10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

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  • jacolyncoker
    jacolyncoker Posts: 86 Member
    You're all acting as if you've never made a grammar mistake in your life.
  • Jennwith2ns
    Jennwith2ns Posts: 296 Member
    Haha. I'm not perfect at grammar, but lose/loose drives me insane! So many people on FB do that, ugh! It's even harder not to correct spelling errors.. I try my best to mind my own business.
  • DwightJenkins
    DwightJenkins Posts: 58 Member
    You're all acting as if you've never made a grammar mistake in your life.

    Oh I make plenty. But I do care if I do, and I try to not make mistakes. My post was about someone that didn't even care if he did. That's just unacceptable, especially in a business setting.
  • MFPfriend
    MFPfriend Posts: 1,121 Member
    You're all acting as if you've never made a grammar mistake in your life.

    Oh I make plenty. But I do care if I do, and I try to not make mistakes. My post was about someone that didn't even care if he did. That's just unacceptable, especially in a business setting.

    Agreed. I make mistakes all the time- and I'm totally okay with people correcting me. I really don't even correct other people when they speak incorrectly. I don't know, it's just something that bothers me.

    And also, someone mentioned the "should of vs. should have"... I used to always do that! LOL, when someone corrected me, I fixed it right away.
  • MisdemeanorM
    MisdemeanorM Posts: 3,493 Member
    You're all acting as if you've never made a grammar mistake in your life.

    There is a difference between making occasional mistakes or typos and not learning the correct usage of everyday words and phrases. I personally have nothing against typos in forums or casual emails and even in the occasional work document - it happens - but people should know the difference between they're / their / there, its / it's, possessive / plural / plural posessive, etc - even who vs whom is not difficult if you take the time to just learn it.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    :drinker:
  • lilmissy2
    lilmissy2 Posts: 595 Member
    Lots of people I have worked with over the years have tried to argue with me that 'dietitian' should be 'dietician'. Um, hello! I know how to spell my own profession! haha. I think it is actually correct with the 'c' in America though (but these people weren't American so no excuses haha).

    One of my English teacher's pet peeves was people saying 'I this off Brian' rather than 'I got this from Brian' hehe.
  • questionablemethods
    questionablemethods Posts: 2,174 Member
    Heh.

    My biggest pet peeve is when people get so infuriated by the grammatical "mistakes" of others (mistakes in the prescriptive sense). Language is fluid and changing and I think it is fascinating, personally. For example, "an apron" used to be "a napron". It changed because, over time, enough people made "mistakes" with the form that the mistaken form became the accepted standard. Does anyone care now? Has everything gone to *kitten* because of it? Nah. For the large part, we all still understand each other just fine -- or at least as well as we always have.

    Sorry, I just had to butt in and give my two cents. Carry on. :wink:
  • Ms_Natalie
    Ms_Natalie Posts: 1,030 Member
    I have to mention this, but psychological research has suggested that some individuals cannot successfully learn how to correctly spell certain words. The cognitive functions of the brain become confused by what they initially thought was the correct spelling and the actual spelling of the word. Hence the existance of memory/language problems such as Dyslexia! If it was that easy to learn the correct spelling of every word, don't you think everyone would be capable of spelling?

    I still struggle with certain words and know that the one word I had significant difficulty with "Licence" took me a long time to get correct. Another one I have problems with (although they are getting better) is the difference between AFFECT and EFFECT and this is pretty tricky when persuing a career in Psychology! Whoooops :ohwell:

    Hope you all had a lovely weekend! :flowerforyou:
  • MFPfriend
    MFPfriend Posts: 1,121 Member
    I have to mention this, but psychological research has suggested that some individuals cannot successfully learn how to correctly spell certain words. The cognitive functions of the brain become confused by what they initially thought was the correct spelling and the actual spelling of the word. Hence the existance of memory/language problems such as Dyslexia! If it was that easy to learn the correct spelling of every word, don't you think everyone would be capable of spelling?

    I still struggle with certain words and know that the one word I had significant difficulty with "Licence" took me a long time to get correct. Another one I have problems with (although they are getting better) is the difference between AFFECT and EFFECT and this is pretty tricky when persuing a career in Psychology! Whoooops :ohwell:

    Hope you all had a lovely weekend! :flowerforyou:

    Oh, I have nothing against those with difficulty learning it. I think most people here mean to say that people who refuse to learn how to use them. I have people in my English class who, for the life of them, cannot figure out the difference between certain words- and I'm totally cool with that.
    I speak for myself (though I think others may agree) that we speak for those who refuse to learn.
  • rskidmore
    rskidmore Posts: 212
    Spelling and grammatical errors drive me nuts!
  • de1amo
    de1amo Posts: 266 Member
    i have to admit i struggle as to when you use 'used to and use to'---i even teach grammar and i always forget the form once i have finished the lesson!!
  • LotusF1ower
    LotusF1ower Posts: 1,259 Member
    So nobody likes txt spk thn, apparently it's the in fing :laugh:
  • MFPfriend
    MFPfriend Posts: 1,121 Member
    So nobody likes txt spk thn, apparently it's the in fing :laugh:

    Ahhhh!!! My eyes are burning! :laugh:

    Some of my friend type like they would for essays when they text. Some of them txt lyk dis cuz its ez-er. Personally, I won't capitalize my "i" if I'm in a rush- and I've even been known to use the occasional "u" instead of "you." (But only when I'm, like, 3 characters over and don't want my text to be split into 2 pages.
  • skysilver
    skysilver Posts: 73
    I lived in Germany for 18 years -half of my life so I use that as an excuse. If I am tired which is like forever, I misspell an awful lot. The thing is life is an amazing place and my thoughts are with words written or spoken and not the grammer or spelling. Too much to think about do you not agree??
  • stephflo33
    stephflo33 Posts: 160 Member
    The Thornton's gas station by my house has a sign posted that reads: "Now Excepting Applications." I really hope they are looking to replace the sign guy. :laugh:
  • johnsoag
    johnsoag Posts: 59
    hahahahahahaha. I love this. My english professor and I used to discuss things like this on a regular basis.
  • TeamLeela
    TeamLeela Posts: 3,302
    your when it should be you're. Your not getting any smarter! It's you're not getting any smarter!
  • dmvbnoslo
    dmvbnoslo Posts: 213 Member
    Not that I misspell it, but I still think "Colonel" is one of the lamest words in the English language...
  • melodyg
    melodyg Posts: 1,423 Member
    Another common mistake I see: People sometimes write "should of" instead of "should have."

    That said, I don't get annoyed when I see any of these errors on MFP. I do get annoyed when I see them on communications my kids have brought home from school. It's no wonder everyday people get confused when so many teachers and school administrators don't have a grasp of how to properly use the English language.

    Several of my teachers in high school had me proofread and correct the letters THEY wrote as scholarship/college recommendation letters. (I also get "corrections" from my supervisor at work that request I use incorrect grammar to replace my correct usage)

    (And, yes, so many of these drive me crazy as well. Especially their/they're/there and lose/loose)
  • Mirlyn
    Mirlyn Posts: 256
    My most recent annoyance is a girl I know in my neighborhood messages me on facebook occasionally and she always uses "are" for "our." For example: "We should take are kids to the pool." *CRINGE!*
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