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What commonly misspelled words annoy you the most?

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    #92
    BeardySi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭BeardySi


    Could've as could of


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    #93
    Martin567
    Registered Users Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭Martin567


    Jaxxy wrote: »
    Anyone who says/writes/posts that they're "weary" of something or someone, when they really mean wary.

    I don't understand your point. They have two completely different meanings.

    To be weary of someone or something means to be tired of or bored with them. To be wary of something or someone means to be unsure or suspicious of them. Therefore anyone saying "weary" might very well mean exactly that & not mean "wary" at all.


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    #94
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Martin567 wrote: »
    I don't understand your point. They have two completely different meanings.

    That is my point.
    To be weary of someone or something means to be tired of or bored with them.

    Yes, it does.
    To be wary of something or someone means to be unsure or suspicious of them.

    Yes, it does.
    Therefore anyone saying "weary" might very well mean exactly that & not mean "wary" at all.

    It is obviously all about context. For example, if someone said to you, "I heard a noise downstairs in the kitchen and I was very weary when I checked it out", you would know in this instance they actually mean "wary", as in cautious, as opposed to "weary", meaning tired.

    Seriously, if you've never encountered the misuse of weary and wary, then you're lucky to have FB friends who are literate.


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    #95
    V.W.L 11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭V.W.L 11


    Break instead of brake and vice versa


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    #96
    indigo twist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 500 ✭✭✭indigo twist


    Martin567 wrote: »
    I don't understand your point. They have two completely different meanings.

    To be weary of someone or something means to be tired of or bored with them. To be wary of something or someone means to be unsure or suspicious of them. Therefore anyone saying "weary" might very well mean exactly that & not mean "wary" at all.

    Her point was your point. That's clearly why she posted it in this thread.

    I don't understand YOUR point! :confused:


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    #97
    Martin567
    Registered Users Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭Martin567


    indigo twist wrote: »
    Her point was your point. That's clearly why she posted it in this thread.

    I don't understand YOUR point! :confused:

    I interpreted the original post as meaning that anyone who ever wrote that they were weary of something or someone had made an error as they should have written "wary".

    I've never seen these two words mixed up before and the point of the original post wasn't completely clear.


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    #98
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Wreckless instead of RECKLESS
    There's one man to blame for that one: Wreckless Eric. :cool:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #99
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    If you're on Twiter, then follow The Grammar Garda

    www.twitter.com/thegrammargarda


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    #100
    crannglas
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭crannglas


    glynf wrote: »
    People who use 'to' instead of 'too'.

    These young un's and their text speak..
    Guilty as sin for that. Lol such a boring life you lead to notice :p For me it would be. They're,their. But I could care less. Who am I judging anyone.


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    #101
    curioser
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭curioser


    Compliment instead of complement


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    #102
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    We're all human beans, we all make mistakes.

    Repeatedly?


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    #103
    JeffK88
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JeffK88


    "wierd" instead of the correct spelling "weird" ..... really grinds my gears :mad:


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    #104
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    crannglas wrote: »
    Guilty as sin for that. Lol such a boring life you lead to notice :p For me it would be. They're,their. But I could care less. Who am I judging anyone.

    I hate this one! :( So you do care then? :p


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    #105
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,564 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Spring Onion wrote: »
    Repeatedly?

    Ad infinitum


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    #106
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,987 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    people, have saw it spelled as peple and ppl. gets on my goat

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #107
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    What commonly misspelled words annoy you the most?

    I have more important things to worry about in life, than waste my time with pedantic irrelevance.


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    #108
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Corvus Maximus wrote: »
    I have more important things to worry about in life, than waste my time with pedantic irrelevance.
    Yet you're posting on the Boards.IE After Hours forum. I can smell the cognitive dissonance from here ... :pac:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #109
    2 stroke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    Spelling doesn't bother me much but I can't abide bad grammer.


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    #110
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Tarzana wrote: »
    How do you know if people are saying "could've" or "could of" though? They sound kinda the same, as could've is a contraction so you're running 'could' and 'have' together. Same with 'should'. Now, writing down "could of" or "should of" is pretty bad. I'm just not convinced they'd sound all that different in speech.

    They don't really sound the same. The same people write "could of / should of / would of" so I know they are saying "of" and not " 've".

    But it annoys me even more when I see something that a person has written which uses "of". Do they not even look at what they've written? Or sorry should I say "do they not even look at what they of written" :D :pac:

    I think there needs to be a nationwide campaign against the incorrect use of words like that.


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    #111
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    2 stroke wrote: »
    Spelling doesn't bother me much but I can't abide bad grammer.

    I agree. When he's bad, he's very bad. But he was great in Cheers and Frasier wasn't he?


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    #112
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    I agree. When he's bad, he's very bad. But he was great in Cheers and Frasier wasn't he?

    Whereas she was awful in Beverley Hills 90210


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    #113
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like when people misspell words.

    It makes it easier to spot re reg posters :)


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    #114
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I like when people misspell words.

    It makes it easier to spot re reg posters :)

    Are re regs on average uneducated?


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    #115
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Are re regs on average uneducated?

    Education is nothing to do with it - I know lots of well educated people who couldn't class spelling as one of their strengths.


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    #116
    Tarzana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    tinkerbell wrote: »
    They don't really sound the same. The same people write "could of / should of / would of" so I know they are saying "of" and not " 've".

    They sound very similar. Not exactly identical but very similar.

    Everyone you think has said "of" instead of "'ve", you've also seen them write it? I doubt that.


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    #117
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    I was reading an otherwise well-written article, when horror of horrors, the author wrote "wet the appetite" instead of "whet".

    It did not annoy me, but it was surprising.


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    #118
    whatlliwear
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭whatlliwear


    When people say collage instead of college.


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    #119
    howyanow
    Registered Users Posts: 442 ✭✭howyanow


    For me it has to be people mis-spelling Licence.
    Actually find it very annoying as it seems to be everywhere.


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    #120
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    howyanow wrote: »
    For me it has to be people mis-spelling Licence.
    Actually find it very annoying as it seems to be everywhere.
    Wrong as in "license"? Too much US English going around.


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    #121
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,564 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    howyanow wrote: »
    For me it has to be people mis-spelling Licence.
    Actually find it very annoying as it seems to be everywhere.

    It could be a misspelling. But there are two different words in British English. The verb to license and the noun licence. Similar to advise/advice and practise/practice. So you would have to state the context to judge if the spelling is correct.


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