Mistakes I make a lot:
Absence (heh, I just typed “Absense”)
License (sometimes I get confused – liscence, lisence, licence?)
One tiny inconsequential word that makes me get all het up when I see it misspelled: whoa.
IT IS W-H-O-A, not W-O-A-H. The only time W-O-A-H is acceptable is when it is printed in an English translation of the Tintin comics and it’s used to represent Snowy barking.
I don’t know whether these count as spelling errors or pluralization errors, but so many people don’t seem to understand how possessive plurals work. They’ll write something like “The Robinson’s dog dug up my flower garden.” “The Robinson”? Who’s “the Robinson”? Or, “I’m living at my parent’s house.” Why don’t you just tell me which parent, if it’s the house of only one of them?
And just today on the Dope I saw somebody write something like “a criteria.” I hate it when a people says something like that. That’s a phenomena that really bothers me. It’s a mistakes.
I agree with you on these. About #3, you might want to avoid Cake Wrecks around June-ish. You’d wind up looking like you have Parkinson’s.
It’s still wrong.
Congradulations on your gratuation
So much?? Care about these things so much that they (I) post meaningless threads on a messageboard about them? Yeah, right. I don’t see why people who claim to not care about these things decide to pop in and tell me about it.
“Seperate” isn’t a word.
I already pointed that out, but thanks. 
(thanks for reading the OP in it’s entirety though)
And this thread was not triggered by the thread you are referring to; I actually never even saw that thread.
One I’d started to see recently is “payed” for “paid”. Drives me crazy.
Because it’s as fun to be as annoying to your type as it is for you to annoy us with nitpicking over spelling in informal communication.
Huh. So you enjoy being an nuisance. You are a big, expansive man. See, “my type” relegates our annoyances to threads in which only those who have an interest in the subject matter need to bother to read it. “Your type” spreads your annoyances all over the place, inserting yourselves into areas where no one wants to hear you.
*Alchohol *- I find myself mistyping and correcting that one every single time!
Along with* lead/led*, I often see *mislead *used when the correct word shoulda been misled.
Me too! (And it’s “alcohol”)
If your type stuck to threads like this then it wouldn’t be a problem. But the nitpicking is everywhere. Get over it. You’re not perfect either. Good spelling is no virtue.
Go away man.
To be fair, I don’t really see anyone being especially nitpicky here, just people making observations and compiling a list. Nor do I see anyone claiming to be perfect or virtuous. In fact I’m sure several posters have admitted to mistakes themselves.
Yeah, most of this thread is a bit of self-deprecation. In fact, I just misspelled that word as deprication… ugh. And then I just misspelled misspelled as mispelled the first time I typed it.
Dumbbass.
Dumbass, surely? Unless you are referring to the freshwater fish.
That’s certainly accepted by descriptivist dictionaries, the ones we were lightheartedly calling “fictionaries.” But there’s no especially good reason to use it, as the conflation of the two words is entirely error, they do not have the same origins.
Ahsx nraguthiser zzxt malfractus sharmkithner!