I thought I'd seen it all...

[Vroomfondleswaistcoat]

...but over on Facebook someone has repeatedly used 'cart' instead of 'can't'. Not just the once, which I could overlook, but continuously.

I may have to delete Facebook. And then burn my laptop.

An estate agent near me is advertising a house in a ‘very sort after location’.

A genuine estate agent one:
'A culinary haven [...] Revel in the rustic charm of exposed beams as you prepare meals on the tiled flooring.'

Don’t put them on a peddle stool

I get an email from the school inviting me to a “brew and bleather” in the subject line. It annoys me so much I can never attend the event. Is it too pedantic to tell them to fix the error.

Is it not an auto-correct of someone spelling it carnt?

Walla?

Voilà!

These are making me angry and stopping me from sleeping 😭

My favourite ever is someone saying they felt they were used as an 'escape goat'.

My daughter's lovely ex once said he would 'play it by year' ... That one stuck. Now we all use it 😂

Someone did that on wheel
of fortune last night and lost the money. Oh, how I laughed.

‘Misewell just give it a go!’ is my recent favourite

Scapegoat does literally mean ‘escape goat’ though. It’s a term which was apparently coined by Tyndale when translating Leviticus from Hebrew into English. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scapegoat

Yes, it's actually a perfectly reasonable use of the word, which means "unfaithful". We only use it now in a religious sense, but it's not exactly wrong to use it to refer to an adulterer, really, is it?

I find I'm mellowing with regards to all this as I get older. If you don't read books or newspapers, if you didn't grow up reading them, you'll only know a lot of these words and phrases from hearing (or mishearing) them. Not everyone had the advantages I had growing up in a house full of books with educated and intelligent parents.

My gran always told me never to laugh at someone mispronouncing a word because it meant they learned it from reading (and indeed my DH had to break it to me that I'd spent my early adult life mispronouncing "quotient" and "escalope", for example).

We're all aware of the possible reasons for poor spelling and grammar.
In Pedants' Corner we can seethe freely without judgement, thank you.

Could it be predictive text as someone said above? My phone hates me typing ‘hell’ or ‘well’ it gives me ‘he’ll’ or ‘we’ll’!!!

I agree with what you day about mispronouncing words due to learning them through reading but not necessarily the rest. I think a lot of it is through wilful ignorance.

My parents both left school at 14 and had no formal qualifications but read a lot and our Saturday visit to the library was a fixture. You don't have to own the books you read and if you want to spell and speak grammatically you can learn. My youngest grandson is 14 and his spelling is erratic but he is keen to learn and not offended by correction because he is aware there is a right way.

Yes, my phone insists on inserting apostrophes where not welcome - we’re, I’ll, he’ll etc. Could we pin the blame on Apple? Who do I write to?

I think this is definitely part of it. My phone always used to offer up 'defiantly' as the first option after def... but I seem to have trained it now. I still get rogue apostrophes. People should proof read before hitting Send.

It seems to me that proof reading is becoming something of a lost art. I recently heard a BBC newsreader report that a young man had been rushed to hospital having been almost stabbed to death. I couldn't work out why since (by that grammar) the knife had missed.

I was recently sent the script to approve for a close relative's funeral. It was full of errors which I patiently corrected. The celebrant decided she knew better than me...it's perfume, ballarde, lot's of work etc. and that is what she read out at the service. Afterwards, she handed me her copy "as a memento" clearly not being professional enough to recognise that page after page of error-strewn writing is an insult not a gift.

Don't get me started on the incorrect usage of the word only....I only want to talk to you versus I want to talk only to you.

I think it’s possible to turn off auto punctuation - most of the time it’s ok (like just there it correctly inserted an apostrophe for elision) but very annoying when it gets it wrong. It’s most annoying problem IMO (I’ve deliberately left an example there!) is wrongly putting an apostrophe in the possessive “its” . Another annoying one is “ill” getting changed to I’ll.

Thanks @ErrolTheDragon ! I've done it just now - ironically in the options menu it claims "Smart Punctuation"...

Ah! Thank you ☺️

That's a bit of a shirty reply. I'm sorry you felt judged for being judgmental.

To the second person who quoted me, yes, you make a good point about self-improvement. Maybe that's on the decline.

I've read an email this morning that says 'we have resived the below email...' a professional email, the mind boggles!

Mispronunciations are understandable. But as to reading - libraries are a thing. You don't need a house full of books in order to read. But many many people just...don't. They can't see the need for books and think they are 'boring'. Then they only read online and perpetrate these misspellings and awful calumnies on language.

This is because people a) don't enunciate properly and b) don't read. See also:
Pack lunch
Mix grill
Cut and dry (I mean the expression "cut and dried" as opposed to what you might have done at the hairdresser's).