What spelling mistake do you hate/notice the most?

I no wotcha meen.

Dinning room, seen a lot on estate agents’ listings.
Exiting instead of exciting
Practice used as a verb instead of practise
Criterion used as a plural instead of criteria
The most amusing one I recall from a student was ‘haughty culture’ instead of ‘horticulture’.

I've been on a Facebook page recently, which is a group for those who are planning and designing their kitchen with a particular company.

I have found myself getting very agitated by the use of "draw" and "draws" instead of drawer and drawers.

I can understand it a little, as - depending on your accent of course - draw can sound like drawer, but I really dislike it.

Chester draws was a beauty that I came across on Facebook Marketplace.

Rusume

The way I was taught to remember how to spell necessary was "one "C"ollar, two "S"leeves!

As an English lecturer I came across all sorts but the worst I think is from my own, privately educated daughter who insists on pluralising with an apostrophe, for example baby's for more than one baby or the Miller's for friends of hers. Apostrophes should only be used for omission or possession and not plurals. I keep telling her but to no avail. Money well spent!

I still remember the lesson that first introduced apostrophes - I was maybe 7.

Teacher asked whether anyone knew where we put an apostrophe.
The hand of the girl who always knew everything shot up. ‘We were playing with the boys - before the S in boys.’

’NO! That’s exactly where we DON’T put it!

The teacher did sound seriously stern, but, boy, that lesson never left me!

Why do people always refer to the third person after “me’ or ‘I’? Announcers on TV and Radio do the same. Eg. Me and my husband, me and my son/daughter.
Perhaps posters on this site do not proof read when it comes to spelling or grammar mistakes

You’re being very charitable Jenny.

Aksed instead of Asked

The people that know about seeds. The company that —- or The people who—-
At primary school we had a book called “First Aid in English” A friend has just bought a new one. I am sure mine got me through the 11+

Lots of people on Facebook start their posts with " hope this is aloud" , it makes my fingers twitch 😀

Have you noticed some people on TV say "tweny tweny" in stead of twenty, twenty?

JackyB

Where to start?

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

Oh yes. I absolutely hate the misuse of these 2 words.

DrWatson

Mmmm, 9 pages (sorry, page's) of irritations (sorry, irritation's) so far. That number will increase!

I'm not remotely surprised. At some point several decades (sorry, decade's) ago, teaching in this country went severely downhill, and a generation or too (!!) of pupils (sorry, pupil's) were presumably told to spel it ow it sowndz its OK so long as peepl no wot u meen.

These days I have to restrain myself from correcting folk on the local Facebook who write their, they're and there pretty much at random, or the now almost compulsory would of/should of/could of (sometimes with an ov!!) which I see irritates other GNs two (to). The usual claim is to blame an 'auto-correct' facility, though I wasn't aware that also removed the option of checking something before hitting 'send'?!

[NB -- any apparently careless erorr's in the above text may or may not be deliborate. I will/shall now try to consentrate on sumfink else].

Well done Dr Watson, you’d have been top 🥇in Miss Marydoll’s Maffs Klass!

When did spelling, punctuation and grammar become unimportant as long as the little darlings were expressing themselves…🤔

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.

Know rather than Now
Wether instead of Weather
Tryed - Tried
Tired - Tired
Many more come to mind and are really irritating , especially when you can simply ask Siri .

'Loose' instead of 'lose '.

Not so much spelling but I hate people saying “was you” instead of “were you”. It really grates on me.

As a primary teacher, I was on a training course to do with the English curriculum. The course was presented by an education department consultant who, I'm certain, would be paid double what I was getting. The very first screen on her PowerPoint presentation (shock! horror!) was headed, "Who's Job is it Anyway?" and I thought, " Well, maybe it shouldn't be yours! "

The Head of Assessment (salary probably five times mine) for the county I was working for sent a letter to me saying, "Thank you for coming to see Jane Smith and I today."

I’m a bit of a pedant when it comes to spelling & punctuation but don’t get too agitated when it’s probably a typo or auto-correct. What really annoys me is when things are incorrect on a website or notice. Mainly ‘complimentary’ instead of ‘complementary’ - completely different meanings. I haven’t yet had a complimentary breakfast tell me I’m looking good or a complimentary toiletry praising my hair.
But possibly even worse is what people literally do, or do literally. Some have even literally died laughing, literally fallen over, literally torn out their hair …..

I suppose at least she didn't commit the double crime of writing, "Thank you for coming to see myself and Jane Smith today."

The thing is that mis-spellers don't consider their spelling is as important as the message they're trying to put across. They could easily look up the word - there are so many that get confused, but they're lazy. Grammar is something else. Don't get me going.

Milest0ne

The people that know about seeds. The company that —- or The people who—-
At primary school we had a book called “First Aid in English” A friend has just bought a new one. I am sure mine got me through the 11+

I remember that book! I think we’ve still got it somewhere.

Looks like we’ve moved on from spelling, so I can now say that I often want to correct anyone who uses ‘infer’ when it should be ‘imply’.

graykat

Ménage instead of manège

I had to google ‘manège’!

At the age of 78 I have finally learned the difference between stationary and stationery - and that's after winning a school prize for English Language! It's only a few years since I finally got definite sorted out. My daughter who got grade 1 for A Level English Language frequently phones me to check whether she means affect or effect.

My local Facebook is full of pets that have went missing.

lizzypopbottle

As a primary teacher, I was on a training course to do with the English curriculum. The course was presented by an education department consultant who, I'm certain, would be paid double what I was getting. The very first screen on her PowerPoint presentation (shock! horror!) was headed, "Who's Job is it Anyway?" and I thought, " Well, maybe it shouldn't be yours! "

The Head of Assessment (salary probably five times mine) for the county I was working for sent a letter to me saying, "Thank you for coming to see Jane Smith and I today."

I’d have assumed that (Who’s job is it?) was a test to see who’d pick it up!
Shocking to think of anyone in a senior role in education writing any such thing.

I often think the PGCE should start with a test* of grammar and spelling - anyone obviously lacking would then be given remedial English classes.

*I’d happily produce one myself - an A4 piece of prose heavily sprinkled with SPAG and punctuation errors, for them to write out correctly.
I doubt that anything so obviously sensible will ever happen, though.