Word or spelling errors which frequently crop up on social media posts (Trivia)

[GordonT]

Noone for no one. Always causes me to think of Peter Noone (the Herman of Herman's Hermits).

 

[Howardh]

Noone for no one. Always causes me to think of Peter Noone (the Herman of Herman's Hermits).

Wasn't there a Noone that played for Bolton? Insert your own gag...

Can this thread include the misuse of apostrophe's???

Meanwhile they're/their misuse (etc) seem to crop up a lot - but one word I can never spall and have to look it up all the time is maintainence. Maintenance...

And a really frequent one is Grammer for Grammar hence my signature once "I went to Grammer school where I learned to spell".

 

[DelW]

I'm surprised how often people leave out words like "not", so completely turning the meaning of their sentence on its head. Do they not proof read at all before they reply? Autocorrupt mucks mine up so frequently that I always try to reread them before clicking the Post button.

On a more trivial level, "of" instead of "have" grates more than it ought to with me. "I would have", or "I would've", yes, but "I would of" ... never!

 

[gmaguire]

Definately
Busses
Seperately

 

[BingMan]

Definately
Busses
Seperately

Break for brake. On both motoring and cycling fora

 

[AndyPJG]

Can this thread include the misuse of apostrophe's???

Yes! Especially its/it's, which even the BBC can't get it right a lot of the time'

 

[GordonT]

Can this thread include the misuse of apostrophe's???

Definitely (or definately or even better defiantly )

 

[43096]

Break for brake. On both motoring and cycling fora

And train fora!

Trail instead is trial is a regular too.

 

[Royston Vasey]

Less instead of fewer

 

[pdq]

Everyday (common) instead of every day (daily)

 

[AlterEgo]

Phase and faze.

 

[GordonT]

Phase and faze.

It's a mute point.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Bought and brought.

Paid and payed is one I've noticed crop up a lot recently too.

 

[Gloster]

In the disputes and prosecutions there are often people who say they are being persecuted over a fair. No, you are being prosecuted over a fare.

 

[Railsigns]

Noone for no one.

That's just part of a wider trend where an alarming number of people seem to be arbitrarily applying a rule that says "a word with fewer than three letters should be combined with the word that follows it", resulting in such nonsense as "alot", "aswell", "atleast", "infact", "infront" and "upto", etc.

 

[Howardh]

Definitely (or definately or even better defiantly )

I HATE that word with avengence!

We have a bar in town called (after Oasis) Defini...Definat...Definit....Maybe. Just call it "Maybe" huh??

 

[Railsigns]

Everyday (common) instead of every day (daily)

Occasionally I see somebody remark "You learn something new everyday", and it makes me want to reply with "Maybe one day you'll learn how to use compound words correctly."

 

[jfollows]

it’s
all the time when it should be
its

but it doesn’t detract from the meaning

it’s means ’it is’ or ‘it has’ but not the possessive

You either know this or you don’t.

Does it matter? Not a lot.

Is it used incorrectly here and elsewhere - yes, a lot.

 

[GordonT]

it’s means ’it is’ or ‘it has’ but not the possessive
You either know this or you don’t.
Does it matter? Not a lot.

It would matter to an English teacher retired or otherwise and the occasional pedant most likely.

 

[Mr. SW]

in tact for intact

 

[Mojo]

Often see people write “costumer” instead of customer.

 

[alxndr]

The use of weary when people mean wary feels as though it’s coming more common.

 

[Calthrop]

A lovely one which I noticed a while ago -- not on social media, but on a "warning notice" which was "broadcast" on a cash-dispenser screen of one of the UK's leading banks: counselling customers against a particular making-off-with-their-money ruse then in vogue among ingenious and unscrupulous persons. Per the wording, folk were alerted to the threat that they might -- sic -- "fall pray to a scam which [would work this, that and the other way]". Put me in mind of an atheist in America, urging his fellow-citizens against being, in autumn, deluded into engaging in religious nonsense...

 

[Peter C]

One which annoys me is when people say things like "the bag in which the book was placed in" or "the shop to which I go to" -- might not be completely incorrect (not too sure actually), with the preposition being repeated. Always gives me the impression that someone is trying to sound smart but always ends up grating on me! I ought to get out more...

-Peter

 

[londonbridge]

Loose instead of lose.

 

[gmaguire]

Then instead of than

“Sitting down is better then standing”

 

[Silver Cobra]

A very simple one, but I've seen 'dose' instead of 'does' a fair few times recently, mainly on Discord.

 

[GordonT]

Expressing fulsome agreement by inventing the expression "Here! Here!" to which there is a temptation to respond "Where? Where?".
Expressing the inclusion of similar related matters by inventing the abbreviated expression ect. ect.

 

[dangie]

Any words which end in ‘ly’ or ‘ley’
Why the hell can’t we just have the one?

 

[fraser158]

I'm surprised how often people leave out words like "not", so completely turning the meaning of their sentence on its head. Do they not proof read at all before they reply? Autocorrupt mucks mine up so frequently that I always try to reread them before clicking the Post button.

On a more trivial level, "of" instead of "have" grates more than it ought to with me. "I would have", or "I would've", yes, but "I would of" ... never!

In a similar vein, when autocorrect has changed "can't" to can" for some reason.