Spelling Mistakes.

Peregrine

This it very nitpicky but 'rein' and 'reign'.

Niemoj wrote: »

I don't have a problem with the continent, country of the United States or people either for that matter.

What I do have a problem with is essentially dumbing down a language just to make yourself seem unique.

Creating your own measurement system... Using a unit of temperature no one else in the world uses.... Creating an illogical way to write dates.

I could go on.

Please don't.

Joey Jo-Jo Junior

Candie wrote: »

'definitely' misspelled 'defiantly'

I really dislike this one but it's slightly comical when it happens.

"I defiantly liked that movie"
"I'd defiantly go there again"

Why so defiant? :P

Niemoj

Peregrine wrote: »

This it very nitpicky but 'rein' and 'reign'.



Please don't.

I said I could, not I will.

One eyed Jack

Viva La Gloria wrote: »

"Were going to the cinema, do you want to come?"


...But what you're asking of me requires both a past and present activity simultaneously.

I don't know anything about the grammatical structure of that sentence, but I'm fairly certain that word doesn't belong there in that context...

Caoimhgh1n

Somebody had a status today talking about how they were Bord.

I sighed.

pickarooney

We where at the match.

When someone can't even conjugate 'to be' in the past tense of their native language I simply give up on them.

feargale

The most common mistake I'm aware of is spelling led as lead. It's allover the place now, even in some of the most reputable international magazines.
Sorry if this one has been mentioned already.

mynameis905

Quite/quiet drives me insane.

"It was very quite earlier but got quiet busy in the afternoon"

vektarman

noone aswell.

The King of Moo

vektarman wrote: »

noone aswell.

*eye twitches*

Junkyard Tom

The only bad spellings that do be does be annoying me are me own. As Buddha himself said 'let he who lives in a glass house... em.. be first to cast a stone' or something along those lines.

vektarman

You need to be on your gaurd with spelling errors.

bnt

It seems to me that many of these spelling errors stem from a lack of vocabulary. For example, lightning and lightening are two entirely different concepts. The first happens during thunderstorms, the second is what Michael Jackson did to the skin on his face. If you understand the two concepts, how can you mix up the words? If you type the wrong one, the sentence doesn't "scan", and so you fix it.

Badly Drunk Boy

Niemoj wrote: »

Irish people tend not to pronounce the 'th' regardless of where it is in a word so if it was "math" it'd sound like "mah" in an Irish accent and say that to yourself; It just sounds silly so we added a 's' because it sounds better.

Behold: Maths was born.

Don't English people say 'Maths' too? In some parts of the country they definitely do. (And in others, I'm sure they say 'Maff'.)

The One Doctor

Being a grammar Nazi is fine, the golden rule is to keep your Nazi tendencies to yourself. For example, I always spot spelling mistakes but my girlfriend is a crap speller. I've never once corrected her spelling or grammar in 10 years. Why? Because making her feel bad every time I see a spelling mistake is a really shitty idea.

The One Doctor

The One Doctor wrote: »

Being a grammar Nazi is fine, the golden rule is to keep your Nazi tendencies to yourself. For example, I always spot spelling mistakes but my girlfriend is a crap speller. I've never once corrected her spelling or grammar in 10 years. Why? Because making her feel bad every time I see a spelling mistake is a really shitty idea.

Would you correct her if she was sending a formal email, CV, something like that?

The One Doctor

bluewolf wrote: »

Would you correct her if she was sending a formal email, CV, something like that?

Usually she gives me the doc and I correct it myself. Better than pointing out errors.

check_six

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Don't English people say 'Maths' too? In some parts of the country they definitely do. (And in others, I'm sure they say 'Maff'.)

Typical conversation with English friend:

Sassanach: "Hey mate, say the number that comes after two but before four."

Gallant Gael: "Tree."

S: "Hahahahaha!" *starts to convulse*

GG: "Ok, bud, you say it."

S: "Free."

GG: "Hmm."


I'm going to put this down to our collective in depth knowledge of the Irish language persuading us to substitute "trí" for "three" when speaking "as bearla". Well, it's either that or a collective inability to pronounce any th- sounds correctly. I'm going to go with the former.

Custardpi

Probably been mentioned already but where/were confusion is one that really irritates me. I've learned to tolerate the their/there/they're thing because they're homonyms & can be easily mixed up (I've even done it myself a couple of times). Where & were are different sounding words however, no excuse for that mistake.

CruelCoin

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Do you feel like correcting it each time you see it?

Oh yes.

I often come across CV with text speak in them.

"Dem" "4", etc.

CV goes in the bin the moment i lay eyes on that ****, no matter how much was left to be read.

Custardpi

CruelCoin wrote: »

Oh yes.

I often come across CV with text speak in them.

"Dem" "4", etc.

CV goes in the bin the moment i lay eyes on that ****, no matter how much was left to be read.

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?

biko

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

check_six

Custardpi wrote: »

Probably been mentioned already but where/were confusion is one that really irritates me. I've learned to tolerate the their/there/they're thing because they're homonyms & can be easily mixed up (I've even done it myself a couple of times). Where & were are different sounding words however, no excuse for that mistake.

Some people throw in the homonyms, some people throw in spelling mistakes like (where/were, to/too, etc.), but the people who do both have no excuse. You're either sounding out the words in your head as you're typing them and choosing the wrong word, or you're not, and you're making spelling mistakes, not both. Just choose one way to upset me!

Some common mistakes like to/too are understandable, but of/off shouldn't be allowed a pass at all. I mean even the guy scrawling on the toilet cubicle door can spell f*** off correctly!

RobertKK

In the past I definately made spelling mistakes.

But now I am not as bad as one can be definitely sure as words spelled incorrectly become highlighted as being incorrect.

TheQuietFella

I look on in amazement at how people incorrectly spell either Garda or Gardai.

We see the cars often enough on our streets to know it by now!

franer1970

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!

Custardpi

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?

It shows carelessness and lack of professionalism. If they couldn't be bothered to get that right, what else would they skimp on?

osarusan

A guy I used to work with used to write in his annual reports that members of his team made lots of 'inciteful comments'.

Custardpi

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?

I'd be concerned about their lack of an eye for detail.

Custardpi

bluewolf wrote: »

It shows carelessness and lack of professionalism. If they couldn't be bothered to get that right, what else would they skimp on?

True, but would it be enough to make you dismiss their application in favour of someone who had far inferior experience & qualifications but a perfectly spelt & formatted CV?