Pretty pointless thread but oh well ;).Does this particular spelling error bother anyone else?
Any other spelling errors that bother you?
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Pretty pointless thread but oh well ;).Does this particular spelling error bother anyone else?
Any other spelling errors that bother you?
accept/except they are not interchangeable :rolleyes:
There are many spelling errors that seem more common than the correct spelling! I will use conGRADulations for someone's GRADuation, but congratulations for all else.
Misused apostrophes bother me, but as I am not a perfect typist, I cannot be too critical!
Karen I thought I was the only one! They drive me right up the wall. :p I have to laugh at Jay Leno when he does his *Headlines* segment. These are people who are producing newspapers and they can't spell or don't seem to know what they are saying in their ads. Though hilarious, I can't understand how this stuff actually gets put into print. Have these people never attended one day of school? :eek: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
Another pet peeve, aside from CongraDulations, is nuclear versus nucular. :rolleyes: Even our President messes up on the pronounciation of that one.
That drives me completely bonkers - because people will hear him, and think that IS how it is pronounced! Eeeek!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pam
My beloved friend Phil was a proofreader - he worked for 40-something years at the Christian Science Monitor, and when he retired, he came to work a couple days a week at the local weekly where I worked. As it was his stock and trade, he proofread everything, whatever type was in front of him, without even trying.
One evening he and his wife went out to dinner, and the restaurant had a new menu. Phil, being Phil, noticed errors (one misplaced apostrophe, and a misspelling) and quietly told the waiter. Well, the manager came over, and instead of thanking him, was furious! They had just had thousands of menus printed up, and now they'd all have to be redone - like it was Phil's fault! He quietly told his wife he'd never point out a typo to a restaurateur again!
Rest in peace, Phil! Miss you!
Drives me nuts! I've been a "speller" for as long as I can remember. I've learned to remember that not everyone can spell, and some people never will. Most of my closest friends can't spell worth a darn, I'm sure most of them would say "congradulations" as well. What can ya do?
IRREGARDLESS. I cannot stand when people use it. It's not a word. REGARDLESS is a word, IRREGARDLESS is not.
It truly saddens me to see some of the spelling errors we see on this board. All in all, most people spell pretty well but it disturbs me that some people can't spell any better than they do. It seems that someone starts spelling a particular word wrong and it catches on. Like I said in another thread, put a dictionary by the computer or use spell check if available :(
My latest pet peeve is the misuse of lose and loose. When did people start loosing weight?? :confused:
Ditto! i saw that one earlier and just shook my head.Quote:
My latest pet peeve is the misuse of lose and loose. When did people start loosing weight??
Google is great for looking up proper spelling ;).
Spelling mistakes annoy me a bit, but I suppose a lot of us make typos now and again ;) The mix up of there, their and they're is something I usually notice though
I am not a perfect speller but I hate it when people misuse the words there and thier and it really bothers me when people use "i" instead of a capital "I". I have seen it on commercials and it's so annoying, IMO.
Do you mean their? heheQuote:
Originally Posted by Maltese_Love
One of my spelling peeves is:
Exited. Exited is not when you are happy about something - EXCITED is the correct word/spelling.
I see it used a lot on here.
The only thing I really can't stand is when people don't use punctuation and their sentences just run on and on and.....I get out of breath just reading them!
German shepard.its Germen shepHERD people lmao..OMG i cant tell you how annoying that is to me :rolleyes:
Oh I KNOW!! I hate run-on sentences, they are so difficult to understand. There is one member on here whose posts I can't even read because I become so frustrated trying to figure out what they say. Atleast I can still understand a paragraph with spelling mistakes, but I just don't have the brain-power to deal with run-ons.Quote:
Originally Posted by JenBKR
I always thought of this forum as a place to talk about our pets, not to complain about others' spelling mistakes. The spelling is no worse here than on any other forum. :)
Yes, I remember reading that post, so, I now have my Webster's Dictionary near the computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
My pet peeve, since registering on a forum, is the use of acronymns!!!
I don't use them, I won't !!!! LOL, BYB, ROTFL, IMO, and a few more that I gave up trying to figure out---- :eek: by now, my 4th grade teacher is certainly rolling over in her grave!!! :eek:
I am a spell checker, because of my 4th grade teacher!!!!! She was very, very strict!!!!!!! But, ---she taught me so much!!!!!! and , I was so lucky as an adult, to tell her just how wonderful a teacher she was!
I have to laugh out loud :D when some one corrects my spelling on this forum. So, please, if or when you spot incorrect spelling or punctuation within my replies, give me a kick in the pants!!!!!!!! :D
I have college credits in English!!!!!! So, I deserve it!!!!!!!
This forum, Town Hall, is to discuss the site, not pets - the rest of the whole BBS people are free to talk about pets! This is fine as a topic, and helps people realize that spelling DOES matter, especially in helping people understand. Not everyone here speaks English as her or his first language, and misspellings make it even more difficult for them, also.Quote:
Originally Posted by G535
It is a major pet peeve of mine when someone uses the wrong meaning of a word, kind of hard for me to explain. Like using 'hole' instead of 'whole', or 'where' instead of 'were'. Also run-on sentences. Most of the time if I see a post with run-on sentences, then I don't bother reading it at all. I understand some typos that happen because of fast typing, but when it's hard for you to understand what a person is saying, and when you have to go back and read the sentence again to actually be able to comprehend what they were typing, well it gets annoying. I am by no means a perfect speller, but I usually have dictionary.com open at the same time to check some more difficult words.
