The point is moot!

[Macca1111]

Aahhh not typos but things said in real life. You would have a field day here. Here are a few,

You don't have a brother, but a brotha.
You don't live on the street, but the skreet.
It isn't where do you live, it's where you stay?
It's not I told her, it's I telled her.

Uggh it's horrible! I could go on and on and on. My DH's best friend is a police officer and he got a call one night and was told "There is a steak in the skreet." He says "WHAT?" "A steak in the skreet."

It was a SNAKE in the STREET!

Where the hell do you live?

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Oh, there are sooo many of these! My Mom and I call each other almost every day with something we've heard that made our skin crawl.

Here are the ones that have come up recently that make me go "huh"?

Calvary & Cavalry: Calvary was the supposed site of the crucifiction, hence "Calvary Chapel.".... You call in the Cavalry, soldiers on horses, for a miiltary operation.

Regimen, Regiment, Regime: Regimen: a routine, like your exercise regimen. Regiment: Military unit composed of battalions. Regime: a government in power or a period of rule. Often used in the negative. (ie..Iraq is no longer under Saddam's regime)

 

[Diva of Dragons]

"probly" is probably one of the more annoying words out there.

And it's even worse when it's pronounced and written as "prolly"!

Some more common ones...

death & deaf: One means no longer alive. The other, that you can't hear.

drowned, instead of drown: I "thought I would drowned." No.

Acrossed...it's across, no "t" sound at the end.

OK, I'll let this go for now. LOL!!!

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

a lot=
two words!

You should hear my DM pronounce oxygen. My sister and I crack up when she says it.

 

[Robinrs]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is annoyed by this...

I have a degree in English and Speech.... sometimes I want to just POP my eyes out and become deaf....

Semantics have become a thing of the past, the King's English is no longer a priority... it makes me sick.

Misspellings bother me sometimes on message boards but I have to believe they are mostly typos. What I DON'T believe are the ones that are in the thread TITLE... and stay that way. I know most people don't care but I always wonder why they aren't corrected... , I know it's ME.

Malapropisms drive me insane, but living in Georgia and Brooklyn, the Malaprop Capitals of the World... I've learned to LIVE with them!!

 

[charmin1976]

Oh, God! Help me!

Crucifixion = crucifiction ??

 

[SDFgirl]

My DH makes fun of me when I accidentally say "anticlimatic" instead of "anticlimactic." I can't help it...and he always says, "What, are you against weather or something?"

Ha ha, so funny, that husband of mine...

 

[Magic Mom]

I've heard people call their dogs Rockweilers.

borned instead of born

 

[Cindy B]

The one that bugs me is:

The use of double contractions. One poster the other day had in thier title
I could've have new trip pictures (or something like that )

So really they meant I could have have new trip pictures.


ressie for reservation really bothers me as well.

 

[wheeler1]

I'll add irregardless to the mix. Its very common for folks to use this in my area, makes me nuts.

 

[marlynnp]

passed vs. past (I see that one wrong here all the time!)

And my absolute favorite comes from a poster on another board ~ one of those people who thinks they know everything ...

COW TAIL

She wasn't going to go cow tail to the new boss, no way!

Yes, I did enjoy telling her the word is

KOWTOW

 

[Cindy B]

Please edit your post titles..

Someone is remoldeling instead of remodeling.

 

[java]

I immediately thought of George Costanza and the Bubble boy-
" Oh no it's MOOPS not Moors"

 

[Liberty Belle]

I've not seen a lot of these used. I do remember once in college, we had a "guest instructor" (our regular instructor was ill) and when I walked in the room, I saw he'd written a sentence on the board (this was English class, of all things) and part of it said, "...taken for granite." He was not joking, either.

Let's see, the ones I hear /see most here:

ploblem instead of problem
suppose to instead of supposed to
shtreet instead of street
srimp instead of shrimp

I suppose most of those could be attributed to an articulation problem.

I find myself saying "mighnt" instead of "might," and sometimes I'll say "nightgownd" instead of "nightgown." I never write them that way, though, and I try to stop myself from saying them.

Two typos (I'm assuming they're typos) that bug me the most are "quite" for "quiet" and "opps" for "oops."

 

[Todd&Copper]

My pet peeve is "should of" instead of "should have." It's "I should have known how to pronounce realtor." It's not "I should of known how to pronounce realtor."

Sweet Chicken, that is one that ALWAYS gets my goat! Particularly when the teenager (or perhaps young adult) who has written it that way becomes terribly offended at being corrected.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

What is sweet chicken?

I'll add irregardless, too. And I have a couple of coworkers who always say supposably instead of supposedly. They even write it like that. I always have to refrain from correcting them (I know, it's me - lol)

At work, too, our managers always say I, even when they should say me. It used to drive me crazy.

Here on the boards - doesn't bother me. It used to, but now I pay more attention to the content of the message, not how it's spelled.

 

[NMAmy]

There were a couple of these that I heard all the time when I lived in New Mexico and it drove me crazy.

One was, "Sign your John Henry right there." Really? John Henry was a steel drivin' man and not known for his penmanship. I believe you are thinking of John Hancock--the guy with the fancy signature on the Declaration of Independence.

The other was saying "whenever" instead of "when." My own dd does this and it makes me bananas--I'm constantly correcting her but all her friends say it. For example, "Whenever I went to the grocery store, I bought some eggs."

 

[Maleficent13]

One was, "Sign your John Henry right there." Really? John Henry was a steel drivin' man and not known for his penmanship.

You made me laugh out loud, and now everyone in the room thinks I'm nutso. So thanks for that.

 

[pozey]

You're still missing it. We're talking about particular words that people mispronounce using a completely different word because they're unaware that they're saying the wrong word. People who speak like cretins are definitely funny though. My favorite thing to hear is "I seen this guy coming out the door." Still, it's not what I'm talking about. People say "The point is mute" because they don't know that there is such a word as "moot" even though mute obviously doesn't fit at all.

Alzheimer's disease - Alltimers disease
Upmost - Utmost
Duct Tape - Duck Tape
Wary - Weary
Espresso - Expresso
Realtor - Relator
Take for granted - Take for granite
Spit and Image - Spitting image (I do this one all the time)
Moot point - Mute point
Etcetera - Excetra

You get the point. (I hope)

I assume you are putting the "correct" words on the left?

If so, then with UTMOST respect, I have to correct your 2nd one.

Both upmost and utmost are words. Upmost means the uppermost or top of something.

UTMOST means greatest. So, when someone says "I have the utmost respect for something." That is a compliment. Saying they have great respect.

Edit to add: Also.....both "Spit and Image" and "Spitting Image" are correct. The term "Spitting Image" dates back to the early 1900's, while "Spit and Image" dates back even further.

 

[NMAmy]

You made me laugh out loud, and now everyone in the room thinks I'm nutso. So thanks for that.

Any time, pal. That drove me crazy for 15 years.