s/o What misspelling bothers you most?

[kiddo76]

Ect. for Etc.

Electroconvulsive Therapy is a very different phrase than et cetera.

 

[Kestryl]

Pikes Place Market. Its Pike Place Market people.

I feel like pluralizing or making something possessive is a common thing where I grew up. People back home say Meijer’s, Kroger’s, Aldi’s- none of these end in an “s.”

Up until a week before it was released in theaters, I legitimately thought “Infinity War” was “Infinity Wars.”

 

[MIGrandma]

If I am shopping for a realtor (real-tor, not-ree-luh-tor) and their ads list a dinning room, I cross them off my list,

Seriously? Wow. Not everyone was blessed with perfect spelling ability.

Misspelled words don’t bother me. What does bother me is when someone tries to correct someone’s spelling. Rude. This is a message board, not an English class.

 

[EMom]

Seriously? Wow. Not everyone was blessed with perfect spelling ability.

Misspelled words don’t bother me. What does bother me is when someone tries to correct someone’s spelling. Rude. This is a message board, not an English class.

The ad for your house needs to be the best it can be for the house to sell for top dollar. If a realtor makes the mistake of using “dinning room” instead of “dining room” or uses blurry photos, then your ad is not up to par, and the ability to get the best price may suffer. I expect a professional to know how to spell when creating an advertisement. Failure to proof an ad is just lazy. I don’t need a lazy realtor. You can hire one though.

 

[Searc]

Seriously? Wow. Not everyone was blessed with perfect spelling ability.

Misspelled words don’t bother me. What does bother me is when someone tries to correct someone’s spelling. Rude. This is a message board, not an English class.

I would immediately correct any realtor who wrote "dinning" in our home listing. I agree with EMom that any realtor who uses the incorrect spelling in a listing is automatically scratched off our list.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

All spelling mistakes drive me crazy. Especially now that we have spellcheck on *everything* from text messaging to internet browsers.
That said, there are some words that I always, always, always check before posting them, because I have always struggled to remember how to spell them.

 

[debknight]

"baited breath" instead of "bated breath"

"walla" instead of "voila"

 

[AuntieMe3]

None. Most of the mistakes are by accident or by people who can't help it. My mother has a brain injury and misspells so many words, the spellcheck on her tablet is never even right. The number of people that feel the need to correct her is dumb. If you can still understand what the person is trying to say, who cares how they spelled it. It's not a spelling test and you're not being graded.

 

[L&Lfan]

A brain injury is one thing, ignorance is quite another. JMO

 

[paisleys]

My 8th grade English teacher SLAMMED me for this. I've never forgotten.

Teachers like that always seem mean at the time. However, they are the ones we look back upon gratefully as we actually learned something. I can hear my 5th grade English teacher in my head chastising me for my handwriting whenever I write something important.

 

[Tinkerbell58]

I noticed that some people write the word "an" when they mean "and".

 

[kaytieeldr]

Seriously? Wow. Not everyone was blessed with perfect spelling ability.

Dinning. Is. Not. A. Word.

 

[kdonnel]

Pikes Place Market. Its Pike Place Market people.

A wet market too!

 

[MillauFr]

A wet market too!

That market is very wet. Some of the seafood stands are nasty and I avoid them like the plague. One has big flies swarming. Pure Food Fish though is the best. Always get top notch seafood there.

https://www.freshseafood.com/

 

[kyton]

Haven’t read through the whole thread however “Devine” sets my teeth on edge!

 

[SirDuff]

Dinning. Is. Not. A. Word.

Yes. It. Is.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dinning
It may not be the word that was meant, but it is a word.

 

[tzolkin]

Not really misspellings, but punctuation. Mine is the use of an apostrophe for the plural form.

If it's a typo, I get it. However, I see repeated use of apostrophes for the plural form and it seems like some people think that's how to pluralize a noun.

Using apostrophes for pluralization is very annoying to me. There tend to be tips that come out every Christmas about the correct way to make names plural but I still think most people believe 'S is correct.

One thing that really bothers me is that my phone will auto-correct any day ending in an S to add an apostrophe. (Ex. "We meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays." will be corrected to "on Tuesday's and Thursday's") I have to manually correct it back every time. Are people really using days that need an apostrophe that much more often that it has become the default?

More a grammar thing but it really bothers me when people use whom when they mean who. Interestingly, it doesn't bother me when people use who when they mean whom.

I feel the same. I think it bothers me more because the "whom" people are usually attempting to be pretentious. A previous neighbor used to post political videos on his social media all the time and I don't think he ever once used the word "who". It was always "whom" regardless of the context. I think he just believes that "whom" is the more formal version of the word "who" and doesn't understand that there is a grammatically correct way to use each.

 

[North of Mouse]

-could (would, should) of instead of could (would, should) have

My 8th grade English teacher SLAMMED me for this. I've never forgotten.

Actually, I think, at least down south, it's more of a colloquial thing - and it's not 'could of' it's more like "could 've", so making a contraction of 'could have' - most people I know say it this way.
Right or wrong, I can't see it changing!!

 

[tzolkin]

Actually, I think, at least down south, it's more of a colloquial thing - and it's not 'could of' it's more like "could 've", so making a contraction of 'could have' - most people I know say it this way.

That's actually the issue. Could've is usually pronounced the same as "could of" so some people don't know that it's actually a contraction for "could have" and therefore don't know how to spell it correctly.

 

[slpeters]

I feel the same. I think it bothers me more because the "whom" people are usually attempting to be pretentious. A previous neighbor used to post political videos on his social media all the time and I don't think he ever once used the word "who". It was always "whom" regardless of the context. I think he just believes that "whom" is the more formal version of the word "who" and doesn't understand that there is a grammatically correct way to use each.

This is it exactly for me. You can be pretentious or you can be wrong. You don't get to be both.