Spelling Mistakes.

Jamaican Me Crazy

Utdfan20titles wrote: »

You sure he's not dropping hints that he's breaking up with you, but forgot to add a d to love?

Crazy talk. Men don't drop hints.

check_six

feargale wrote: »

Having said that I wouldn't be averse to a reform of English spelling to make it more phonetic. Webster and the Americans have made a modest attempt at it. Studies have shown the standard of literacy is higher among speakers of phonetic languages.

I used to have to regularly speak on the phone with people in very far flung places around the globe. Inevitably, the language barrier would require spelling out words phonetically (a for alpha, b for beta, c for charlie, etc.). We found a list of standard phonetic equivalents approved by NATO. This worked pretty well. However, some of the attempts we got in reply were all over the shop.

We'd hear our contact say something sounding like the letter T, but then go on to compare it with umbrella, or elephant, or windpipe, generally in that order. The result was that you were none the wiser as to what the original letter was at the end of all these unrelated sounding words being spat out at you.

As an experiment, we stuck together a counter-phonetic phonetic alphabet to see how far you could push the boundaries. I'd like to be able to recall all of them but they were along the lines of:

A for Ayatollah or A for Aisle
C for Celestial
D for Django
E for Eye
G for Gnu or G for Gnat
H for Jose
P for Psoriasis or P for Pharaoh
S for Sea
T for Tchaikovsky

I don't think we ever inflicted these on anyone, but we were sorely tempted on a few occasions.

pickarooney

franer1970 wrote: »

I gave a report to the office intern to format and proof for me recently (MS Word doc). It came back riddled with spelling mistakes.
When I asked him why he hadn't used the spell checker he complained that there were too many technical terms and placenames in it, hence going through the whole document was too much trouble.
Well fair enough so!

Had he added the mistakes or had you made them and not re-read your report, or used spell check yourself? Or was it all a ploy to show him up?

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CruelCoin

Custardpi wrote: »

If you read through a CV with brilliant experience, qualifications etc but noticed a couple of glaring errors like this towards the end of the document would you still chuck it in the bin or make an exception?

Attention to detail is vital.

Bin it.

Canadel

Jamaican Me Crazy wrote: »

Using been instead of being.

OH (who is highly intelligent and has fantastic spelling and grammar abilities) does this the whole time.

He might text me 'I love been your BF' (sorry AH) and that's a lovely sentiment in the text but I read it and say to myself 'being' :mad:

I would never correct him.

Your story would suggest he doesn't. It's quite a glaring grammatical error.

Custardpi

Canadel wrote: »

Your story would suggest he doesn't. It's quite a glaring grammatical error.

Some people just have blind spots like that. He could be perfect at every other aspect of spelling & grammar but for some reason never have picked that up.

Sam Kade

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

I am just wondering, what is one of the most common spelling mistakes you encounter and how much does it bother you? I personally, can't stand when people mix up there,their and they're. Anybody else feel like this? Do you feel like correcting it each time you see it?

Whatever about that what annoys me is this Yankee spelling style tires instead of tyres color instead of colour WTF is that about?

Wilberto

Sam Kade wrote: »

Whatever about that what annoys me is this Yankee spelling style tires instead of tyres color instead of colour WTF is that about?

Simplified English for a simplified people.

Ave Sodalis

Wilberto wrote:

Simplified English for a simplified people.

On that point, the first Harry Potter book was renamed for American buyers. The publishers thought that Americans might not think "Philosopher" sounds magical enough and get confused with the modern definition of philosopher. So despite the Philosopher's Stone being based on an actual legend, they changed it to Sorcerer's Stone in America.

Gaoth Laidir

For a while now I've been noticing a lot of people writing it "alot" and "awhile".
Worse than that is the use of "then" instead of "than" (especially Americans, but Irish too).
Of course there are the old reliables too:
"There's" instead of "there are" when stating plurals. Most Irish people use this incorrect usage with plurals.
Speaking of plural's...it should be plurals, unless you're talking about the plural's apostrophe, which is what you put on the end of a plural word to denote possession, not...a plural!

You see it at all levels, from the media to shops...

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Wilberto

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

You see it at all levels, from the media to shops...

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These two. *Shudder*

It's one thing simply 'forgetting' to put in an apostrophe, but putting one where there shouldn't be just demonstrates a blatant lack of knowledge.

byhookorbycrook

Donedeal is a great source of spelling errors. "Pie Ball" for piebald and "screwball" for skewbald are fairly common one as is "driveing."

On the subject of horses, one of my pupils with dyslexia (and really severe dyslexia at that) proudly showed me sentences he had done at home. " I lik to ride hores. Dady liks to ride hores.Mamy deosn't lik hores." The effort it cost that child to take on that extra work and the time it took meant I couldn't destroy him by picking up all the spelling issues.

Some people will never be good at spelling, no matter what they do- but the vast majority of people who make common errors could certainly do better.

Gaoth Laidir

Another one is "should of" instead of "should HAVE". Arrgh!

Means Of Escape

Mantlepiece

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Junkyard Tom

You should of being paying attention in school and lerned too spell loosers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

OldNotWIse

People on Facebook who type "Rest with the angles" when someone has passed.

