What spelling mistake do you hate/notice the most?

Hang on a sec' no-one is criticising the dylexic. We are annoye by people whose profession is writing, sign-righters, printers, publishers, journalists and others who have not learned to spell correctly.

I assume you would criticise a bank-teller , or book-keeper who could neither add, subtract, nor work out percentages correctly?

Working as a PA throughout my career I would cringe when bosses couldn’t spell liaise and would spell it liase on wipe boards etc. I would discretely stick the extra i in when nobody else was looking. Also when accommodation is misspelt with only one m.

I hate ‘ invite’ instead of invitation

𝐈 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲. 𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞!

𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞 👍

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Working as a PA throughout my career I would cringe when bosses couldn’t spell liaise and would spell it liase on wipe boards etc. I would discretely stick the extra i in when nobody else was looking. Also when accommodation is misspelt with only one m.

You mean ‘discreetly’ I think!

Not actually a spelling mistake per se but a Proverb mistake: The Proof of the Pudding IS IN THE EATING!!! is always being misquoted as 'Proof is IN The Pudding' grrr.... (is even on a poster outside a local restaurant)

I was at my granddaughter’s school recently for an assembly. In the hall on the wall were shown various qualities for the children to aspire to including ‘persistance’! If teachers can’t spell what hope is there…

Ménage instead of manège

Yes, for me it's "should of", not "should have" and also "draws" instead of "drawers"-"Loose" for "lose" i am sure there is lots more- it seems to be the younger ones i'm afraid, as they dont seem to learn correct grammar nor to speak properly these days.

'Should of' makes me cringe but I think 'your and 'you're' come a close second. Some of the errors I think are probably a result of predictive text and then being too busy (lazy) to check before pressing the send button.

For me it’s:-

Seperate, definate and bit of water (spot of water)

There for their. Or the other way round!

For sale CHESTER DRAWS

Using yous as plural. It drives me mad.

‘Registry’ office, instead of ‘register’ office.

Have seen this a time or two on GN threads recently.

I've always been a complete nerd about accuracy in spelling. However, I sympathise with those who struggle to get to grips with a language that has 10 ways to pronounce the letters "ough":
Thought it would be rough to plough through the slough though it was falling into the lough that left me thoroughly coughing and hiccoughing.

Would of, should of, could of.

Discusting winds me right up.
Also people that use a women.

Dislike the American spellings such as ‘color’ for ‘colour’, ‘cozy’ for ‘cosy’ etc that insidiously creep in. I have no objection whatsoever to Americans using our language as they see fit in their own country but why oh why do we have to have them here?! I agree that spelling has declined everywhere but it is annoying to see it in advertisements etc. Don’t get me started on punctuation or grammar….!

Two pet hates for me, defiantly instead of definitely and as we are caravan lovers, birth instead of berth.

Funnily enough, we used to spell ‘colour’ in what is now the American way. I have seen it in so many Conveyances from the nineteenth century.

I hate ‘cozy’ too. I am a grumpy old woman.

Overuse of words such as unbelievable and incredible especially when commentating on sporting events.

Cabbie 21 mentioned where/were. This possibly comes from something that really irritates me - people substituting the
‘ wh ‘ sound with ‘ w ‘. When teaching , I used to get the children to practise making a ‘ wh ‘ sound, reminding them that there would be a blowing sound at the beginning if they’d got it right. Just don’t like the where/were, which/wich etc. l won’t start on the shuge for huge!

Formally instead of formerly as I saw in Saturday's paper when describing an ex-MP. Made me cringe!

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].