Most misused word on boards?

pickarooney

I got really bored and set myself a challenge of finding one correct use of the word 'dirge'. I eventually found what I thought was one instance among about 12 pages of nonsense of someone using it correctly, although it turned out to be a poster quoting the name of an album. Close enough, I suppose.

Can anyone beat a 1.2% correct usage ratio for a word?

Other possible candidates include "allot", "irony" and "there".

flyton5

Their, They're

some_dose

banned

phill106

funny

orourkeda

pickarooney wrote: »

I got really bored and set myself a challenge of finding one correct use of the word 'dirge'. I eventually found what I thought was one instance among about 12 pages of nonsense of someone using it correctly, although it turned out to be a poster quoting the name of an album. Close enough, I suppose.

Can anyone beat a 1.2% correct usage ratio for a word?

Other possible candidates include "allot", "irony" and "there".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvpxz8kdavE&ob=av2n

phasers

Bastard

orourkeda

phill106 wrote: »

funny

Intelligent

Wompa1

Our old friend literally. I was literally flying it home... I literally shat myself with excitement...On the plus side when people don't use it correctly it's pretty funny

NothingMan

Quite/Quiet. I once saw someone use both words in a post the wrong way round.

ie. "The man was very quite, he was quiet interested.".

hairybowsie

"should of"

kfallon

Clitbag!

Micky Dolenz

Loose for lose

Kasabian

Right for write

liah

"loose" instead of "lose" is a disappointingly common one.

"weary" instead of "wary," or vice versa.

Their/there/they're, you're/your, two/too/to.

"taught" instead of "thought," or vice versa. Just because some of you don't pronounce "th" doesn't mean you can randomly add or subtract h's where you feel like it! This is a distinctly Irish thing, too.

There's more, but I can't think of them right now.

mike65

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Loose for lose

Sorry

taught and wat are most annoying.

Ickle Magoo

tread instead of thread is another common one...

loose/lose
been/being
taught/thought (both ways, surprisingly)
of/have (as in 'should of' - NO :mad: wrong!)
weary/wary
then/than
allot/ a lot (alot is NOT a word)
:mad:

oh yeah thread/tread

Feeona

I was waiting for someone else to put down 'thanks' so I could thank it being the smart ass I am

gnolan

threadmill instead of treadmill

where instead of were

really/very unique

OutlawPete

Posting .. Rabble, rabble rabble.

Not so much a word but when some is constantly sarcastic, bugs the fcuk out of me.

Usually they will say that they were being ironic.

Yeah, course you were.

There's a little sarcasm for ya

scientific1982

Your/you're

Truley

heroine addicts :eek:

_feedback_

quiet instead of quite.

I find that quiet annoying.

mike65

Damp Squid

ejmaztec

Would of instead of would have.

Kylo Ren

elviscostello wrote: »

quiet instead of quite.

I find that quiet annoying.

I see what you did there...

--Kaiser--

Aren't most of these examples spelling mistakes rather than misused words?

artanevilla

Romanian/Roma perhaps?

--Kaiser--

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Aren't most of these examples spelling mistakes rather than misused words?

In my case both are words and both are being misused

alwaysadub

tl;dr

It's a word right!

But there /they're /their is probably the most annoying

liah

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Aren't most of these examples spelling mistakes rather than misused words?

No, not really, most of them seem to be misused words. People use them so consistently it's a bit tough to believe they're just typos.

Ickle Magoo

Their/there/they're appear to be randomly interchangeable

Max Power1

Thread Fail

Epic

+1

^this

(all misused here)

amacachi

Begrudgery.

Terry

Random.

DoneDL

In my humble opionion, yeah right

Funkfield

bankers / shower of cnuts
developers / shower of cnuts
FF / shower of cnuts

stovelid

Cunt classic.

Teh

'Overlord' jokes

Cool story bro/tl;dr

phill106

orourkeda wrote: »

Intelligent

thank you for noticing....

Snowie

MA

liah wrote: »

"loose" instead of "lose" is a disappointingly common one.

"weary" instead of "wary," or vice versa.

Their/there/they're, you're/your, two/too/to.

"taught" instead of "thought," or vice versa. Just because some of you don't pronounce "th" doesn't mean you can randomly add or subtract h's where you feel like it! This is a distinctly Irish thing, too.

There's more, but I can't think of them right now.

pendant...:P ughhhhh will you teach me English and in return I'll fly you to the moon in my recently hand craft rocket ship ?

Saila

Is this thread a grammer nazi catcher

OutlawPete

Saila wrote: »

Is this thread a grammar nazi catcher

Yes, and there are some Spelling Police also

Ouchette

Infer, when people mean imply. There is a difference :mad:

Got to be approaching 0% correct usage here but I'm not bored enough to check.

Bertie Bassett

Center. It's like, an American word dropped into the middle of an English sentence?

alwaysadub

Oh yeah, board instead of bored. Have noticed that a few times.

Havermeyer

Dictionary.

^^
Take your pick.

pickarooney

'troll' and 'infract' can't be more than 5% each I'd say.

ilovelamp2000

racist

deman

Surprised nobody's mentioned "aswell" yet.

subway

+1 on inferred.
people use it to sound more intelligent that saying implied but it makes them sound stupid.

mute point
wtf does that even mean?

Nolanger

"just desserts" :rolleyes: