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.

Lead instead of led.

Yessss I saw that one today too!

Breath does not mean breathe. The confusion is rife, sadly.

Same for lose/ loose.

I'm interested to know how this sort of thing has become so common. My dad had a village school education, left school at 14 with no qualifications, yet would never have made any of these errors.
Is it the current education system or the fact that fewer people read, so just hear words rather than seeing them written down?

I'm seeing people write are instead of our a lot recently.
I understand that is how many people pronounce the word 'our' but did these people not go to school?

Good question @RaraRachael I think there's a lot less reading these days. My teens watch tiktoks if they want to know about something, they don't read a book or even a googled article. Always videos.

Balling (rather than bawling) their eyes out makes me shudder as it conjures up the image of someone scooping their eyeballs out with a melon baller or similar!

Same here @honeylulu . I can only presume that people have no idea what the base words actually mean. Why would the word "ball" have anything to do with crying?

This reminds of sitting in a provincial airport in Siberia and buying a coffee from the "Coffee Brake" shop.

Argh! Argh! Argh! I’ve just seen someone put ‘peddle stool’ instead of ‘pedestal’.

Breaks instead of Brakes. My God I'm going to dismember the next person who writes this.

First words in a post today ‘was you’. 🙄

I'm on a Facebook page for the Ninja dual drawer airfryer. I have to take a deep, calming breath before I go there, as although the page is helpful, my blood pressure soars with all the "draw" messages.

Why is it so hard? I genuinely don't get it. It's right there in the name of the Group. There are multiple posts with the correct word. Why do they insist on writing "draws"?

A border goes round the edge of something.
A boarder is a person who lives at school during term time.

It happens frequently on knitting and crochet sites.

I think it's the lack of reading, which results in the spelling and comprehension/context of the "same sound, different meaning" words being completely missed, and pass many people by.

@Starseeking I agree. I left school at 15, but I’ve been an avid reader since childhood, so some words just scream ‘wrong’ when I see them.

where/were; been/being; lead/led; boarder/border; draws/drawers; could of/could’ve/could have; and more recently dingy;dinghy are prime examples.

Thing is that if soundwaves are audibly phasing you can feel extremely discombobulated - which is pretty much what being fazed is.

I love this thread, it has been the most soothing thing my frayed nerves have read in ages.
My autocorrect gets words wrong all the time and I often spend as much time correcting a text as writing it. I can only assume that the current avalanche of mangled language is because computers don’t know the difference and people are assuming that computers are always right.
Yesterday had a conversation with my six year old granddaughter about the difference between of and off on her flash cards. She finds all reading very difficult but she loved this.

Text/texted?

I would always say "I texted my friend yesterday" but I more often hear "I text him yesterday"

I know it's spoken rather than written but it gets on my nerves.

Is there a presenter on BBC's 'Homes under the Hammer' who uses it?

No idea, I don't watch it but it wouldn't be surprising, it's very normal in some areas.

It's a bit like the posters on here who clutch their pearls in horror when they hear someone say "Can I get" This is absolutely the norm where I live in Scotland. If I were to say "May I have?" I'd be thought of as frightfully posh and pretentious.

My daughter's Year 2 teacher corrected a piece of her work and crossed out 'would have' and replaced it with 'would of'. I spent the next day finding a new school.

And gotten.