I recently encountered someone on this very site repeatedly using “indite” (indict).
I did just learn that “indite” (meaning “to compose, to write”) is a word, if an archaic one, from the Old French “enditer” (meaning “to dictate, to write or draw up, to legally draft”).
But I don’t think that’s what was meant, though.
Recently, the local news had a piece about a law enforcement memorial. The graphic read “Remebering Our Heros.” I believe the graphic was provided to them by the group hosting the memorial event.
However, I’ve noticed other misspellings on this news show. Just last week they had a piece where they interviewed a witness to a crime. They pronounced his name correctly but misspelled it below the video. (It was an obvious mistake.) They didn’t change it in the newscasts later in the day. Don’t they have anyone to proofread this stuff?
On a side note, when Olivia Newton-John sings “Let me hear your body talk,” when getting physical, I tend to think that’s not really the time when I’d want my partner’s body to talk. But hey, different strokes for different folks.
There’s a store near me called “Two Cousin’s Beauty Supply.” Every time I drive past it, I can’t help but stare as at a bad accident.
Then there’s the store with a handmade sign on the door: “WARE SHIRT INSITE.”
The pluralization of words with " 's" was like a massacre that covered the land for decades. It seems to be fading away now. Today, people do not know the difference between “its” and “it’s.” When in doubt, use the apostrophe! Each misuse stabs me in the heart.
I am also of the old school which will never accept the word “alright.” It is NOT a word. Period.
But the worst of all is the new trend to be “formal” and say “between you and I.” Retch! Puke! Hurl! I want to drag people back to school, cram them into little desks, and force them into mandatory English grammar classes. Yes! The will have to spend hours inhaling chalk dust as they stand at blackboards and DIAGRAM SENTENCES! Objective and subjective! Object of the preposition!
I think I need to lie down and put a cool cloth on my forehead.
~VOW
Wow, VOW, I must drive you nuts, or be one of those people who do anyway. I’m not claiming to be anything special, but for me words are like paints and brushes to an artistic painter. I use them to make pictures in my head hoping it makes it across the Great Gap between Thee and Me, syntax and grammar be damned. Spelling mistakes drive me nuts though, especially mine.
Dork, dear, I would gladly leave you to paint glorious word pictures IF you promise me, PROMISE ME, to never say “between you and I.”
~VOW
…in the same city as mine laid off most of its workers. A lot of them put applications in where I worked. Their old company was called ‘Adcor’. About half of their apps listed the previous company worked for as ‘Adco’. That’s the way they pronounced it and that’s the way they spelled it.
This was in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Just thought I’d through that in there.
THROW! A joke, people!
I get it, as a matter of fact, I’m in the throws of laughter now.
Big laffs.
First is a grocery store with a salad bar, that had cornichons (tiny pickles). For years they were spelled “coercions”
Second is the street I live on, when I first moved into the house. The street is one block long. It’s in a bird themed neighborhood. It’s name is “Bobwhite”. And when I moved into the house, the street sign at one end of the street was spelled correctly, and at the other end it was spelled “Bob White”.
Your a moron! That one always cracks me up.
Good riddens!
And I’ve seen definitely spelled various ways, including defiantly.
…‘see the attached photo’s’. Apostrophes give a lot of people problems.
I think it should *always *be spelled “apostrophe’s”.
mmm
Our local post office had a sign out front for years reading “Drop Off Box’s in Rear”.
Also: Pregnate.
All these examples come from one poster (and his army of sock puppets):
Prolly
Imma
Wanna
Gonna
No "g"s are allowed in his present particles.
Will sometime capitalize an “I” at the beginning of sentences, but never within.
Has quite the creative way to spell mosquito.
All this, and more, in one “ramblin” post from someone who constantly talks about “studyin, tryin, and learnin.” I guess some people are apostrophe rich, while others like him reside in an apostrophe desert.
Not for the feint of heart…
[spoiler]WOWWWW! i prolly have to do to school for that and i dunno anybody around that is a HVAC tech! WOWWW! (tryin not to break down and start followin you around and askin questions and bein like a stalker or pesky mosketoe buzzin around cause i just got a rush of adoration and stuff inside me right now!
l think that’s AWESOME! man, theres a lot of cool professional people around this place! imma check and see what all i gotta do to be that!!!
ok i won’t go into every thread you go in so i can see what you like and stuff tho i feel like it. i just wanna follow you around like some kid creep that you can’t get rid of but wow!!! there’s uh uh…The HERO man!!! I like him a lot! Fightin terrorist and stuff! Thas awesome too but i’ll prolly get killed tryin to be like him. I think i rather do other cool stuff and get 7k contracts!!! ok i’ll stop buggin you now! THANKS! i’m inspired now and maybe i’ll go look at my friends father car some more even tho he got a tarp over it to keep us from lookin at it but i still can see the chrome and stuff!
even sneak touch it! ok Thanks for the inspiration. maybe i’ll find a picture i can look at in my profile tho i wasn’t gonna hang out here but cars and stuff? maybe a change in plans!!!
ugh my spellin got worse from excitement…comin back to corretc some stuff. ok. Thanks for the inspiration!!![/spoiler]
Good “Gawd”! I hope that wasn’t the corrected version. This person frequently requested advice on being a better person, increasing his knowledge, etc. My response was…
Moar books. Less internet.
holding up right hand
I confess, I use “gonna.” But I refuse to use the “abbreviations” common to texting.
I do cringe when I hear “going to go.” Why not just “go?”
~VOW
But why?
I confess, I want to get a t-shirt that has “Don’t make me come ‘offa’ my earrings!” on it, but I won’t use that word, or others like it, in text.
Upon seeing your location in Arizona, I am reminded of how many people misspell the city in which I live…“Tuscon.”
Yeah, that happens a lot. Another town from that part of the state that gets misspelled often is Willcox.