What spelling mistake do you hate/notice the most?

Perhaps it’s staying put…😉

Top of my hate list: Necessary, often spelt Neccessary. Closely followed by the bad grammar howler: Should of instead of Should have.

Advise used as a noun

Definitely spelt definately grates with me !

Ect.

There instead of their

Your instead of you are

Where and were mixed up.

Where to start?

Possibly loose/lose would be my first choice. Especially where it distorts the meaning.

Accommodation.

I was kept in detention at Grammar School (no pun intended) for misspelling.
Missed the bus home and as we had no phone, Mum was worried something had happened.
I’ve never, ever misspelled it since and it annoys me how estate and hospitality agents, who must use it every day, can still get it wrong. 🤷

There, their and they're.
As for the OP, I was taught at Grammar School to remember that stationery had an 'e' in it for envelope. I have never forgotten it. Texting has a lot to answer for.

Another one who gets annoyed with loose for lose. Is autocorrect to blame?

To/too

There and their

I also shout at use of the singular when its clearly plural.

As for dangling participles!!!

Puzzlelove

Received an email this morning from a well known greeting card from that I use. Why don’t these mistakes get noticed? I hate seeing this spelling mistake.

“Greeting card from”

That’s awful, puzzlelove - does nobody use proofreaders any more? Or is a case of proofreaders being unable to spell, too? A printed ‘classic’ I once saw was a Mother’s Day card saying, ‘If Mum’s were flowers, I’d pick you!’

My pet annoyances are loose for lose, the muddling of affect/effect, discreet/discrete, uninterested/disinterested, and all those plurals of words ending in Y - baby’s, family’s, party’s, etc. Not to mention plurals of the odd one ending in a consonant - bus’s, box’s…..

Just as well I’ve always managed to suppress the urge to correct anybody!

Parsley3

Another one who gets annoyed with loose for lose. Is autocorrect to blame?

I’m another! It seems a very common mistake.

JackyB

Where to start?

Possibly loose/lose would be my first choice. Especially where it distorts the meaning.

Oh yes.
Your and you’re
It’s and it’s
The list is endless.

I did laugh once when I saw an ad for a well-known brand of “pealed” tinned tomatoes!

Life is too (to😀) short

This thread should be compulsory reading for ‘some posters’.

I forgot rein and reign - so often confused. ‘Reigning it in’ or putting ‘reigns’ on a toddler.

And while I’m at it, phased instead of fazed.

Germanshepherdsmum

This thread should be compulsory reading for ‘some posters’.

It doesn’t matter how often anyone posts about loose/lose, the ‘sinners’ gaily go on doing it.

For me, No. 1 on GN throughout the Pandemic?
Sheilding

I hope you enjoyed their ringing grandMattie.

For me it’s all the usual ones:

its it’s
their they’re there
should of
to too two
babies baby’s
ladies lady’s

There are several, but ‘draws’ for ‘drawers’.

‘affect’ for ‘effect’.

‘neice’ for ‘niece’.