What commonly misspelled words annoy you the most?

Aongus Von Bismarck

Is it just me, or is the standard of spelling, particularly amongst younger people, absolutely atrocious?

People spelling college as collage is the one that irks me the most. What about you?

mikeyjames9

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Is it just me, or is the standard of spelling, particularly amongst younger people, absolutely atrocious?

People spelling college as collage is the one that irks me the most. What about you?

Angus

RGDATA!

Antidisestablishmentarianism

dxhound2005

Halcyon, pantomime and Drumshanbo.

But they don't annoy me at all.

glynf

People who use 'to' instead of 'too'.

These young un's and their text speak..

allthedoyles

laods

Loose/lose
Breath/breathe
Your/you're

fleet_admiral

Grammar

osarusan

発音

Hate it when that's wrong.

Sam Kade

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Is it just me, or is the standard of spelling, particularly amongst younger people, absolutely atrocious?

People spelling college as collage is the one that irks me the most. What about you?

Don't get me started on people who overuse commas in a sentence especially when they are not needed

FloatingVoter

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Is it just me, or is the standard of spelling, particularly amongst younger people, absolutely atrocious?

People spelling college as collage is the one that irks me the most. What about you?

In general: Some people who are going to college or have been through such hallowed halls. They can still leave with a doctorate and an inability to spell their way through a simple sentence. I'm not talking about late night on a net forum when people are tired, drunk or typing fast. I mean in an essay that they're submitting for an assignment or later on, a report for work. Simple things that a spell checker will pass on but are patently wrong at a glance - (spell that "patently" as "patiently" and see what Word says about it).

Mountainsandh

Seperate
To/too

Bad spelling irks me, whatever the word, especially in public news outlets (it is part of their job to use language correctly). Even the RTE news website is not immune !

Aongus Von Bismarck

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Seperate
To/too

Bad spelling irks me, whatever the word, especially in public news outlets (it is part of their job to use language correctly). Even the RTE news website is not immune !

The Journal have to be the worst offenders. That "news outlet" reads like a transition year work project.

131spanner

Lose - Loose.
To - Too.

The whole they're, there, their thing too, pretty basic stuff!

wow sierra

quite instead of quiet

there instead of their

Mountainsandh

Laods of ofenders.

My local newspaper is very obviously not proofread: syntax, spellings, omissions, typos... Have they no pride in what they do ?

Karl Stein

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Is it just me or is the standard of spelling, particularly amongst younger people, absolutely atrocious?

People spelling college as collage is the one that irks me the most. What about you?

I took that surplus comma out of your first sentence. I'm collecting surplus comma's and using them incorrectly, as apostrophes, to annoy people like you.

upandcumming

Wierd.

CollyFlower

Fcuk U.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Karl Stein wrote: »

I took that surplus comma out of your first sentence. I'm collecting surplus comma's and using them incorrectly, as apostrophes, to annoy people like you.

I speak in a slow and deliberate manner. It lends gravitas and authority to my speech. The commas in that sentence are a reflection on how I speak.

dxhound2005

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Seperate
To/too

Bad spelling irks me, whatever the word, especially in public news outlets (it is part of their job to use language correctly). Even the RTE news website is not immune !

It would be clearer if you spelled Separate correctly. Some people may not have recognised Seperate as a misspelling.

The Backwards Man

gorjus

AnonoBoy

RETAIL

Some people spell it RETAIL when it's obviously supposed to be RETAIL.

Witcher

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I speak in a slow and deliberate manner. It lends gravitas and authority to my speech. The commas in that sentence are a reflection on how I speak.

Well either that or it makes you look slow in the head :pac:

Mountainsandh

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It would be clearer if you spelled Separate correctly. Some people may not have recognised Seperate as a misspelling.

True.
Then again, it is a thread about wrong spellings...

The Backwards Man

AnonoBoy wrote: »

RETAIL

Some people spell it RETAIL when it's obviously supposed to be RETAIL.

Sales

AnonoBoy

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Sales

Gah! I should have spell-chequered my post!

dark crystal

Been and being. I see those two mixed up a lot on here.

