[fewtch]

... is definitely the word definitely. It's not "definately," it's definitely.

I actually hear "defin-AT-ly" in my mind when reading the misspelling. It annoys me so bad!

I think the second most common error is ignoring the fact that the word "you're" is a contraction of "you are."

Error: "Your going to the store."
Correct: "You're going to the store."

Can anyone think of others? These two seem to me to be the most widespread and common (and frankly, the most annoying).

 

[Aman]

Yeah, it's a peeve of mine to see people mispell common words like "definitely". I see a lot of people using the wrong "you(')r(e)" and the wrong "the(ir/re/y're)" as well. Very annoying

 

[fewtch]

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Originally Posted by Aman Yeah, it's a peeve of mine to see people mispell...

 

[cire]

alot

 

[grandenigma1]

im lazy and hate punctuating and correcting typos

 

[dvallere]

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Originally Posted by fewtch

Good catch, fewtch. All misspellings grate on me...though it seems worse when, for example, I'm reading a forum where brand names are thrown around a bit and seeing misspellings of manufacturer names...for example if someone here were to use the spelling "Byerdynamic" or "Sennheizer" (though I have never seen anyone on this board do this!)

Another situation where misspellings annoy me is when a discussion clearly has the correct spelling repeatedly - let's say a movie discussion about the movie "The Bourne Supremacy" - everyone's writing correctly about it, and then the 20th poster writes about "The Born Supremacy." What are these people thinking?

And the last one is rather infrequent: enforced snooty misspellings. Have you seen "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"? Joan of Arc is a character in it, and she is repeatedly referred to as Joan, Joan of Arc, or (in the doofus way Bill & Ted have) "Miss Of Arc." A poster on IMDB felt the need to ask a question about her and spelled it "Jeanne d'Arc." Yes, that's one way to spell her name, but it's so damn uppity to write it that way when the entire movie references her as Joan of Arc. Argh!

 

[Enverxis]

noice

perhaps it was deliberate, perhaps not - but still

 

[cire]

teh

 

[rhythmdevils]

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Originally Posted by dvallere Good catch, fewtch. All misspellings grate on me...though it seems worse when, for example, I'm reading a forum where brand names are thrown around a bit and seeing misspellings of manufacturer names...for example if someone here were to use the spelling "Byerdynamic" or "Sennheizer" (though I have never seen anyone on this board do this!) Another situation where misspellings annoy me is when a discussion clearly has the correct spelling repeatedly - let's say a movie discussion about the movie "The Bourne Supremacy" - everyone's writing correctly about it, and then the 20th poster writes about "The Born Supremacy." What are these people thinking? And the last one is rather infrequent: enforced snooty misspellings. Have you seen "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"? Joan of Arc is a character in it, and she is repeatedly referred to as Joan, Joan of Arc, or (in the doofus way Bill & Ted have) "Miss Of Arc." A poster on IMDB felt the need to ask a question about her and spelled it "Jeanne d'Arc." Yes, that's one way to spell her name, but it's so damn uppity to write it that way when the entire movie references her as Joan of Arc. Argh!

sum peopol just hav a hard tyme whith speling man, giv us a brake!

 

[rhythmdevils]

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Originally Posted by fewtch

thats awsome fewtch

 

[dvallere]

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhythmdevils sum peopol just hav a hard tyme whith speling man, giv us a brake!

 

[Borat]

"I couldn't care less"

 

[Kassem]

ridiculous.. or rediculous... i dont know

 

[meat01]

irregardless, its definately seperate

 

[USER NAME:]

Sometimes I forget how to spell a word and wind up using an entirely different word that I do know how to spell.

example:

I could never remember how to spell tommorrow so I say

"What are you doing Friday?"