Spelling Mistakes.

Caoimhgh1n

KungPao wrote: »

This musst be teh most done topic on After Hoors.

*must *the *hours

CFlat

KungPao wrote: »

This musst be teh most done topic on After Hoors.

True dat.

Ave Sodalis

You can tell the difference between the posts I make on my laptop, and the posts I make on my phone. My spellchecker on my phone is awful and often randomly changes correctly spelt words so I don't notice. Posts from my phone are usually riddled with annoying spelling mistakes, which posts from my laptop lack. Silly things like "it" turning to "I". I wouldn't mind but when you tap on it to change it back, it tells you the word you tried to type and more often than not, the word you tried to type is the right one.

dxhound2005

Spelling mistakes can only be identified in writing obviously. There is a lot (not alot) of comment here about mistakes in speech like would of instead of would have. For me not easy to distinguish in speech, and I rarely see the mistake in writing. Either way it is not a spelling mistake.

I'm inclined to excuse people who mix up lose and loose in writing. I have never heard that mistake in speech, like someone saying "I think United will loose the match".

Lose does not rhyme with hose, nose, pose or rose. And of course dose gets it's own peculiar pronunciation. Loose does rhyme with goose and noose but not with hoose. Hoose and choose rhyme with lose. It's all very confusing.

(Country people will know what hoose is).

policarp

Wright. Right. or Rite.

Sow. Sew. or So.

Cee-Jay-Cee

taught instead of thought.

dxhound2005

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

taught instead of thought.

If English did not have irregular verbs that would be teached and thinked (or maybe thunk like slink/slunk). No reason why not when we have reached and thanked.

dxhound2005

sugarman wrote: »

Then & Than is one that really annoys me.

Sale & Sell is another ridiculous one. Come on! "For Sell" ...Really?

On a grammar note, people putting full stops in thread titles annoys the **** out of me. It reads as if they have nothing else to say on the topic.

Where did you see "For Sell"? No native English speaker would ever make that mistake in writing.

unjedilike

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?

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?

Caoimhgh1n

unjedilike 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?

The most common one I see is "your" and "you're".

I correct people about fifty percent of the time.

Birneybau

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

*must *the *hours

Swoosh

sligojoek

My wife used to work as a fitter in a factory. When she'd start her evening shift her boss used to leave a sheet with things to look out for. One thing that always wound her up was when he'd write. "Keep an eye on products coming out of shoots 3 and 7." One night she left him a note saying "Chutes 3 and 7 were fine." He called her into the office next evening to correct her spelling. It was only when they googled the spelling that he gave in.

sligojoek

http://www.newslinq.com/pronounce-this-whole-poem/

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Should have / should of.

People putting an apostrope on the end of any word that just happens to end in an S.

asherbassad

The ones that you all mention are the usual suspects....there, their, loose, etc.

But I have one that makes me want to take a bayonet to a newborn and it is the past tense of the verb "to lead".

That word is LED, you thundering arseholes!

You were not LEAD to believe.... You were LED to believe.

Pronounced the same way, one is the past tense, the other is a goddamn metal, you shower of 2 watt bulb simpletons.

endacl

OK. Here's mine. People using the word 'mistake', when they clearly mean 'error'. I don't care how they spell either. If you intend to point out inaccuracies, be accurate.

Sorry, OP. Hoist by your own petard. Glass houses, an' all dat. Although, I do agree with your sentiment.

:pac:

Totofan99

Your/You're

There/Their/They're

Two/Too/To

Lose/Loose

Where/Were (How do people even get this one wrong?!)

Then/Than

Whether/Weather

'Alot' instead of 'a lot' (Jesus!)

LETHAL LADY

Scandeless instead of scandalous seems a common one on bookface.

osarusan

Had a colleague write in an evaluation that another teacher's comments were 'inciteful'.

Cookie_Monster

nessac neccase nesseccary neseccary necessery necessary

Vandango

Thread should be retitled - The First World Problems Thread

liz lemoncello

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Scandeless instead of scandalous seems a common one on bookface.

That looks like the name of a cheap perfume.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

nessac neccase nesseccary neseccary necessery necessary

One collar, two sleeves.

One eyed Jack

liz lemoncello wrote: »

One collar, two sleeves.

There's one word I've seen misspelled quite frequently -

Mnemonics

CFlat

Vandango wrote: »

Thread should be retitled - The First World Problems Thread

I think the OP is a bored school teacher on mid term break:)

wetlandsboy

Although I lecture in a scientific/engineering discipline, over the last number of years I've had to teach a module on basic writing skills to final year and masters degree students.

A major problem I find, and one that employers frequently mention, is that Universities turn out engineering/science grads who are technically excellent, but who can't string a sentence together. I suspect that this is a product of science/engineering programs, which focus on technical competency and not communication/writing skills. Against this, I notice that American science/engineering students are excellent writers, but I suspect that this is because they frequently have to take a number of humanities modules as part of their degree.

Caoimhgh1n

CFlat wrote: »

I think the OP is a bored school teacher on mid term break:)

I'm not a teacher at all! 😂😊

The King of Moo

unjedilike 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?

You wouldn't put "there," "their" and "they're" in quotation marks?

Badly Drunk Boy

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

"Loan Parent" (people on Facebook asking about social welfare) cracks me up!

You're feckin' single - not borrowed!

And it's not as if all the money they're getting from the social welfare is a loan! :pac:

biko

Car's when it should be cars.
Photo's when it should be photos.

spurious

Collage.