reely bad spelling

Fat_Larry

tony222 wrote: »

Next time you have the news on TV, any channel. Listen out for the incorrect use of "there's" Every reporter or presenter seems to do it. "There's people" for example. "There's cars", "There's MP's"

"There are" seems to have almost disappeared. Strange because if you try it the other way round it really does sound like you doing an impression of Wurzel Gummage.

"there's people I live next door to" doesn't sound half as thick as saying "there are a man I live next door to" but they are both equally incorrect. Maybe I'm just getting used to it and it's another example of the evolution of the English language.

Dats it, I gotta miss, get me?

Completely agree: almost every morning on the traffic news I hear "There's delays..."

Can I also moan about incorrect use of the apostrophe and "ones" instead of "those" please?

LittleMissKitty

My current pet hate is the use of the 'ur' text speak term to mean 'you will'. The number of times I've seen people write 'ur be fine'. It make my brain scream obsenities.

NBLondon

pinkteapot wrote: »

There is some truly depressing spelling on this site. One example I saw recently was somebody talking about "restbite" (respite).expressing themselves.

I suspect this sort of thing is because people hear a word on TV or in conversation but have never seen it written down and thus spell it as they hear it.

Thus the all too common habit of writing "should of" when what they mean is "should have" and what they have heard is "should've".

It can also explain odd spellings of given names - I once met a Shyvonne whose mother liked the sound but had never seen it written down as Siobhan.

The one that really niggles me though is one I have seen in every workplace I have ever been employed - including a university.

Stationary Cupboard.

Well of course it is... it's a real pain trying to get a new pen out of a cupboard that keeps moving about

pineapple

LittleMissKitty wrote: »

My current pet hate is the use of the 'ur' text speak term to mean 'you will'. The number of times I've seen people write 'ur be fine'. It make my brain scream obsenities.

You missed the 'c' out of obscenities he he... :rotfl:

pineapple

American spelling really does seem to be taking over. If it wasn't bad enough people talking about a 'sence' of humour we now have driving 'license' instead of licence. People are all at sea with their 's's and 'c's

Dave_C_2

pineapple wrote: »

American spelling really does seem to be taking over. If it wasn't bad enough people talking about a 'sence' of humour we now have driving 'license' instead of licence. People are all at sea with their 's's and 'c's

That should be S's and C's.

Several style guides use apostrophe to pluralise single letters to avoid confusion between the puralised letter and other pairs of letters, such as SS (name of a ship) and CS (tear gas).

"Ps and Qs" do not normally take an apostrophe.

But yes, American (lack of) spelling is annoying. "Drive thru" gets my goat.

Dave

Azari

pineapple wrote: »

American spelling really does seem to be taking over. If it wasn't bad enough people talking about a 'sence' of humour we now have driving 'license' instead of licence. People are all at sea with their 's's and 'c's

It's a shame that the poor old yanks get the blame for things which are not their fault.

'Sence' is not a US spelling of 'sense'. It is an error!

And with license, it's unsurprising that people get confused. They might be getting confused with the US spelling or the might be getting the verb and noun spellings confused. You can confuse 'licence' without ever leaving these isles.

mttylad

Yeah well lol, I'm partially slysdexic lol and it takes me twice as long as you to write a post lol.

Because I have to go back lol on every single word and spell check and correct them lol.

So far in this post I have corrected 8 words. lol, lol, roflmao.

maybe if I stopped spell checkimng then my posts would ll look like this.
maybe its thisis damn laptop keyboard or me thinking of the words fatser than my fingers can type them. Hang on while I try a proper keyuboard, there hows that?
Nope, I messed that one up. where can I find a fat finger keyboard?
roflmao...

dzug1

NBLondon wrote: »

I suspect this sort of thing is because people hear a word on TV or in conversation but have never seen it written down and thus spell it as they hear it.

Thus the all too common habit of writing "should of" when what they mean is "should have" and what they have heard is "should've".

I'm sure you are right. The trouble is they then see the wrong version plastered all over the internet and think it must be right

pinkteapot

Cheap: Low in cost, inexpensive
Cheep: The noise a bird makes

You'd think that on a site that's all about money saving, people would be able to spell 'cheap'.