Idiots...
... who mistake "breath" for "breathe" e.g. "I had to get out - I couldn't breath".

And "loose" for "lose" e.g. "Where did you loose it?" when they aren't asking about an arrow.

Also, tangentially, idiots who can't tell the difference between bad spelling and bad typing.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:18, 15 replies)

add "definately" and "existance" to that list
and you've got yourself a vote, my friend
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:19, closed)

I was guilty of definately
until spellcheckers came along, unfortunately.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:24, closed)

Worse than definately
is defiantly!

I see people using it all the time. I can understand how people can think definately is right as it's phonetically feasible, but defiantly is pure laziness (and fucktardery)
(secretsquirrel, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:50, closed)

"Loose" drives me up the wall.
The difficulty some folk have in distinguishing between "to" and "too" is amazing as well.

*edit* this has just reminded me, I know someone who claims to have an IQ of 170 who constantly makes errors like this. I know it's not an indicator, but it's another piece of evidence pointing to the IQ claim being a porky-pie.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:25, closed)

I'll add a disturbing trend towards
"rediculous".

I give it 5 years before it's a recognised alternative to ridiculous.
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:33, closed)

If it's good enough for Shakespeare ...

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:51, closed)

Shakespeare was a bad example;
he just made it up as he went along.
www.rediculous.co.uk/
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:56, closed)

Elizabethans generally did. Their approach to spelling and grammar was liberal to say the very least.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:00, closed)

Bloody idiots; the lot of 'em.

( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:07, closed)

because no one could read and write
but now nearly everyone can, there is no excuse.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:35, closed)

Yebbut language is always evolving, innit?
Part of that is through common misspelling. Look at "OK" - the origins of that are already getting lost in the myftf of thyme.

Aluminium likewise - the Shermans are right, we're wrong - the i was put in by Europeans who didn't like the spelling, which was originally linguisitically more accurate.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:53, closed)

my mrs is guilty of this
and saying loose instead of lose
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:25, closed)

Separate
always used to flummox me. For some reason at primary school, nobody could spell because, and I couldn't understand why.

Accommodation is one people are never sure about, except sign-writers who probably cash in on it by going back to correct signs afterwards.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:37, closed)

I recently had to get a bunch of videos remade
because the AV department couldn't spell accommodation on the title card
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 16:05, closed)

I've been seeing a lot of 'c' for 's' spellings lately
Such as 'responce', 'groce' (gross; took me ages to figure out it had nothing to do with a grocer's) and similar. I loathe it. Also, 'sells' for 'sales'. If you *sell* items and have sold something, it's a *sale*.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 23:43, closed)