A Viscous Attack # 3

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Ding, ding, round 3 of the highly entertaining collection of misspellings, misuse and general bastardisation of language. The floor is youre’s x

I’ve just googled it, and it appears to be a thing! Not sure what the author intended, out of context, though. Might well have been something completely different!

Some cat whose testicles have fallen out?

faux-pa (MN yesterday)

The energy deficit that the contestants have been running since the first day is now catching up with them, and their bodies have become catabolic (preferentially feeding off their own muscle and fat stores to fuel critical metabolic and cellular processes).
—Alice Park
catabolically

• … the brain needs glucose as the source of energy and it cannot utilize fatty acids or amino acids catabolically.—Miland Watve

Source: Merriam-Webster

@AlbieJiggered

My username for this thread was the result of a similar garbling seen on a thread.

I guessed @Fopar . My username is my real name, obviously.

In the NY Times quiz Connections today: 'vischyssoise' instead of 'vichyssoise'. Surely someone is paid to check these things?
I was looking for a set of four words with an extra 's' etc. Nope. It was in a group of 4 things to make with potatoes...

Spotted today on mn - mute point

Just reminded myself of this one as I used the correct term on another thread, a Facebook post where someone was “flapper gasted”.

Wow ! I haven’t been flappergasted since the 1920s 😉

Someone’s rubbing salting the wounds

😂😂😂🐈‍⬛😮‍💨

On a thread now, someone talking about "bra's" with "motif's"

@CatrionaBalfour The irritating misconception that any word ending in ‘S’ requires an apostrophe

What I find odd is when people think that plural words take an apostrophe, but only sometimes and with no logical pattern. At least if they put an apostrophe every time they are being consistent!

I thought of you all when I parked in front of a pub this morning with a sign saying "Dog's welcome!".

Doe's it stem from people not knowing whether it should be 's or s'? Or is it more likely that they have no idea of the purpose of an apostrophe?

It means when you enter, the staff wag their tails and might try to lick your face.

No idea I’d say. I tell you another thing I’m noticing very frequently; when two words need a hyphen between them, for example: award winning. It should be award-winning.

It should be dogs

I’ve just seen a post on another forum concerning someone’s “gerivence” against their manager.

They used the word repeatedly, and spelled it like that every time. Good gereif.

😧😮‍💨👎🏾

Another one from a recent thread, "most people's addictions doesn't illicit hate in me but does illicit feelings of tedium".

Some of the addictions are probably “illicit”

I have found my husbands working from home extremely challenging...

A refreshing change from the overuse of apostrophes, but I doubt the poster is polyandrous.

Yes, loads of them all disturbing her whilst she WFH

She could have said, ‘Those things over there are my husbands’
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