new horror is where instead of were e.g. "We where sitting in the house".

Edited for inevitable grammar errors!

Now when I was pregnant with dh's one and only dc he was the most novice of child handlers.... My ds was 6 when we met so way past the baby stage.. Never even held a baby. Took him to a well known now closed down baby shop.. Shouting he had found the muslim cloths across the aisles wasn't his finest hour....
I died. Shortest shopping trip ever....

There's a FB group for this very topic, where people post ads for chester draws, nester tables, shezlongs, dinning tables etc. Amusing but also makes me sad that English is so mangled these days.

Nucular, pacifically etc. don't bother me as that's just the way that some people pronounce them - never seen them written down, thank goodness!

But lose/loose is the killer as it's just so common, particularly on MN! Maybe it's autocorrected, I don't know.

If you're not good at spelling, lose/loose is hard because of chose/choose I think. If you know choose then it's not so crazy to guess loose for lose.