Common Misspellings I've Only Seen On The Net:

[rucky]

I'm not a spelling nazi by any means - hell, I may be one of the worst offenders. but there are some common words that many people misspell or misuse in an informal setting - like the forms of "they're/their/there". I can forgive that - mostly. But then there are others that just baffle me. I'd write it off as a careless typo here & there if it didn't happen so darn often. Here are the misspellings that spring to mind:

"lose" is often spelled "loose" and forms thereof:

Example: If we loose the election...
or - Loosing is not an option...


Also "ad" (short for advertisment) is spelled "add" all the time.


What's up with this? Why is it so common - even among folks who have otherwise flawless spelling (i know these words get past the spellchecker)?

Any others you notice?

[Commendatori]

1. "Definately," LOL (n/t)

[LostInAnomie]

2. I've seen "loose/lose" a lot

also choose instead of chose.

[neverborn]

3. How about switching "g" and "q" -- wtf is with that?

[ET Awful]

4. Actually, I've always been more bothered by. . .

people that attempt to use common phrases, but do so incorrectly. Such as the people who type "once and a while" instead of the correct phrase "once in a while." Another example would be "one in the same," instead of "one and the same."

There are others, but those are the first two that spring to mind.

[stinkeefresh]

8. how about "could care less"?

a simple scan of the phrase clearly makes "couldn't care less" the appropriate phrase, but "could" is used far more often. Even though it means, well, the opposite.

[ET Awful]

10. Good example.

There are quite a few that fit the mold, for some reason they've always been a pet peeve of mine. :)

[Twillig]

16. Ah, butchered phrases. Get ready...have you seen:

for all intensive purposes?

I've had that particular misfortune twice now.

[Lavender Brown]

19. Ugh!

I hear that all the time. Once I tried to tell someone that that phrase has no meaning whatsoever, but she refused to believe that the original was "intents and purposes."

[ET Awful]

40. YES. . . .

That's the other one I was trying to think of when I posted. For some reason it wouldn't come to mind at the time :).

It's ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES PEOPLE!!!!!!!

[Blue-Jay]

5. "rediculous" always makes me cringe.

Even though I'm not the best speller in the world, that one bugs me. Also using apostrophes to indicate a plural instead of possession. Me? I use too many commas.

[prolesunited]

What about this one?

saxaphone <-- That's what you play, right? :P

[Blue-Jay]

15. That one bugs me too.

I even saw some post here a few months ago that they played the saxAphone. I politely refrained from pointing out that if you can't spell it, you probably suck at DOING it.

Now, I'm off to go masterbate.

[prolesunited]

23. Well, it's like you said

If you can't spell it, you probably suck at doing it. Perhaps if your spelling improves, you'll improve your skill in that area as well. :evilgrin:

[Shakespeare]

6. Oh, it's not just on the net.

Having graded more than my share of freshman compositions in past years, I can assure you that's a very common one. Here are some others:

"would of" instead of "would have"

Confusing usage of "went" and "gone"

Confusing woman/women

their/there

"alot" instead of "a lot"

And the one that seems to stump far too many people: confusing the usage of affect/effect (which has resulted in our being burdened with using the word "impact" as a verb by those who don't know how to properly use affect/effect).

Yes, these are my pet peeves. I have many more.... ;-)

[Greylady]

17. I'm guilty of using alot a lot

I try to catch it but my fingers just want to type it that way. My pet spelling peeve is the word *Prolly* for probably. I think this may be because that is the way they pronounce it.

[tishaLA]

37. Oh I type "prolly" all the time

because it's shorter and I don't feel any real need to write properly on discussion boards. I also write "kinda" "sorta" etc. And I don't necessarily separate things with commas when I should--as one can see in the sentence above.

[Taylor Mason Powell]

7. "Propoganda"

Thank you for letting me get this off my chest. PEOPLE, it's spelled PROPAGANDA!! Please type it 500 times to beat it into your brains! You know who you are! PROPAGANDA! PROPAGANDA! PROPAGANDA!!!

YEEEEEEARRRRRRGGHHHHH!!!

I'm not a spelling nazi either, but there are limits to what even a laid-back guy like me can tolerate.

