So if you had brakes on your car can you call them “brokes?”
Sorghum Fonts, actually. It’s quite embarassing.
What I find amusing is how often people refer to me as **Shot with Guns **or Shot by Guns. I assure you that neither of *those *things would leave me with a nut-like flavor that hits the spot.
I’ll throw “alright” into the mix. I was amazed to see this being repeatedly used in a novel I was reading earlier this month. Shouldn’t that have been corrected by a copy editor?
It’s in the dictionary. So not unless it was just a malapropism.
Some of you people seriously need a perscription for something to calm you down.
(Gaaaah, it hurt to type it!)
It makes my skin crawl, too.
M-W apparently approves:
… But that doesn’t mean I have to *like *it.
Can I add people who can’t seem to learn even the simplest of first names? My daughter’s name is Kristen. We have a neighbor who speels it Kristine. She pronounces it correctly, but spells it wrong every single time it needs to be spelled, which once resulted in my daughter leaving a birthday party thinking she didn’t get a goodie bag (when she was 4 and could recognize her name spelled out, but not that it was misspelled).
We’ve pointed it out on more than one occasion, but it’s apparently not important enough to remember.
The kicker is that the woman is a teacher.
Well… yes and no.
Firstly, as has been pointed out, “alright” is actually acceptable usage (even though it jars me, too)
More importantly, however, “alright” and its first cousin “alot” are essentially colloquial contractions of phrases – everyone involves recognizes exactly what is meant.
The malapropisms* mentioned earlier are cases where people are using homonyms which are not the same word and do not have the same meaning! (not to mention, lose and loose aren’t even homonyms…) They’re just plain wrong
Now, I really don’t get all stabby at people making the occasional mistake. Og knows I’ve made my share… But I expect people whose malapropisms are pointed out to hang their head in shame, or at least in mild embarrassment – not go on about how it doesn’t matter and we’re all being jack-booted language Nazis for pointing out their errors. Those are the people who make me see red. Or read. Or something…
- Ooh, new word! Thanks
I had no idea “alright” wasn’t… um, ok? Okay? 
Actually, apparently it is, despite many of us who seem to be shocked by the idea…
And anyway, I was saying that even if it were demonstrably wrong, I’d go easier on its users than on proud malapropists (?) who don’t care if they’re using a completely unrelated word to the one they wanted to use.
Well, as Shot From Guns noted:
Indeed.
I am interested, though, that “alright” is in dictionaries. Never occurred to me to look.
Did you mean: homophones
You are right, but so am I, if to a lesser degree.
Cool! I did not know that was hyphenated and have learned something new! dictionary.com also mentions choke-full and chuck-full.
And nearby is my new favorite word (never heard it till I moved here): chockablock 
Not worth saying now…
Yeah chockablock…we used this all the time when I was a kidlet. As in full all the way to the choke point.
[Nitpick]
Although speed is a rate, moving at a high rate of tire revolutions per ounce of rubber deposited on the asphalt, a high rate of footfalls per cracks in the sidewalk or a high rate of ice cream cones per available pocket does not necessarily imply how fast or slow something is traveling.
[/Nitpick]
What exactly is a tounge and how does one stick theirs out?
Sure it is. If you’re the Time-Keeper By Royal Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I and you need to inform other members of the Royal Court (or both members of the public that can read) that a particular event will take place at mid-day. 
Everyone makes spelling mistakes and typos from time to time. No-one is criticising that. But the whole breaks/brakes and lose/loose and you’re/your thing drives me mad. Having said that, I work with words so it’s rather important I know the difference between them and how/when to use them.
And to all those people who whinge “It’s just spelling and u no wut I meen!” when called out on spelling like a 13 year old with a txt addiction: Yes, you’re right. I do know what you mean. And I have disregarded it as unimportant because you’re either not smart enough or considerate enough* to have attempted to communicate in the proper, recognised form currently applicable to the English Language.
*With the obvious exemptions for people who don’t speak English as a first language and people with genuine dyslexia/learning disabilities.