Little Misspellings You Hate

[Crystal Cuckoo]

"I should of done this"
"I'm going over their to there place."
"Your just pissed becose you're gun is shit"

I twitch involuntarily every time an error similar to the above is made.

 

[Graustein]

I get put off by American spellings a lot.

Yay i'm not the only one! It ticks me off when they can't spell "colour" right.

Keep in mind, to them you're the ones spelling it wrong.

Let's see the language is called "english" is it not? and who spoke it first? we in england, this makes our spellings of the words correct by default. You may not but anyone who argues where spelling wrong needs to get off the high horse and recieve a strike to the privates from samus.

The irony. Oh, Christ, the irony. Look, you guys aren't exactly speaking the original language either, so it doesn't matter. Neither country is wrong.

We're speaking what the language has become from our ancestors, most spellings haven't changed for centuries, then the americans go changing a bunch of words for no real reason (this sort of thing never has a real reason.)

This is just incorrect. English is, has been, and will be for the rest of its existance, a constantly evolving language. What you speak now bears no more resemblance to what was spoken back when the British colonised America than modern US English does. It is just as far removed, and has evolved just as far.

 

[luas_dublin]

I know I'm probably being unreasonable , but when (US sites usually)people use the phrase "addicting" instead of "addictive" It drives me nuts.
Seemingly though if enough people use a word incorrectly it eventually makes it acceptable.
Annoys the bejesus out of me though.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Any use of the word "of" where the word "have" is supposed to go.

eg. "Could of", "would of".

RAGE.

 

[epsilon246]

I get put off by American spellings a lot.

Yay i'm not the only one! It ticks me off when they can't spell "colour" right.

Keep in mind, to them you're the ones spelling it wrong.

Let's see the language is called "english" is it not? and who spoke it first? we in england, this makes our spellings of the words correct by default. You may not but anyone who argues where spelling wrong needs to get off the high horse and recieve a strike to the privates from samus.

The irony. Oh, Christ, the irony. Look, you guys aren't exactly speaking the original language either, so it doesn't matter. Neither country is wrong.

We're speaking what the language has become from our ancestors, most spellings haven't changed for centuries, then the americans go changing a bunch of words for no real reason (this sort of thing never has a real reason.)

This is just incorrect. English is, has been, and will be for the rest of its existance, a constantly evolving language. What you speak now bears no more resemblance to what was spoken back when the British colonised America than modern US English does. It is just as far removed, and has evolved just as far.

It's true to say how we speak the language changes constantly, however spellings of words change far less frequently, we speak differently than even as far as a few decades. but spelling remains constant, pick up an old book and you will see what I mean. Though the prounounciations (yeah that's spelled wrong but you know what I mean) often does.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

"Ow" instead of "Oh".

"Pleaz" instead of "Please".

"Could/should/would of" instead of "Could've" etc.

Misuse of your/you're, their/there/they're, where/were etc.

"L" instead of "Lol". "Lol" is bad enough in itself, "L" is just..[HEADING=1]RAGE[/HEADING]

 

[Graustein]

It's true to say how we speak the language changes constantly, however spellings of words change far less frequently, we speak differently than even as far as a few decades. but spelling remains constant, pick up an old book and you will see what I mean. Though the prounounciations (yeah that's spelled wrong but you know what I mean) often does.

Spelling isn't as constant as you think. Before the Americans abolished superfluous letters, governor, to name one off the top of my head (it's late and I don't have my reference book for this on hand) had a superfluous U after the second O. A few decades ago, tonight, tomorrow, today were all hyphenated. To say that Commonwealth spellings are in any way more inherently valid than American ones, while at the same time not hyphenating tonight or spelling governor with a U, is rather hypocritical, don't you think? Unless you think that the British have some sort of right to alter the spelling of their words as they see fit, while the Americans don't, purely as a result of geography ("I was born in the UK and therefore my new spelling is more valid than yours!"). Which sounds pretty silly to me.

