Grammar. An insane number of the posts in threads complaining about spelling and grammatical errors have people that spell it “grammer.”
Oy, the irony…
I think the most consistently misspelled word is “hamster.”
Back when the board was really slow (it’s better now, for some reason) there were innumerable “What’s wrong with the board?” threads, and there would always be “hampster” jokes. The next couple of posts would be from people saying “Damn it! It’s ‘hamster,’ there’s no ‘p’ in the word!” The next couple of posts after that would be people saying either “Whoops, I didn’t know, thanks” or “Geez, what a spelling Nazi.” The posts after that would go right back to “hampster.”
Deity.
The most commonly misspelled word I see here is likely “weird”. Forgot that i before e rule you learned in grade school–there are way too many exceptions!!
I still use the practise/practice, license/licence division to which istara refers above. It was drummed into us at school that -ise is the verb form and -ice the noun, and it always looks wrong to me when I see the verb used for both.
Hmmm…it appears that “atheist” is misspelled as “athiest” a lot.
alot
It happens so frequently, that I’m not sure if it’s on purpose or not: cow-orkers.
(There’s apparently a lot of people orking cows out there.)
I think most appearances of cow-orker are done purposefully, although it is an easy typo to make.
“To” for “too”
I know, it’s not that funny, but it is one of the most common misspellings, at least in my own e-mails and Internet posts. Its not that I don’t know the difference, I just often type the wrong word, and of course spell check doesn’t catch it.
“Mispelled” is pretty funny.
Too many people on this board masterbate, and not enough masturbate.
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Gods, yes. I see that one all the time–bugs the hell out of me.
As well as the usual their/there/they’re, your/you’re, and to/too/two mixups.
I’m definitely tired of seeing ‘definitely’ spelled with an ‘a’.
[sub]Did Ringo whoosh me?[/sub]
Viola, meaning Voila
alot and alright.
NONONONONONONO. NO.
SMDB
Yeah, it’s intentional - it’s a reference to a Dilbert book, where Scott Adams describes his experiences as a youth “orking cows”. I read it a while back, and I must have borrowed it from somebody, because it’s not one of the ones I own (I checked), so I’m not able to provide a cite.
How about “perscription” for “prescription”? I see that all the time, and I don’t know if it is a typo, or if people really think it’s “perscription”.
I’m probably too new here to have any business whining (and I’m picking nits about grammar rather than spelling, so I’m off topic, too :)), but I have never before seen cite' used as a noun. Cite is a verb, as in Could you cite somebody here to back up your point?’ The most appropriate nouns would be citation' or reference’, as in `Do you have a citation for that point?’
/me stops picking nits
A few that I’ve seen repeatedly on the SDMB:
argument (it’s not arguement)
judgment (it’s not judgement)
And the granddaddy of them all…
no one
It’s no one, folks. Two words. No hyphen.
not noone
not no-one
It’s no one!