I thought Congra[d]ulations is how Congra[t]ulations spellt in the US :D
I appologise if I make typing errors. English is not my first language, but I do try :)
We all make typing errors William. The human eye often misses errors/typos. It just bothers me that some people spell words incorrectly over and over and never seem to try to correct themselves. Typos are always easy to get around. I just can't imagine how some people have gotten through school with the way their spelling looks in some of these posts. :confused:
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Originally Posted by wolfsoul
haha I think I know who you mean - I don't even bother reading that person's posts anymore because it gives me a headache ;)
Oh yes run on sentences are another pet peeve of mine, they make things very hard to read ;).
ETA: Another spelling error that bugs me is tomarrow... for such a simple word it is often spelt wrong.
There are many many things - but Rhi, you will know this one.
Is it only in Australia they say - Satday?? ............... it is Saturday
The other one here is - somefink or somming - the word is something
I was just talking about this particular word with my nephew last week, I am surprised by how many people spell "definitely" incorrectly(and I am not talking about just on this site).
Also someone here on Pet Talk had posted this free online spell check site a while ago, and I have added it to my favorites. :)
Just a real quick story, when I first started this job it involved a writing a summary of the file for the next person to use in their job. I always thought of myself as a good speller. Imagine my embarrassment when after a week or two one of my co-workers came over and very politely offered me a dictionary to use. :o Moral of the story even if you think you know, it never hurts to check. ;)
Ginger's Mom - I will always thank my Dad for helping me learn to spell that word
He taught it to me as - def-i-nite-ly
(pronounced - deaf-i-night-lee)
Made sure I never forgot that there was an I in there :D
Thanks for the spellcheck Joyce. I bookmarked it too for future use. My spelling has degraded so much over the years that I have to check and re-check all the time. It never does hurt to check, especially when the old memory starts to go when we get older ;) I've come to the conclusion that some people spell incorrectly just to get attention or to be different. Surely, constant spelling errors that are so blatant, can't be real. Right?? ;)
My math teacher in 9th grade did that ALL the time! I hated her even more for it. Math is so blah and she made me hate it even more. I too HATE the misuse/overuse of appostraphies. I don't get why people at least can't get in their minds that appostraphies are for POSSESION and CONTRACTIONS!! At least get that!Quote:
Originally Posted by moosmom
I've been called grammar police for correcting my parents when I was young but I'm a terrible speller. I often mispell words in people's signatures and only save them as jpgs. :o
Another that drives me crazy is "spelt"
edit: I just had to look it up. It is a type of wheat but it is also accepted as the past tense of "spell" in England
Spelt is spelt correctly according to spellcheck and Google ;). Michelle Saturday definitely bugs me aswell.
I know what you mean. But, you know, it's in the dictionary now. :) So, I don't say anything about it anymore. It's just one of those words that's been used for so long, it's made it into the dictionary. My dad says it and always has, it's always bugged me.Quote:
Originally Posted by moosmom
It also drives me insane when people say "I seen this..." or "I seen him at the store today." Man. But, half of my friends from South Carolina speak that way. ;)
I notice spelling all of the time. It's one thing if English isn't your first language, but, it speaks volumes for the country we live in when people are graduating who can't even spell simple words correctly. Or at least strive to learn the correct way. I pride myself in being aware of what I type. I make typos all the time, but, I will even correct my posts weeks later if I notice something. ;) And, I've asked my niece many times to help me with certain grammatical conundrums (one of my all time favorite words!). She teaches language arts, and, she's always willing to help me or at least find the answer, because she doesn't know the answer all the time, either. ;)
Someone mentioned something about acronyms, I rarely use them, either. LOL is something I've never used. Don't know why I've never used it, it doesn't usually annoy me too much. ;)
Don't get me started! :rolleyes:
its it's and its' (the last is I believe...when all the its get together and buy something....) :rolleyes: mens room, womens room?????? and your and you're ...I guess that makes me one of the ' nuts?
In Germany we get it the other way round- it would be correct to write
"Sams cars" without an ' as the genitiv s in German is just added to the word. But many half-wits who know a little English just write Sam's now- which sounds ok as long as it's an English name but Sieglinde's flower shop in German sounds rather funny to me.
Well, it IS in the dictionary. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by moosmom
The only thing that REALLY bothers me is:
it's and its
their, there, and they're
and you're and your
Now I know I get its and it's mixed up sometimes, but I NEVER get your and you're mixed up, and they are soo easy to get straight. If you undo the contraction and will be saying "you are..." then it is "you're". If you are talking about posession, it is just "your". Ta dah! :)
It's and its STILL throws me off sometimes... it's almost backwards from "normal" rules. Normally you use 's for posession, but not for it's! It's backwards!
"Look at its leg!"
"It's going to close."
Or watch me get those mixed up... that's really the only thing that still continues to confuse me!!
Jessika....the rule for it's/its......same as you're.....it's is short for "it is" and inanimate objects cannot own things so...its....there is NO its'....
These bug me for some reason.
advice ~ advise
principle ~ principal
since ~ sense
I found an interesting website today. I thought it's very appropriate for this thread:
"Common Errors in English Usage" by Paul Brian
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
I have bookmarked that .................. thanks!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by vinjashira
(or is it thank's or thanks' ....................... :D )
You know, I've been having troubles with your and you're latley. I clearly know the difference, but I find myself typing you're all the time when I mean you're and just barely catching my mistake.
That site is good! Today on the weather channel the announcer misused a saying, I can't remember what now but I laughed out loud and my dad was like, "What are you laughing at??!"