Wallah! for Voila!
Wait, what? “Just desserts” is correct, or am I being whooshed?
And the one that I see most often is “loose” instead of “lose.”
Joe
On a job application submitted to the store at which I work, someone, in the “employment history” section, stated that they had worked for six months at “Jacking the Box.”
Joe
Oh. My…Oh, my.
I saw somebody use “as longest” for “as long as.” Took me a minute to figure out what she meant. Also “I feel someone justified.” (Okay, those aren’t spelling errors.)
I can totally see “peak” for “pique” taking over. Because it sort of makes sense. Or seems to, anyway. Like using “free reign” if you don’t know it comes from horses, not kings.
Somebody help me please.
ETA: Free rain?
I think “rein”, although I always thought it was “reign”.
While risking giving away my urban upbringing…a rein is what?
The strap attached to the bit in the horse’s mouth. The rider holds onto it, and uses it to tell the horse which direction to go in.
That’s not a misspelling, that’s an anatomical impossibility. One cannot jack the box; one can only jill the box.
The “free reign” reminds me of another common horse-related misquotation (not a misspelling, though):
“Chomping at the bit” instead of the correct “champing at the bit”.
And, to stay on topic:
I often see Buddha misspelled as “Buddah” and Gandhi misspelled as “Ghandi”.
“Just desserts” is correct.
I’ve seen “For all intensive purposes” a few times lately, instead of “For all intents and purposes.”
I’m a big fan of alchohol. I know it’s wrong, but for some reason it’s what I type.
Gandhi is a transliteration from another language. I don’t know that there is a “correct” weah* of spelling it.
*George Weah is a famous Liberian footballer, but I had to be sure to contribute something here.
Apparently not. This thread proved otherwise, which was news to me, as I’ve always thought it was “just desserts,” too.
To quote matt_mcl from the thread:
“In this case, ‘deserts’ (still pronounced the same as ‘desserts’) is an archaic noun meaning ‘things that are deserved,’ surviving only in this expression.”
Alot.
Thanks alot.
Alot is not correct.
A lot.
Two words.
Wow, ignorance totally fought. I was thoroughly with the “sweet bit coming to you at the end of the meal/revenge is sweet/you’ll get what’s coming to you, bucko” crowd.
Shocking revelations courtesy of The 'Dope:
-“Just deserts”
-Pineapples don’t grow on trees.
From here on out I promise to use the correct phrase and know in my little heart that I’m right, while also internally weeping and gnashing teeth knowing that everyone around me thinks I’m misusing the phrase.
Being a horsey sort of kid myself, I knew “free rein,” although “free reign” made perfect sense to me–a king can, after all, do pretty much whatever he damn well pleases–and so I always had doubts writing it.
My husband uses “alot” a lot. I briefly considered divorcing him over it, but when he told me I’d have to keep the cat I decided it was too much trouble.
Curse you Ruby and your speedy typing fingers! And curse you too, original Scarface and your post-distracting, awesomely mustachio’ed gangsters!
I used to look after the website for a well known weight-loss company.
The wide spread use of “loose” for “lose” and “looser” for “loser” on the forums used to annoy me on a daily basis.
Any word containing an apostrophe.