Thank you. You may now resume your normal propogandizing.

:hi:

[alvis]

9. I've got a couple

Would of, instead of would've. Then there's rediculous instead of ridiculous. I see that quite a lot. They're my pet peeves. :)

[gold_bug]

11. then/than is common

[izzie]

12. There and their are always making me re type.

I get sick of making the same error.

[TheSuaveOne]

13. What gets me...

is the hacker leet speak, where people intentionally mispell words such as...

teh
ghey
meh
sux

...there are too many more, but that type of communication really gets to me...la

[-..__...]

32. PrON

Although I suspect that like "teh"/the, people accidentally transposed the letters and for some reason it just stuck and became part of common Internet usage.

[kmla]

14. Your pretty stupid for trying to seperate all of us intelligent people

from all of those loosers and there bad spelling, horrible syntax, and mangling of phrases every now in then.

:evilgrin:

[rucky]

25. I Is Not! n/t

[bif]

18. "Moran"

n/t

[LDS Jock]

48. I never saw that before DU

thought it was some local word.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I guess I'm not that worried about people's grammar use or misuse

I look for what they are trying to say and leave the nagging and pet peaving to elementary school teachers. :hi:

[Twillig]

22. Now I'm 'peaved'

n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. I guess I should have tagged that I was kidding with that but,given

the context of the thread, I thought people would "get it". ;)

[Twillig]

27. So now you call me stupid.

Gee thanks. :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Heh...I'll just go finish batting that thousand now....

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. After receiving several letters from my son's school

with sentences like, "Your going to need to help you're children with there homework. Their counting on you!"

I decided it was time to look for a new school. :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. Man, you're not kidding. I don't blame you!

:hi:

[BritishHuman]

21. You would love this, then...

How Grammatically Sound are you?

I, apparently, am a Grammar God. Woohoo!

[Taylor Mason Powell]

30. Fellow Grammar God here!

(Long-winded didactic message deleted because it turns out Mrs. Grumpy was just kidding.) :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. I am a Grammar God.

Some of them there questions was tough.

;) Kidding of course! :hi:

[supernova]

35. Grammar Goddess

I jolly well should be! I'm an English Major!! :D

"rediculous" is probably my most common mistake. Hey, it's a talk board; I don't get anal, especially in the Lounge.

edit: misspelled "English" x( :crazy:

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. ...and here I thought it was Engrish...

;)

[ET Awful]

41. I apparently qualify as a grammar god as well.

Who else noticed that the "Grammar God" icon was from 'The Holy Grail'?

[supernova]

43. Me! Me!

Heh.

[ZenLefty]

44. I, too, am a Grammar God

But it didn't tell me which ones I got wrong. Or right. :shrug:

[BritishHuman]

46. That really annoyed me too.

I just have to assume I got them all right. :evilgrin:

[geniph]

31. fsck

I mean, geez, the U is nowhere near the S!

[BritishHuman]

45. You're kidding, right?

You know where fsck comes from, yes?

[geniph]

50. Yes, it was a joke

I guess it was insufficiently obvious that I was trying to be funny, or perhaps I was simply unsuccessful. ;-)

[Westegg]

34. Too many to mention, actually...

...and it ain't just on the Net. I get press releases and official documents (on, you know, actual paper) that contain many spelling/grammatical errors. We should all do ourselves and others a BIG favor by buying and studying some basic grammar books. "Strunk and White" comes to mind. But there are several other good'uns.

The futur of the English langauge? Its in yore hands, peeple. Mind you treat it write.

[Dookus]

38. hypocracy

bugs me. Government by hypocrites?

[Deja Q]

42. All words are invented...

Some people know not the spelling of "hypocrisy".

I use the word deliberately. "Hypocritcal democracy." It's quite apropos, very fitting.

[Snellius]

39. Its surprizing how often seperate is mispelled.

.

[LDS Jock]

47. Does an apostrophe count

as a misspelling? The management posted a sign at my apartment complex recently which said...

"Several auto's have been broken into yada yada yada..."

That drives me crazy!

[Taverner]

49. kewl/cool

but that's on purpose