a small silent scream from a corner of the interweb

[RhodaMorgenstern]

flak
counselling
complementary
hear, hear

As you were.........

[maktaitai]

discrete/discreet

but hang on, I thought flak was spelt like that? It certainly is in my copy of Enemy Coast Ahead?

[maktaitai]

Oh sorry, I see, you are posting the correct versions

[gets coat]

[Pogleswood]

These are all commonly misused/misspelled words,yes?
I feel your pain,especially with regard to "counselling"
Personally I feel that I've been scarred for life by being taught at an impressionable age what "disinterested" means!

[RhodaMorgenstern]

Yes, I've just read 'flack' on here for the umpteenth time and just needed to metaphorically stuff my fist in my mouth and pedants' corner seemed the best place to do so. I know such pettiness doesn't really matter in the general scheme of things but I was at work today and a colleague, who is employed as a writer, wrote 'here here' in an email. A small part of me died.

[squeaver]

The worst thing on here is their/there/they're.

And all the random lols scattered throughout sentences.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

i.e. where someone means e.g.

Persay instead of per se.

[maktaitai]

'Oh fay' for 'au fait'.

Although, to be fair, at least I understand what they mean, and they are having a stab at using a wide vocabulary. But there's something especially dispiriting about it for me - what on earth are people thinking when they actually type that out?

[EricNorthmansmistress]

disinterested...

It's uninterested you dullard.

[singsinthebath]

Heard Mary Portas misuse "disinterested" on her shop programme last night.

[PortiaNovmerriment]

anti-social/unsociable

[cattj]

wala! instead of voila!

Yes, really. Harrrrumpphhh!

[cattj]

Seen in a recent letter about some sham/scam competition:

"You are illegible for the prize drawer."

=> eligible
=> draw

I'd say the author of that letter was illiterate.

[thumbwitch]

Ah but complementary can of course be spelled complimentary and I have seen people using the former when they should have been using the latter.

Agree with others in the list.

Another I have seen is when someone is or is not "phased" by something - the word is fazed. Just because it looks Americanised is neither here nor there - it's a different word.

Vicious spelt either viscous or viscious.

And of course the ubiquitous 'loose' instead of 'lose'.

So many...

[BecauseImWorthIt]

'your' instead of 'you're'

[NotAfraidOfTheBudget]

my boss left me a note to buy some "panna choclates"...she meant Pain au chocolat...

[SherbertHerbert]

Definitely!

[Acanthus]

I got some flowers last week with a note sending me "Best Wishe's". WTF?

[DaisySteiner]

Clique not click. The two words are not homophones either.

[CaptainKirksNipples]

I worked with someone who would give us the daily Budjit's and Target's, I changed it most mornings and she would change it back! I had to leave or I would have murdered her!

[CaptainKirksNipples]

The worst one here is would of instead of would have or would've. Aaaaaargh!

[Littlefish]

A van drove past me last week with a sign that said:

Baked Potatoe's
Sandwiche's
Ice Cream's

AAAAAAAAAARGH

[elliemental]

if i see one more chester draws wanted or offered on my local freecycle, I will turn into a cyclepath...

also please, learn the difference between our and are.

[prism]

I have always made a point of refusing to sleep with anyone who can't spell cunnilingus. This has served me well.

[colditz]

I cannot spell counselling. My spell checker tells me that this version is wrong, but I don't know what the right version is. And on the odd occasion I DO get it right, I cannot, CAN NOT remember it the next time, not to save my life.

[lamplighter]

This was on an advert for Sky TV where I saw aerial spelt ariel. I mean really - they should know better.

Also, on the back of a bus threatening the dire consequences of being a benifit cheat.

Also in a shop window "two cats free to a good home - one male and one female - spade and nuted"