What spelling mistake do you hate/notice the most?

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.

Oh the irony indeed! There’s a sentence in the OP that doesn’t make sense.

These spelling/ grammar threads are so unpleasant and divisive. Many people are dyslexic, or simply careless in their typing - but they may be (or have been) a superb nurse, a fantastic teacher, a wonderful airline pilot - but, oh no, they misspelt something……

Alot instead of a lot

Two, to and too

There, They’re and their

Thankyou instead of thank you

There’s so many!

I mean GN!!! Oh, the irony 😀

Not spelling, but in the last 24 hours it has to be Trooping of THE Colour on MN 😀

It is still going on this morning……

I’m laughing at the unintended spelling mistakes in this thread

I don’t hate any, I do notice them, but think it’s rude to point out accepting that nobody is perfect.

I remember struggling with necessary.....I convinced myself it was cuffs not collar so got it wrong.

We should have an edit button on here.

Corrected! Oops 😂

I have sat in a cafe where the leaflets had ‘familys’ written instead of ‘families’ and correct them all.
I often see ‘separate’ spelt with an ‘e’ for the second ‘a’.
Necessary, is easy to remember if you think that a shirt has one Collar and 2 Sleeves.

Lightening instead of lightning ⚡️.

Greta

If children don't learn correct spelling at school and it is considered very rude to correct somebody's poor spelling how do people learn?

They learn coping strategies and avoid situations where their lack of literacy skills is found out. If they really want to learn as an adult they can get help but that is their choice.

Too many seem to equate poor spelling with lack of intelligence and lack of ability in other areas.

We certainly shouldn't be correcting other adults.

Chest of draws.

If children don't learn correct spelling at school and it is considered very rude to correct somebody's poor spelling how do people learn?

Practice and practise.

Some posters are prolific and write long posts.

I'm not sure how you could tell that from a few posts on GN. Our sons were diagnosed by an educational psychologist. Several tests over 2-3 hours.

I don’t judge people who make such mistakes - maybe they’re dyslexic, or went to rotten schools, or had hopeless teachers.

However I certainly do judge, very scathingly, those who like to say that spelling and grammar don’t matter any more, nobody except pernickety old pedants cares.
Oh yes they do!

I am not talking about dyslexia. I am talking about the same mistake each time. I won’t repeat what the mistake is because that would probably identify the poster - who is not dyslexic.

Well said Mamardoit.

You are all so perfect!!

Saw where someone was vindicated for their dodgy opinion.

It irritates me when I see spelling and grammar mistakes on shop signs, flyers etc. But I feel uncomfortable seeing criticism of GN posters for their spelling. We don’t know know their personal backgrounds and I’ve seen at least one poster state she is dyslexic. I can’t imagine it’s great for their self esteem to read some critical posts .

Germanshepherdsmum

But we see appalling mistakes here every day, made by people of our own age - and there are posters who always make the same mistakes.

Maybe they just struggle with spelling.

I tend to forgive mistakes because I'm the mother of dyslexic boys. Unless you have experienced someone really struggling with spelling despite trying unbelievably hard it is difficult to understand.

The just 'get him to write them out 20 times'! The thinly veiled blame that they/we weren't putting the effort in at home. We put hours of work into our boys, had more books than the children's section of the village library, and in the end paid for specialist teaching.

Bare with me

Again, not spelling, but using the word literally incorrectly can give rise to some howlers.

On a current Mumsnet thread touching on whether older people should get concessions on admission charges to museums etc, one poster said of an elderly couple that they definitely didn’t have disabilities because they literally waltzed from a black cab into the foyer of an art gallery. Some of the comments are very funny.

Typical boomers with their free ballroom dancing classes.