Words

[gwh200]

What about a ballet dancing pair of pluralists.

You two, in your tutu too

[Fey!]

My personal favourite is "Brake", which is too mechanically come to a stop, and "Break", which is to disassemble by awkwardness (in my case at least!).

I see this used incorrectly on a lot of motoring forums, often by people proclaiming to be motoring experts.

[Rustinho]

My personal favourite is "Brake", which is too mechanically come to a stop, and "Break", which is to disassemble by awkwardness (in my case at least!).

I see this used incorrectly on a lot of motoring forums, often by people proclaiming to be motoring experts.

"Irony - it's a bit like goldy or bronzey only it's made of iron"
S. Baldrick

[flounderbout]

On a separate point, separate is not spelled seperate.
And definitely is definitely not spelled definetely.

[gwh200]

And affect and effect...seeing it wrong...it makes my shit itch.

[Predictable Bob]

Yay !

Brake/break, separate/seperate and affect/effect are in my top five most irritating mistakes

[Fey!]

"Irony - it's a bit like goldy or bronzey only it's made of iron"
S. Baldrick

If only I had thought to do that on purpose. Unfortunately it was down to basic stupidity!!

Another thing that grinds my gears is when people blame bad spelling, such as the uses of to/too/two and brake/break, on being dyslexic. If you believed them all, you'd think that 80% of the people on the internet are dyslexic!

It's not dyslexia, it's normally stupidity. Or occasionally a result of being distracted or just not concentrating...

[TonyN]

It's not dyslexia, it's normally stupidity. Or occasionally a result of being distracted or just not concentrating...

Which isn't actually the end of the world, the big problem is laziness vs a mistake.

The former gets on people tits, the later is easily skipped over.

[Bogus]

Many of these "mistakes" will no doubt be accepted English somewhere down the road. English is a living language and constantly changing. Whilst I do not like to see bad spelling, its not something that makes me emotional. As long as I can see the meaning I,ll be cool. I,m not going to confuse, break and brake, draw and drawer. I will probably always understand what is meant based on context. Lack of full stops and commas, and other wee things like that, can make reading and understanding difficult.Their use should be encouraged.
I don,t like those made up words like "zorst" and "tomoz" but again, I can move on after a little grimace to myself. No doubt they will be in the dictionary soon.

[meooo]

Diplomatic as always Toni















ooops, silly mistake there...

[dieselboy]

And affect and effect...seeing it wrong...it makes my shit itch.

I personally struggle with this one. You've probably noticed that I just pick one and use it. I must have read the explanations five or six times but I don't get it.

Effect:
1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.

Affect:

1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.

May be I'll just keep reading it every day and it will go in.

[dieselboy]

"Irony - it's a bit like goldy or bronzey only it's made of iron"
S. Baldrick

Oh the ironing.

[Predictable Bob]

My wife was eventually diagnosed as dyslexic last year - she's over 50 and has been tested on numerous occassions with no problem being found DESPITE the signs being blatantly obvious to everybody that knows her ...

I must admit that I get more than a little irritated with all the alleged dyslexics that just can't be arsed to pay attention to their spelling !

[Wolfracer]

It's one "s" Bob...

[Predictable Bob]

Guilty as charged !