Pedant warning: Frequently misspelled words

[Testarossa]

I'm sorry to post this. I can't help myself -- it's an OCD moment. I spent my career as a magazine editor and writer, and my inner proofreader sometimes overpowers my social skills. So I'll do this once and never again.

Apologies to those betrayed by auto-type or spell check.

road = a surface we ride on
rode = past tense of "to ride"
break = to screw something up
brake = what slows us down, or the act of slowing down
lead = (soft e) a heavy, malleable metal, or (hard e) to ride at the front of the group
led = past tense of "to lead"

[Shorty]

[oldbike54]

 Must already be Winter in Colorado 

 I prefer the English spellings and or pronunciations of certain words .

 for MI dable instead of for ma da bel , tyre , aluminium , etc .

 Dusty

[antmanbee]

I love reading about how quite an exhaust is.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

The one that gets me is "marquee"
1.
NORTH AMERICAN
a rooflike projection over the entrance to a theater, hotel, or other building.
2.
BRITISH
a large tent used for social or commercial functions.

used when "marque" (a make of vehicle, as distinct from a specific model) is really what was meant.

And is it really so hard to type "Guzzi" instead of "MG" (Morris Garages)? 

[Triple Jim]

Here's one:   Using "fitment" to mean "fit" or "installation", as in "I have a question about proper fairing fitment."

From the Meriam-Webster site:

Definition of fitment
chiefly British
:furnishing 2, fixture, cabinetry �usually used in plural

[Orange Guzzi]

Yeatyet = Did you eat yet
Momnem =Mom and them
Sup= What is up
Monn=Come on

And the we have two, too, to and 2.
Residence or resident?

We speak fluid Southern Indiana Redneck round these parts. 
 

Sometimes it is the message, other times it is the messenger that makes the point.   

[fotoguzzi]

[fossil]

It seems to be normal that people generally type "guage" when they describe a "gauge" in the diverse technical fora. Be it an instrument or a measure.

[oldbike54]

 Eye fynd itt youseful two naught wurry abowt howe uthers rite wurds , its moar emportant two no watt thay mean .

 Dusty

[Steph]

Ok!
But  it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 

[kirkemon]

If you like learning grammar, there's a good podcast called Grammar Girl, you can send her questions as well.
 

[oldbike54]

Ok!
But  it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 

 Know , tath is uhnother izzue .

 Dusty

[Noguzznoglory]

you forgot to publish the difference between "sale"  and "sell"
not to mention the correct use of "their"and "there"

 

[Shorty]

And then there are those pathetic satin worshippers 

[oldbike54]

 Deal is fellas , there are a lot of very intelligent people who have a hard time spelling . Occasionally it is because English isn't their native language , sometimes it's because their 3 year old is editing .
Heck , ever tried to read Chaucer ?

 Dusty

[Kiwi_Roy]

I always have a hard time writing color instead of colour which shows up as a miss-spell

[Lumpy Idle]

yes testarossa i'm with you on this. i have to confess though that i am a sloppy keyboardist. i often let misssspellings go. the stuff that bugs me though is more grammatical.  the absolute implosion of subject-verb agreement is like fingernails on the blackboard to me. the disappearance of HAVE, WERE and ARE be annoying. i blame the schools. there are legions of school kids these days who are being taught to the test and the test doesn't stress subject-verb agreement. alas. soon everything will be "they has lots of apples" "we is going to the store" and "they was all like super aggro about my grammer."

finally, i mourn the loss of the word "fewer." "less" has replaced "fewer" in all things. there is a great scene in GoT from 2 seasons back wherein there is a meeting of the crows to talk about all things john snow. at one point a lesser crow uses "less" when he should use "few" and one of the higher up crows corrects him as an aside. the erring crow then turns to him and "wha?" the higher crow just shrugs and says "never mind."  this one little scene had me double over giggling. to each their own.

they say language is plastic and one of the joys of the Firefly TV series was the way in which they mashed up words from various languages to make a contemporary whole.  i am old and crotchety though and the abuse of some forms of grammar manufacturers lingering irkitude  in me.

[Andy1]

My bike has tyres, not tires.
Mudguards not fenders.

I don’t mind you guys using our language instead of developing your own, but don’t abuse something you are borrowing.  If we took it back what would you be left with?   Rap?


AndyB

[oldbike54]

 So for all of you who are demanding the correct use of the English language , some of you are confusing grammar and mechanics , so there 

 "Hey brah , you like beef?" Anyone want to take a stab at what that means ?

 Dusty

[pikipiki]

Deal is fellas , there are a lot of very intelligent people who have a hard time spelling . Occasionally it is because English isn't their native language , sometimes it's because their 3 year old is editing .
Heck , ever tried to read Chaucer ?

 Dusty

In Germany every so often they take note of how people are mis-pronouncing and misspelling and alter the rules to suit. Obviously a lot of people complain when the misspellings become spellings and  bang on about it so much that after a few years every one knows the words that were misspelt and they change the spelling back again, all the time emphasising that spelling really is an expression of personality and no one should get to hot and bothered if others do not spell the way they do.

Not that I got hot and bothered about spelling, look I already made at least one mistake above but I do have some confusion about dove as the past tense of dive. Where did dove come from?

[Chesterfield]

The worst is your and you're no spellcheck will help with that one.

[oldbike54]

In Germany every so often they take note of how people are mis-pronouncing and misspelling and alter the rules to suit. Obviously a lot of people complain when the misspellings become spellings and  bang on about it so much that after a few years every one knows the words that were misspelt and they change the spelling back again, all the time emphasising that spelling really is an expression of personality and no one should get to hot and bothered if others do not spell the way they do.

Not that I got hot and bothered about spelling, look I already made at least one mistake above but I do have some confusion about dove as the past tense of dive. Where did dove come from?

 Because it is easier to pronounce than divven ? 

 Language is incredibly fluid , English has gone thru (see) several changes over the last 300 years, what we speak and write today would seem strange to even an early American , and certainly an Englishman or Australian is completely comfortable using words , spellings , and phrases that a Yorkshireman from 1860 might find odd .

 Dusty

[nc43bsa]

it's vs. its

then vs. than

mischievous vs. mischievious (no such word)

[webmost]

"I thank God that I spel like a gentilman and nott a pedant"
... Sir Francis Drake

[Triple Jim]

it's vs. its

Yes, it's = "it is"

[Testarossa]

I'm glad to see that everyone has sore points. The other thing that galls me (not gauls me) is pronouns. "Me and her went swimming" makes me cross-eyed. Simple courtesy suggests that the speaker give the other party precedence, as in "She and I went swimming." It's a prejudice of course, but when I hear pronouns misused I think "This cretin was too dumb to pass fourth grade."

[balvenie]

Owing to the rain, the cricket was cancelled.
    Not,  "Due to".

[cloudbase]

Don't loose your cool over this.

[Pop]

U r rite, ewe no.
In jest
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