A lot. All right?
but, but if i use the shift key, i won’t look all l33t and 5hi+!
errr… yeah. anyway, MY laziness is not at issue, here! this is about OTHER PEOPLE’S laziness (and ignorance)!
and here’s another: unfortunately. not unfortuneately. not unfortunetly. un-fortunate-ly. unfortunately.
I’ve said it before: “definitely”, not “definately” or “definitly” or “definatly” or “deffinatelly” or…
You see where I’m going with this. Don’t even get me started on the hair-pulling frequency of “milenium” or “milennium” a few months back.
Um…It’s misSpelled.
I’m embarrassed to admit that it took this former English major and spelling bee champ twenty years of her over-vocabulated life to figure out how to spell… well… embarrassed. Oh, how I hate that word. Every time I write it, I have to check to make sure I put in the proper number of r’s.
“Brakes” are the devices that slow a vehicle down, not “breaks”, for fuck’s sake. God, that one drives me potty.
Also, is this??? more of a question than this?
Thank you.
Yeah! And it should be “guide to”, not “guide two”! What with the mistakes spooje and bare mentioned, that makes four spelling errors in the title alone! In a spelling rant! What are the chances of that? abuse angel oughta be embarased!
I dont know what all the fuss’ i’s about mis’spelling. There are lot’s of issue’s more important for us’ to addres’s.
Like the painful underus’age of apostrophe’s.
In re the OP and subsequent contributions, may I just say:
Hear, hear!
[sub]NOT “Here, here!”, if you please[/sub]
In common usage, “effect” is a noun and “affect” is a verb. (Yes, yes, I know they both have alternate definitions; that’s why I said “common usage”).
I never used to see the confusion between “loose” and “lose” - when did that start? “Alot,” on the other hand, has been with us since the dawn of time.
And if I may broaden the scope of this complaint beyond spelling for a moment, I recently had to sit an Oxford graduate down and go over the difference between the comma and the semicolon. I also had to explain how to use parallel structures correctly.
ENugent, the semicolon is the most underappreciated punctuation mark in the entire English language. You know teachers (not all but many I’ve met) frown upon semicolon use? It has to be my favorite punctuation mark ever. They frown upon it, I think, because they don’t understand it. At best you’ll get the “[phrase];[conjunction],[phrase]” construction out of them. I’ve had teachers tell me to not use semicolons, like the fucking punctuation mark was a sure sign of the clap or something.
What kills me about the “their/they’re/there” continuum is that I always make that stupid mistake (well, not always) and I wonder: what the hell was I thinking? It isn’t even a legitimate typographical error where one accidentally hits one key instead of another. I think I need more self-abuse training. 
teh
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
ATHEIST
:: Scarlett delicately dabs at her brow ::
Thank you, I feel much better now.
N-E-S … Oh no, wait, let me try that again.
N-E-C-C … Drat! Don’t tell me… No, wait… how about?
N-E-S-C … That doesn’t look right either.
N-E-C-S-I-S … Oh Hell. I give up.
I know what you mean though. Drives me up a wall when people don’t seem to think that spell check is necessary.
Sylver"Yeah, I know silver is spelled wrong"One
First to the OP:
I hold in my hand the Websters (sic) dictionary (sic)/ Upper Class which contains about 1 out of 20 words I try to find. What the fuck good is a dictionary that does not have the words I need? I know “go” and “do”!
Second, really, why not end a sentence with a preposition? This is some left over random Queen’s English bullshit. Can anyone give me a reason other than because ‘that’s the rule’? Sure some times it 's clunky, but not always - so why the ‘rule’?
Finally, if I see one more person spelling it, “adrenalectomise”, I’m gonna scream.
And by the way, it’s ‘smegma’ NOT ‘schmegma’ - You know who you are!
See here.
I’m lazy.
I never learned phonics.
I’m lazy.
If it actually matters, I’ll do what ever selfrespecting biologist does. Clone an english major and don’t feed him until he proofs the paper.
AFAIK, this and the “split infinitive” (to boldly go, etc…) must be the result of some scholars who, trying set forth a formal English grammar(*), decided they would base it on the rules of Latin, disregarding that English is a germanic language.
(*) Another one! It’s “grammAr”, not “grammer”
Hmm… I thought the German language construction ended sentences with the verbs.
Some people are too iggorunt to spell corectaly.