Settle down, Diane.
“teh” used to bother me, but now I just smirk.
I think what did it was somebody paraphrased Dubya waxing eloquent about “teh intranets” and the hate just went away.
The one I see high school kids make over and over that steams me is mabye for maybe. For fuck’s sake, you learned the words may and be in first grade, shouldn’t mabye look wrong to you by high school??!
“Rediculous” makes me slappy. Ditto “bias”, as in “Maybe I’m just bias?”.
accept/except
next store neighbor - OK, maybe it was said by someone who lives in a mall.
And most of what has already been posted. It’s gotten to the point that I doubt myself when I write. Worst of all is when I use the wrong word even when I know the correct one - sometimes I can’t control my fingers.
And for the record, sometimes I say *viola *for *voila *just to be a wiseacre. I do know the difference.
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Some time ago I started a thread where you had to misspell every word in your post – or try to.
Why doesn’t somebody start one where you have to use as many wrong words and malapropisms as possible and still “make sense.”
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Who the fuck is Diane?
Congradulations. Is it a greetings card thing?
Huh. Before this moment, I have never seen “maybe” misspelled.
I once saw a bumper sticker which said “I break for small animals.” Never did figure out if it was a deliberate joke or not.
I’d post that picture every time if we were allowed inline photos.
Hmm, let’s see. There’s of coarse, wreck havic, wreckless/reckless, perscription, on sell, chalk full, speach…
I really miss the letter D, which seems to be vanishing from the ends of words. I see a lot of misspellings like, “I’m suppose to buy slice ham like I use to.”
Also, where on the body is the mid-drift?
“Persay” drives me up the wall. It’s PER SE people. And you can’t use it as a synonym for “exactly.” Like when you’re talking about your fuck buddy and you say, “He’s not my boyfriend per se.” That’s wrong and you should be slapped with a wet trout.
There are certain words I have trouble with like physical and physician.
Grammar is not my strong point. Apostrophe’s, commas, etc.
You, your, you are, you’re…? :smack:
Wait - did you do that one on purpose?
Though I have seen most of the ones already mentioned, I have an unreasonable hatred for two–
“bumber sticker”
and
“bikini top” (when referencing a bimini top–an open-front top for the cockpit of a boat or a CJ-series Jeep)
Somewhere in time, someone probably referenced seeing a Jeep with a “bikini top and a lot of bumber stickers.”
I hope that hypothetical person got a really nasty paper cut.
I think I’ve been on record about this one here before, but the left-hand version actually would mean the opposite of what is typically intended.
I’m curious why you felt the need to include the usage lesson. With the exception of the occasional hasty typo, I think we’re all up to speed on the difference between its and it’s.
And one more time, the one that really makes me scream and throw things.
The past tense of ‘to lead’ is NOT ‘lead’! I know it’s easy to confuse it with ‘read’, but it is NOT the same. Just stop it!
“loose” (for “lose”)
“definately”
and even worse
“defiantly” (“definitely”)