You’d think that, but they don’t.
An ad for a TV show on free-to-air over here. This is a proper ad campaign, that ran for a week before the show aired. The tagline was “They say that bad luck comes in three’s” and then continued on with “Well, their right”
There will definately be a few people pleased to learn that inability to write is not a bar to a career in writing.
In the words of someone more clever on this very board, an apostrophe does not equal HERE COMES AN S!!!
Ahh yes…Those Pesky Apostrophe’s.
I’m a very good speller; one of the best in my office. I used to spell “separate,” “definitely,” and “desperate” correctly without a second thought, but I’ve seen them misspelled so many times on this board that now I have to look them up when I use them – just to be sure!
It’s depressing. 
(And sometimes its deppresing.)
Threads at SDMB have made me the question my spelling of ‘recommend’. (More than one person here has spelled it ‘reccomend’.)
There’s a bar near the studio called Cocoanut Grove. Naturally I call it ‘Chocolate Nut’. (NB. Wikipedia lists two famous nightclubs with that misspelling.)
Cocoanut is completely legitimate. I had to look it up, though, after seeing “cocoanut matting” in Sherlock Holmes stories.
Even I spell things wrong ocassionally.
If you went their, youd proably knead sum cash. Is they’re an ATM machine near buy?
I looked it up on Cambridge, and it didn’t have an entry for ‘cocoanut’:
I think they have an ATM machine, but I keep forgetting my PIN number.
It wasn’t in my big red hardback Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, but Merriam-Webster Online has it, though not a definition. (You have to pay for that, I guess.) I did find it on www.dictionary.com and it’s listed as an alternative in the Oxford English Dictionary online as well.
:eek: I guess for $295/year you get more words.
Guess so. I was rather disappointed not to find it in Big Red, though.
Of course I named my dictionary. Didn’t you?
Ugh, I used to date a woman who got apostrophies wrong with absolute consistency, using them for plurals and not for posessives, except of course in the case of “it.”
Just today I got an online ad from an Arizona portal with an ad for a local car dealership, they touted the prices on “Avalanche’s, Siverado’s and Cobalts’s”
Jesus that last one made my teeth grind.
I always have to break this word down when I spell it:
Def
fin
nite
ly
Otherwise, I may as well be trying to spell hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
I seen that!
Shaddap yer whinin’!
I make a lot of spelling errors. Then again, every once in a while I notice errors in newspapers and magazines. On the message board, though, it doesn’t bother me. I just assume it’s a more informal type of medium. Usually I imagine people typing their ideas off the top of their head, without bothering to spell check. As long as it’s comprehensible, and just the random error, I don’t mind, really. I find leet more annoying—it’s either just laziness or a silly, pointless attempt to be different. Why does someone type “u,” and not “you”? It’s not that hard to produce the other two letters. Not that I haven’t done it a few times myself…
I just got my copy of Snow by Tracy Lynn from Amazon, and cringed when I saw that the print on the back in the Read These Neat Books Too section spelled ‘Daughter’ in The Storyteller’s Daughter as ‘Daugter’. In all caps. Right next to the tiny picture of the cover with the correctly spelled title. :smack:
The people who put the cover together should be smacked.
As for ‘cocoanut’, mightn’t that be an archaic spelling? I could swear I’ve seen it in something like The Swiss Family Robinson.
I’ll concede that point. Besides, my ‘Coconut Pork Pie’ has ‘Cocoanut’ on the sweatband.
Don’t you mean “prolly”?