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Losing =/= Loosing, and other spelling errors

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  • #62
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I'm not sure I should even start!

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


  • #63
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,832 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    joshrogan wrote: »
    grammer nazis grind my gears

    *grammar


  • #64
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Wrecked/wreaked.


  • #65
    Tzetze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭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


  • #66
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,678 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #67
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ViceA versa


  • #68
    Duke Leonal Felmet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭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.


  • #69
    eamon234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭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:


  • #70
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sesquipedalianism perturbs me.


  • #71
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭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 :p


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  • #72
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,074 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    joshrogan wrote: »
    grammer nazis grind my gears

    GrammarNazis.jpg

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


  • #73
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭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.


  • #74
    earlyevening
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    GrammarNazis.jpg

    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.


  • #75
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,994 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


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


  • #76
    hangon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭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.


  • #77
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,163 ✭✭✭✭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. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #78
    Ah nuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭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.


  • #79
    Dodd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Dodd


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


  • #80
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭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:


  • #81
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭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. :confused: Motoring forum that way man--->


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  • #82
    Dodd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭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. :confused: Motoring forum that way man--->
    Grammar nazi forum. Start your own.

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


  • #83
    BASHIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭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.


  • #84
    hangon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭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. :confused: 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--->


  • #85
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭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.


  • #86
    hangon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭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.


  • #87
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭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.... ;)


  • #88
    Dodd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭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.


  • #89
    hangon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭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.


  • #90
    chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭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


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  • #91
    cleanslate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭cleanslate


    joshrogan wrote: »
    grammer nazis grind my gears

    grammAr :D


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