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Losing =/= Loosing, and other spelling errors

Duke Leonal Felmet

Just spotted a thread that makes that common spelling error.

Apart from the classic 'your =/= you're' mistake, what other ones grind your gears?

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Novella

I'm not sure I should even start!

Tho instead of though. Then/than, they are not interchangeable! Pacific/specific.

speedboatchase

joshrogan wrote: »

grammer nazis grind my gears

*grammar

Super-Rush

Wrecked/wreaked.

Tzetze

been/being seen/seeing - lots of confusion
a muck
per say
baited breath

edit: oh, I've also seen 'do' and 'doe' for though

Owen

Brake/Break. The Breaks on my car need to be replaced. DIAF!

I used to date a girl about 10 years ago who spelled definitely defiantly. Spotted her on FB a few months back, added her, and she's still doing it.

Chuck Stone

ViceA versa

Duke Leonal Felmet

Sam Vimes wrote: »

I'm surprised that this thread has gone four pages without someone pointing out the errors in the OP's signature. I thought that pointing out any errors made while pointing out the errors of others was mandatory. Highlighted here:

We have threads here every week about the hundreds of millions of euros worth of oil off the west coast, and lots of stats about how little tax we charge on it, yet we have not produced one single barrel of oil. Here is an interesting graph depicting our crued oil production for the past thirty years. Some people think we are sitting on a fortune but Ray Bourkes dirty deal is losing us billions every year yet nobody, Irish state or private company, has made a penny from Irish oil! Our proven gas resources are also very modest, see here

I didn't author the sig, my boy.

eamon234

The amount of posters on the Bargain Alerts forum who spell it Bargin.
Jesus Christ it's in the name of the thread how can you get it wrong? :mad:

Chuck Stone

Sesquipedalianism perturbs me.

Sam Vimes

Duke Leonal Felmet wrote: »

I didn't author the sig, my boy.

Then I would recommend correcting the errors that a man of your grammatical calibre surely noticed, good sir

dxhound2005

joshrogan wrote: »

grammer nazis grind my gears

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A word which is often misspelled is Genealogy. And it is currently being mispronounced in two advertisements on RTE Radio.

marketty

+1 on the use of 'of' instead of 'have'. That really shows how people just write what they hear without thinking.
A girl I had on Facebook constantly used 'know' in place of both 'no' and 'now' ! Really bizarre, and not even a lazy shortcut as the word is longer! She got blocked, I couldn't be looking at that.

earlyevening

dxhound2005 wrote: »

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A word which is often misspelled is Genealogy. And it is currently being mispronounced in two advertisements on RTE Radio.

I noticed that too.

Here's some more, wet (whet) your appetite and one fowl (fell) swoop.

I keep hearing those.

Badly Drunk Boy

Of the ones not already mentioned, 'truely' instead of 'truly' annoys me. Truly.

hangon

eamon234 wrote: »

The amount of posters on the Bargain Alerts forum who spell it Bargin.
Jesus Christ it's in the name of the thread how can you get it wrong? :mad:

They would be the muslim posters my dear Alllllaaaa.

bnt

I wish people would understand capitalisation a bit better. Proper names of people, places, companies, organisations, and so on, should start with a capital letter. It's Dublin, not dublin, and so on.

The other one I see a lot here on Boards is people forgetting to end a question with a question mark. Is that annoying or what.

Ah nuts

Tihs is all bullhsit Erveynoe knwos taht the hmuan mnid
jsut lokos at the frist and lsat lerttes and flils in the gpas.

That was hardship being drunk and frigging corrective text crap.

Dodd

I am lmfao at the lot of you.
Get a room for your reacharound.:pac:

languagenerd

I've seen a couple of people writing "and all" as "anal". I know they're pronouncing it as "an-all" but still, do they not bloody read what they're writing?!

"I no, cuz hes realy annoyin me anal" :rolleyes:

BASHIR

Dodd wrote: »

I am lmfao at the lot of you.
Get a room for your reacharound.:pac:

Reacharound.

A driving maneuver where a tail-gater moves from left to right to ensure he/she is visible in all of your mirrors.

Motoring forum that way man--->

Dodd

BASHIR wrote: »

Reacharound.

A driving maneuver where a tail-gater moves from left to right to ensure he/she is visible in all of your mirrors. Motoring forum that way man--->

Grammar nazi forum. Start your own.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

BASHIR

Dodd wrote: »

Grammar nazi forum. Start your own.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63152137&postcount=20

I read that, now direct me where did I correct your spelling or grammar. The OP asked what common spelling mistakes grinds your gears nobody is correcting spelling in here so I don't think that that applies to be fair.

hangon

BASHIR wrote: »

Reacharound.
A driving maneuver where a tail-gater moves from left to right to ensure he/she is visible in all of your mirrors. Motoring forum that way man--->

Wish you lot would stop talking American, well anyways Hamilton explained his incident today partially down to not being able to see his mirrors: Specsavers forum here--->

Gyalist

The one that makes me despair is the use of "collage" instead of "college". I see it frequently here on boards.

Also, using councillor/councilling (sic) instead of counsellor/counselling. I once received a ban from PI because I suggested to a poster that her elected local government politician (councillor) was probably not the best qualified person to deal with her issues.

hangon

Gyalist wrote: »

The one that makes me despair is the use of "collage" instead of "college".

believe it or not some boardsies were too busy working from age 13 to attend collage or college, but this is just a collage of many posts i have read here.

Dionysus

eamon234 wrote: »

The amount of posters on the Bargain Alerts forum who spell it Bargin.
Jesus Christ it's in the name of the thread how can you get it wrong? :mad:

number of posters....

Dodd

BASHIR wrote: »

I read that, now direct me where did I correct your spelling or grammar. The OP asked what common spelling mistakes grinds your gears nobody is correcting spelling in here so I don't think that that applies to be fair.

People here are correcting past misspelling be members here so I think it does count.
I could be wrong as I was once before when I was about 6 years old.

hangon

Dionysus wrote: »

number of posters....

I must disagree with you there Sir/Lady spelling bargain as bargin saves a letter,these barguns are vital to buy a scabby curry once a year.

chasm

Happyzebra wrote: »

I also realised recently that I have been spelling 'length' as lenght.

You and the Irish Independent by the looks of it

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/gary-barlow-reveals-lenghty-bout-of-depression-following-take-that-split-2900757.html

cleanslate

joshrogan wrote: »

grammer nazis grind my gears

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