OldNotWIse

People who say "more then" instead of "more than". Usually intentionally too

wexandproud

Wilberto wrote: »

Simplified English for a simplified people.

it might not necessarily be simplified people , did it never occur to anyone that some people like myself sometimes have difficulty in spelling and i would not class myself as simple , not a bastion of the english langauge but far from simple.
From reading back through the thread some of the people complaining on here about spelling mistakes seem to have trouble telling the difference between spelling mistakes and bad grammar so they shouldn't be so quick to complain

c_man

Permabear wrote: »

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Ah here now, are you not a strapping Irish buck?!

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That_Guy

The amount of people who are applying for 'collage' through the CAO this year is mind blowing.

peckerhead

ya dere in my class rooms reading whats wrote on the bord

Maximus Alexander

Jamaican Me Crazy wrote: »

Crazy talk. Men don't drop hints.

Not to mention 'I loved been your BF' would still be incorrect!

dxhound2005

Two which I have seen around these parts recently.

Auger (a drill) instead of augur, as in It doesn't augur well.

Gaff (a device for landing fish, or slang for a house) instead of gaffe, a social faux pas.

misstearheus

I came across someone earlier with their job listed as a Wherehouse Manager.

Canadel

misstearheus wrote: »

I came across someone earlier with their job listed as a Wherehouse Manager.

Sorry, I meant Whorehouse Manager.

Roger Hassenforder

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Two which I have seen around these parts recently.

Auger (a drill) instead of augur, as in It doesn't augur well.

Gaff (a device for landing fish, or slang for a house) instead of gaffe, a social faux pas.

gaff
"gaff" is an irish slang word for "house", its also used across Scotland and parts of England and Wales
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Wibbs

OldNotWIse wrote: »

People who say "more then" instead of "more than". Usually intentionally too

That one drives me potty TBH. Dunno why as I'd not be a pedant about such things, but yep Than/Then drives me up the wall. Worse, it seems to be a mistake made by otherwise intelligent types.

Wibbs

Permabear wrote: »

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Oh god you didn't…. *facepalm*

Alun

That_Guy wrote: »

The amount of people who are applying for 'collage' through the CAO this year is mind blowing.

Oh dear ...

PandaX9

Any time I see "loose" in the place of "lose" I tend to proceed reading whatever follows with a bit of caution.

Should of/could of/would of - I was taught that the proper form is "should have" etc back in third class when I was 9! How is it that people are still making this mistake?

"Thought" as a substitute for taught is another one.

"I've been threw so much" also.

Clearly, misplaced homonyms really irk me. How other people are able to ignore them is beyond me

JIdontknow

Spelling mistakes like lenght and strenght

Figbiscuithead

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

"There's" instead of "there are" when stating plurals. Most Irish people use this incorrect usage with plurals.

You can use "there's" when the things are grouped together with commas and the conjunction "and".

"There's a dog and cat in the room" is correct.

Mitch Connor

People who deliberately spell words incorrectly annoy the hell out of me.

Lyk dis if u agree.

GET IN THE SEA.

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Gaoth Laidir

Figbiscuithead wrote: »

You can use "there's" when the things are grouped together with commas and the conjunction "and".

"There's a dog and cat in the room" is correct.

But dog and cat are both singular in this example. There's a dog and a cat. You still can't say "There's 3 dogs and 4 cats in the room".

I don't get what you mean about grouped together with commas.

Figbiscuithead

Gaoth Laidir wrote: »

But dog and cat are both singular in this example. There's a dog and a cat. You still can't say "There's 3 dogs and 4 cats in the room".

I don't get what you mean about grouped together with commas.

Not arguing your original point but there's this exception.

"There's a dog, 3 cats and a parrot in the room" is correct going on the grammar book I have. The commas group them together as a list, so you can change the verb according to the first item; even though you're referring to more than one (plural), you can use "there's" if the first item is singular.

But yes, to say, "There's 20 men in the room" is incorrect, though people say it in spoken English.

Gaoth Laidir

Figbiscuithead wrote: »

Not arguing your original point but there's this exception.

"There's a dog, 3 cats and a parrot in the room" is correct going on the grammar book I have. The commas group them together as a list, so you can change the verb according to the first item; even though you're referring to more than one (plural), you can use "there's" if the first item is singular.

But yes, to say, "There's 20 men in the room" is incorrect, though people say it in spoken English.

Ah yes, now I get what you meant. Yes, the "there..." is dependent on the first item (s).

mackerski

Wibbs wrote: »

Oh god you didn't…. *facepalm*

I do actually complain about spelling mistakes in German.

RupertsHabit

'Would of' is pretty annoying.

mynameis905

biko wrote: »

A co-worker of mine keeps mixing up "ensure" and "insure". It's merely a minor annoyance.

Shockingly commonplace though. I see similar mix-ups every day with emigration/immigration and effected/affected

dxhound2005

Another one I have noticed round these parts. Peddle instead of pedal.

Someone claiming that a politician is back peddling, meaning they have changed their minds.