Pedant warning: Frequently misspelled words

[Huzo]

I'm glad someone who is not a ready target brought this up.
If I'd raised it, someone would have torn me a new one. But a couple of days ago, it was so bad I thought the poster was taking the piss... I actually wondered if English was not their first language so therefore it would have been understandable.
But....Jeeezzzz !
(I better proof read everything I post now for the next 5 years.)

[Huzo]

Well said Lumpy.
Try to fit a capital in at the start of your sentence if you could mate..
BTW,  I'm going to let "misssspellings" go, (this time).

[Testarossa]

Thanks, Lumpy. I have the same allergy to less vs fewer. Also to lowering. We lower things (taxes for instance) now instead of reducing.

Ambiguous terms. Sanction for instance can mean to bless or approve -- or to punish. Nearly opposite meanings. Why use the word at all?

[oldbike54]

 Miss Spellings , she worked in the local men's store here .

 Fellas , some folks have a hard time spelling . Some of us have the ability to spell and structure sentences in a way that everyone understands , but whose math skills are incredibly lacking .
Ease up , the person I know who has the greatest mechanical ability can barely spell his own name.

 Dusty

[Huzo]

Miss Spellings , she worked in the local men's store here .

 Fellas , some folks have a hard time spelling . Some of us have the ability to spell and structure sentences in a way that everyone understands , but whose math skills are incredibly lacking .
Ease up , the person I know who has the greatest mechanical ability can barely spell his own name.

 Dusty

Bugger it...!
Your write again !

[wrbix]

Dampener vs Damper.

[Huzo]

Dampener vs Damper.

Yep...
I reckon eye've bean guilty of that won !

[oldbike54]

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

 Dusty

 No one even has any idea what this question means ?

[Murray]

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"

Actually none of those words are misspelled, you are describing the incorrect use of a homonym :D .

[oldbike54]

Actually none of those words are misspelled, you are describing the incorrect use of a homonym :D .

 Of coarse 

 Dusty

[Shorty]

No one even has any idea what this question means ?

A haoli pretending to be native hawaian asking someone if they want to fight?   

[nyITguy]

Would have, could have, should have.

Would of, could of, should of.


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[oldbike54]

A haoli pretending to be native hawaian asking someone if they want to fight?   

 I had to strain my memory , the real quote is ; "Eh haole boy , you like beef ?" It is pidgin English as spoken in the Hawaiian Islands . I heard a different pidgin spoken in the Philippines and on Trinidad Tobago .

 Dusty

[Tom]

I had to strain my memory , the real quote is ; "Eh haole boy , you like beef ?" It is pidgin English as spoken in the Hawaiian Islands . I heard a different pidgin spoken in the Philippines and on Trinidad Tobago .

 Dusty

Pidgin English is classified as a type of Creole English.  Even if you don't understand it in written form.  You'll get the drift when someone decides to communicate with you non-verbally.  Which reminds me of some advice my dad gave me.  "Make sure that they're no witnesses."   

https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/hce.html

[Shorty]

I had to strain my memory , the real quote is ; "Eh haole boy , you like beef ?" It is pidgin English as spoken in the Hawaiian Islands . I heard a different pidgin spoken in the Philippines and on Trinidad Tobago .

 Dusty

I'm not that well traveled, but several of my Yankee buddies moved to Hawaii and every one of them came back with the the tired old  " shakka brah"   

[redhawk47]

Yes, homonym misuse is one of my pet peeves:
sight/site/cite
their/there/they're
https://www.sbcc.edu/clrc/files/wl/downloads/CommonlyMisusedWords.pdf

Dan

[oldbike54]

 What next , diagramming sentences . Is that a dangling participle , oh noes 

 Dusty

[nc43bsa]

"My dad took Jimmy and I to the ice cream shoppe"



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[Yukonica]

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.
 

interesting.
 

[Triple Jim]

Dampener vs Damper.

Like it or not, the dictionary says both are correct for your lower photo.  I like "damper" better because it isn't ambiguous.  Or is it, since a damper can also be an adjustable valve in a chimney?

How about "I feel badly about what happened"?

[alanp]

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.
 

How true!  I was struck by how easy that was to read.  Interesting. 

[oldbike54]

 We're not even gonna get into ad hominem and add homonym , so donut go there, 'kay  .

 Dusty

[Huzo]

How true!  I was struck by how easy that was to read.  Interesting.

Well said Alan. I was also surprised, the brain must adjust and correct for errors "on the fly" as it were.

[Murray]

Well said Alan. I was also surprised, the brain must adjust and correct for errors "on the fly" as it were.

Something about when reading the first and last letter and the length and shape of the word is what is recognised rather than each individual letter. Point in case some years ago two motorcyclists when down the local highway for a bit of a run  been on the biggest and fastest things available at the time (NGC) their progress was fairly rapid.

Now this was stupid on a number of levels partly because this highway runs between to two major population centres and is fairly heavily patrolled, on top of that this place been literally 1.5 times the size of Texas with a fraction of the population there are a lot of places you can go and there will be no one to notice let alone anyone who can write a ticket.

They went past people who could write a ticket at very high speed but only one of them was caught latter after the Police got his numberplate on the way past. It was a personalised numberplate with a word on it the police were able to catch that one as they went past. The guy with the regular plate which is a random assemblage of letters and numbers was never caught as the police didn't manage to get a positive ID on the way past.

Similar to the overly complex looking instrument panels of a multi engine aircraft back in the analogue days of flight engineers the engineer doesn't read the number each instrument is reading they look for the position of the needle and familiarity of the layout tells them what the instrument actually reads.

[Huzo]

Yep Murray.
We're a weird mob !

[jacksonracingcomau]

One that really really gets me is misspelt

NFI how anyone can't look that up, bit like a gallon, can't change it by crossing the Atlantic you know

misspell
mɪsˈspɛl/Submit
verb
past tense: misspelt; past participle: misspelt
spell (a word) wrongly.
"‘siege’ had been misspelt as ‘seige’"

[Zoom Zoom]

Yep Murray.
We're a weird mob !

Yes, but we're entertaining if nothing else.

John Henry

[webmost]

Would have, could have, should have.

Would of, could of, should of.


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Everyone knows that's wuddacuddashudda

[John A]

 Probably has 6 or more spellings that one can enjoy confusing the auto correct with

[Tom]

I'm not that well traveled, but several of my Yankee buddies moved to Hawaii and every one of them came back with the the tired old  " shakka brah" 

Just as "tired" as the rock-n-roll "shakka" with the tongue hanging out.