three things that drive me mad

[Fleetheart]

1). Why is it so difficult to spell Keir?
2). Considering how many times his name comes up, you would have thought that most people should recognise that Savile as in Jimmy only has one l.
3). Most of the time it should be proved not proven.

That’s it. Used to be a proofreader which does explain my sensitivity, but really, these do get on my nerves. Anyone else?

I'm with you on Savile. I used to live on a street with the word Savile in the name and the amount of post we got with "Saville XYZ" was crazy.

1 Because it rhymes with Pier?
2 Because the Saville spelling is more common? Savile Row only has one L though.
3 I'd use proven as an adjective and proved as the past tense of to prove.For example, proven method and I proved that the method would work.

I normally find obvious errors irritating but this play on words on tv made me laugh when they called the new PM 'Steer Kalmer'.

@PedantScorner I believe you would be using proven correctly, but lots don’t!

And the number of people, including the BBC on at least one occasion, who cannot spell Prince Philip's name correctly.

Apologies for not putting a space after a full stop.

Isn't it compulsory to misspell a celebrity's name on MN threads, especially in a thread title?

He was looking kalm on T.V. this evening, quietly determined and kalm.

The misuse of affect and effect

The misspelling on MN of the names of politicians and celebrities, in whose lives posters purport to have an interest, is rife.

I often wonder if it's deliberate. 'I'm just an ordinary joe, me, not a paid-by-the-word, try-too-hard, spaddy botbot. Honest, guv'.

Years ago, I said to a friend, "It isn't fair. I can't get a job selling my exam passes and fairly good education. I've just seen the latest notice on the board and the posh personnel officer doesn't damn well know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'." My friend replied, "No, but she gives the effect that she does."
I went back to the production line.

People who don't capitalise the start of a thread title.

I hate ambiguity. 😉

I don't really, but I'm doing that "thing" where if someone declares themselves a pedant, you have to analyse every single post they make.

haha, of course!

My username makes me unpopular with some posters on MN.

Adverse and averse
Elusive and illusive
Reticent and reluctant

And of course discreet and discrete.

And infantalise (to cause someone to be like a Spanish princess, perhaps?)

Edited as my proofreading eyes are no longer working.

Councilling.

This new phenomenon of putting words together.

For example: noone and thankyou

They're the hill I’ll die on.

Splitting words. For example, in tact.

Kier, Savile, Lineker... the three most commonly mis-spelled names on Mumsnet.

Isn't the top one Megan Markle?

Keir lends himself to lots of nicknames doesn’t he - “two-tier Keir”, “Cloth ear Keir”, I’m sure many more will follow. I like Steer Kalmer.

No idea. I avoid the "royals" threads like the plague, because the inhabitants tend to be even weirder than the royals themselves.

avoid ...like the plague (sorry)
going against the grain (when they are only going against the flow)

1 The strange amplification and exaggeration in current expressions.
For example: 'excited about' instead of 'looking forward to.'

2 'I was sat.'

Oh and impossible when impossibly is meant. 'Text' rather than texted, for past tense.

Is this something to do with how children are taught to read ( phonics) - know nothing about it.