Poker Dots.

[Pieceofpurplesky]

Driving me mad all over the internet - women in their poker dot dresses.
Polka. It's POLKA.
Rant over.

Correct. Allowed.

There are so many things like this, where people write it as they think they have heard it. Is it down to less people reading, and therefore having no clue how to spell things?

Not heard that one - it’s hilarious. I saw propergander (propaganda) earlier, that did make me laugh.

Although, I suppose you could make dots like that with a poker, if you were very careful.

The thing that bothers me re fashion/clothes is "crutch" when they mean "crotch". It's got something faintly Freudian about it.

Ahem, fewer.

(This is pedants' corner).

My sincere apologies

I think propergander deserves a proper gander.

I read somewhere that websites have users not readers. How people read paper-based articles is different to how they use online news pages.

I've just seen another poker dot on Facebook - describing her new dress

I think older people do say 'crutch'. I think there was a discussion on Mumsnet Telly Addicts The Great British Sewing Bee some while ago.

Re poker dots - I pronounce it very definitely pol ka, but I think there might be areas where it's pronounced more like 'poker'.

Where you be from?.

Crutch? For crotch? Older people?

I think 'older people' are as articulate as 'younger people' when it comes to misnomers.

You stick your head in Pedants' corner and make statements?

And pronounce polka dots as pol-ka dots...

Is the 'area' where it's pronounced poker everywhere?

I dunno.

@BootMaker , are you feeling OK?

Where I am from older people would say crutch, and polka as pole-ka but barely sounding the L.

Are you taking the piss in padants' corner? I feel that you are.

You must know that it's spelt polka. But pronounced poker.

Yes!

I wouldn't say crotch. It was a bit like a swear word (along the same lines as cunt).

Is this, or not, pedants' corner?

It's not padants' corner.

Esme on the sewing bee says crutch, and it's what I used to hear as a child

I am enjoying this.

I don't know Esme.

Crutch is not crotch.

Obvious typo.

CRUTCH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Yes. I know what a crutch is.

crutch
[krʌtʃ]
noun
a long stick with a crosspiece at the top, used as a support under the armpit by a person with an injury or disability.

a thing used for support or reassurance:
"they use the Internet as a crutch for their loneliness"

the crotch of the body or a garment:
"the water was up to my crutch"
"overalls reinforced with leather where the crutch took the saddle's chafing"

I know what a crotch is, @BootMaker .

Oh no, I laughed at the title and then realised further down that growing up I called them poker dots - but I always knew what the spelling was. I always assumed that poker was the proper pronunciation of polka dots... I am cringing for my eight year old self (and thank God they've been out of fashion so that I haven't embarrassed myself in the intervening years).