There is if you pronounce it correctly. It amazes me that people insist on “library” but can’t pronounce “February.”
My Fella does this. He absolutely knows the difference between the words and I’ve been pointing this typo out for about ten years.
In his brain, it’s the same word when he’s typing reports or something.
There’s a store near me named “Two Cousin’s Beauty Supplies.”
Neither is threadshitting.
A-men.
I think it was called the A-team. Or are you thinking of X-men?
Just thought of another one that really bugs me: ‘ect.’
Is this short for ‘ec tetera’?
I’ve been wondering lately if maybe some of this is deliberately tongue(tounge! Another one!)-in-cheek, as in the common use of ‘cow-orker’ on this board. One I’m guilty of multiple times.
Aftre al, Kan thier bee thet mini loosers’ uot they’re thit rilly cant spel ‘loser’?
Oops. maybe. The more common word is calendar, a device for telling you what day it is.
The less common word is calender – you think you got it right maybe because the spell checker let you get away with it. But it’s a different word altogether.
ETA: Yes, I just discovered that myself. I never new that calender was a real word before.
Heh, the page name on that is misspelled ‘calander’.
Oh, and this thread cannot be complete without an alot.
Not to be confused with colander
See, library has the rary. So I think Feb should be Feburary too.
Hey, someone reads my posts! Yay. (I usually feel like one of those invisible, uninteresting posters, so just seeing a reply is like a scritch on the head!)
I knew what that link was before even hovering over it. I hate that damn thing, and for a year or so, the dance mix of it made life as a club kid hell. It also makes every holiday hell, as there’s a dancing “hampster” toy for every occasion. “Hey, honey, a memorial wreath for grandma’s grave… and watch this!” <pushes button at the base of the “hampster” imbedded in the wreath> “Di da di do do do…”
I also wouldn’t be surprised if the ubiquity of that early meme would turn out to be the reason that “hampster” became so common.
I read 2 horse boards on a regular basis and constantly see *gates *instead of gaits (referring to a horse’s movements) and helmut for helmet.
Saw someone refer to brakes as breaks on Facebook yesterday. This seems like an error that has only cropped up in the last 5 years or so.
There are some double-letter words that I have trouble with, such as millennium or embarrass (for some reason, takes some thinking to remember how many of what letter the word needs).
Uh, maybe not. (It’s “calendar”.)
I would spend more time at bicycle and automotive boards if it were less common to stop these vehicles using the breaks. It is not a habit of which you can easily brake people.
“Queen Elizabeth II yesterday cut the ribbon officially opening the United Kingdom’s biggest particle accelerator east of the moon.”
Thank Og every New York Times reader now knows the government didn’t dig up Queen Elizabeth I and reanimate her after more than 400 years for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“G’mornin’, Queen Elizabeth II,” Prince Philip, the Duke of Windsor of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, said brightly.
“G’morning, Prince Philip, the Duke of Windsor of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg,” Queen Elizabeth II replied as she removed her tiara, breathed on a diamond and polished it on her bodice. “What’s for breakies?”