Also tread and thread. People calling a treadmill a threadmill.....grrrrr.

The Backwards Man

dark crystal wrote: »

Been and being. I see those two mixed up a lot on here.

Also tread and thread. People calling a treadmill a threadmill.....grrrrr.

I love been a has being

AnonoBoy

dark crystal wrote: »

Been and being. I see those two mixed up a lot on here.

Also tread and thread. People calling a treadmill a threadmill.....grrrrr.

Thread lightly because you thread on my seams.

Karl Stein

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I speak in a slow and deliberate manner, it lends gravitas and authority to my speech.

A comma between your first two sentences would be preferable to a full stop as what 'it' refers to becomes unambiguous.

Aubrey loves Joe

Lil ta b worrin bout lads

dxhound2005

We're all human beans, we all make mistakes.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Karl Stein wrote: »

A comma between your first two sentences would be preferable to a full stop as what 'it' refers to becomes unambiguous.

I'm afraid that would be incorrect. A semi-colon would serve, or perhaps a conjunction like 'as' or 'because'. However, breaking it into two separate sentences is completely fine.

Shakespeare's Sister

lodes off rong speeling anoy me

Fingers!

Why is it so hard to spell dislexic?

Mountainsandh

Karl Stein wrote: »

A comma between your first two sentences would be preferable to a full stop as what 'it' refers to becomes unambiguous.

I genuinely fail to see how "it" could be ambiguous here tbh.

Karl Stein

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I'm afraid that would be incorrect. A semi-colon would serve, or perhaps a conjunction like 'as' or 'because'.

A semicolon would be correct if the second sentence could stand alone unambiguously. The second sentence was rendered ambiguous due to your misuse of a full stop.

However, breaking it into two separate sentences is completely fine.

Not for those who demand high standards of others.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Karl Stein wrote: »

A semicolon would be correct if the second sentence could stand alone unambiguously. The second sentence was rendered ambiguous due to your misuse of a full stop.



Not for those who demand high standards of others.

When separating two complete but related sentences you use a semicolon. Using a comma in that instance is incorrect.

I would stop pursuing the course you're on at the moment. Firstly, as you will look like a fool, and secondly, I believe it's against the rules of this forum.

Mountainsandh

Plus for "it" to be ambiguous, there would have to be two possible referents, I honestly don't see what could be the other referent in the sentence.

Karl Stein

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I genuinely fail to see how "it" could be ambiguous here tbh.

It lends gravitas and authority to my speech.

The sentence above is meaningless, by itself, because 'it' refers to nothing.

Each sentence should make sense independently. The sentence above only makes sense if we ignore the full stop that preceded it.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Karl Stein wrote: »

The sentence above is meaningless, by itself, because 'it' refers to nothing.

Each sentence should make sense independently. The sentence above only makes sense if we ignore the full stop that preceded it.

*facepalm*

Mountainsandh

"It" refers to "a slow and deliberate manner", the manner in which an action is accomplished. That's not nothing.

Pronouns can perfectly start a sentence, whether they refer to a person, an inanimate object, or even a notion.
"I hate racism. It makes me angry."
"I walk fast. It helps me think."

Are these ambiguous ?

Karl Stein

Mountainsandh wrote: »

"It" refers to "a slow and deliberate manner", the manner in which an action is accomplished. That's not nothing.

Only if you ignore the full stop.

It seems the OP is getting irked by this discussion. I take no pleasure in stressing people out so I'll leave 'it' at that.

FloatingVoter

"It" is a clown called Pennywise in Stephen King's second finest work.

Simonigs1.0

Principal - Principle.

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

JohnMearsheimer

Alot. A lot of people seem to think it's one word.

sunbeam

Carers and careers and the people on the Carers forum who cannot tell the difference between the two in spite of notice at the top of it.

dxhound2005

It doesn't annoy me. Nothing about language, spelling or grammar annoys me. But for the benefit of anyone who thinks there is a phrase Ying and Yang, it is actually Yin and Yang.

Tigersliding

Prostate as prostrate.

PhoenixParker

Phase being used instead of faze.