No, actually it’s “dangit,” and you should know that, yung’un.! And you’re either “fer” or “agin.” Period.
With any hope we can get the internets and the google to get plow straight.
This far along, I’m the first to mention “teh”?
Congradulations on starting this thread!! The misspellings you see on the internet are sometimes quiet rediculous.
My favourite homonym error is still the one in my local paper a few years back - “Police say they are unlikely to recover the stolen goods unless the thieves attempt to porn them”.
Anyone who plays World of Warcraft or Everquest will know how irritating it is to see people type “rouge” when they mean “rogue.”
Thou. 
I think people who write ‘athiest’ aren’t.
… and visa versa …
My personal bêtes noires of per say, lose/loose and rogue/rouge have been covered here, but I also see a lot of:
capital/capitol
principal/principle
but/butt
was’nt, does’nt, could’nt etc etc
great/grate
grateful/greatful
brake/break
nose/noes
Meh. Given that 90% of message board traffic is first-draft writing, batted out at speed, the random word or two wrong doesn’t really bother me much.
I assume you mean in place of “segue?” I know people who use “segway” like that when speaking.
Me either.
I sort of like typos. I think they’re usually pretty funny and can make some of the biggest tight asses seem a little more human.
I had a professor that told us to email him any questions that we had. He’d always answer really quickly and his email always had at least one typo. It was sort of cute.
prolly
anyhoo
both often appear to be attempts to be “folksy” but they just come across as childish
Being a Warcraft player, I am constantly bemused by the shorthand used by some of my fellow players:
–“N e body” (anybody). Counting the spaces, the word is actually longer when you write it that way.
–“KK” (okay). I can understand using “k” as an abbreviation, especially if you’re in a battle or other situation where you can’t be troubled to type out the whole word “okay.” But why “kk”? How about just going that extra mile and substituting an “o” for that first “k”?
– “Plz” (please). I know that it’s probably getting tiresome typing out the same tell over and over to everyone who passes, but you might get better results if you said, “I hate to trouble you, but could I borrow a few silver?” rather than, “Give me 3 silver plz.”
I learned ‘prolly’ from Pogo. If you can’t trust him, who can you trust?
How do you mean? Is “segway” a proper word?
3 names that seem to be commonly misspelled:
Ghandi instead of Gandhi
Buddah instead of Buddha
Cal Ripkin instead of Cal Ripken (and Jr. is rarely used either, but that’s not really an error).
This may be a common misspelling because there used to be a record label in the late '60s - early '70s spelling it with ‘h’ on the end. It went out of business, but resurfaced briefly in 1999-2000 as a specialty reissue label, with its name spelled properly this time.
Do people realize there actually is a word “Faze”, and that “Phase” is not the same thing?
My family used to say ‘anyhoo’. To me, that kind of thing is about playing with language and can be fun. It’s not the same as not knowing what ‘peek’, ‘peak’, and ‘pique’ are.
I am the last person that should be complaining about spelling, since my own spelling gene is recessive.
But there is one error that I see over and over that just grates on my nerves.
Your car has brakes, it does not have breaks. If the brakes on your car break, then they are broken.
Speaking from first-hand experience, most of these errors predate the internet.
Punctuation-free, caps only or lower-case only writing does seem to be a feature of the age, however, on e-mail as well as on internet message-boards.
Well I’ve seen threads about e.g. withdrawal from Iraq where several posters use “withdrawl” consistently in otherwise correctly spelled posts. As I say, it made we wonder if it was a valid alternative spelling. Or maybe it’s just contagious.