 

[Auric]

Nothing in particular

If i did, it would be hypocritical seeing as im often the one making these mistakes.

Though its suprising how many people spell "thief" wrong.

 

[joshuaayt]

Oh, just the obvious ones. I read fanfiction a lot, so...not a lot I can do.
That said, mix up lose and loose and I may just have to use unpleasant language.

 

[Joachim Aachen]

I get put off by American spellings a lot.

Yay i'm not the only one! It ticks me off when they can't spell "colour" right.

Keep in mind, to them you're the ones spelling it wrong.

Let's see the language is called "english" is it not? and who spoke it first? we in england, this makes our spellings of the words correct by default. You may not but anyone who argues where spelling wrong needs to get off the high horse and recieve a strike to the privates from samus.

The irony. Oh, Christ, the irony. Look, you guys aren't exactly speaking the original language either, so it doesn't matter. Neither country is wrong.

We're speaking what the language has become from our ancestors, most spellings haven't changed for centuries, then the americans go changing a bunch of words for no real reason (this sort of thing never has a real reason.)

Yeah, whatever you say. If you're going to argue about spelling though, you could at least improve you're grammar (there's a shift key for a reason.)

Well, your/you're and too/to get under my skin the most.
But I have to say, I am American, and I use either spelling; Firefox just likes to be a jerk and correct my spelling to the Americanized "color" instead of "colour". It's mostly an option of which one is more convenient at the time and place, though.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

I have a short list:
Anyways - It's anyway goddammit.
Turrent - The worst one. I mean where the hell did that 'n' come from?
Rouge instead of Rogue
Any word with a random apostrophe.

 

[epsilon246]

It's true to say how we speak the language changes constantly, however spellings of words change far less frequently, we speak differently than even as far as a few decades. but spelling remains constant, pick up an old book and you will see what I mean. Though the prounounciations (yeah that's spelled wrong but you know what I mean) often does.

Spelling isn't as constant as you think. Before the Americans abolished superfluous letters, governor, to name one off the top of my head (it's late and I don't have my reference book for this on hand) had a superfluous U after the second O. A few decades ago, tonight, tomorrow, today were all hyphenated. To say that Commonwealth spellings are in any way more inherently valid than American ones, while at the same time not hyphenating tonight or spelling governor with a U, is rather hypocritical, don't you think? Unless you think that the British have some sort of right to alter the spelling of their words as they see fit, while the Americans don't, purely as a result of geography ("I was born in the UK and therefore my new spelling is more valid than yours!"). Which sounds pretty silly to me.

Hyphons getting dropped is more grammer than spelling. As for "superflous", correct me if I'm wrong but that means unnecessary no? Letters in words are never unnecessary the fact is our eyes see the shapes of the words so every letter is important. THough i'm pretty sure I've seen governour more than governor. And the very fact that the language is english, it originates here, makes our spellings more valid. And I said spellings don't change very often, due to how we are taught using the same spellings. The americans dropping letters is pointles, and it urks me when they assume their new spelling takes precedence. Look at wikipedia, I had a friend who corrected "gramme" (given that this is a name changing it is fundamentaly wrong)and someone changed it back, see what I mean.

 

[Nocturnal558]

Misspelling sense as 'sence' D: It doesn't really piss me off, but it's kind of annoying.

 

[Hithlain]

alright is not a word all right!?!?!? Even if word says it is, it isn't. I hate it when people use that because it shows how much they didn't pay attention in English class.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright

http://ezinearticles.com/?SAT-Prep---Is-Alright-All-Right?&id=1865318

 

[Antiparticle]

Someone I know has recently started misspelling "of" as "off" everywhere. For instance: "The best game off 2009". I have no idea why, English is his native language and he never did this before. But then again, he's kind of weird.

More generally, there's always the infamous "it's" in sentences like "this game is great, the final bossfight is it's only problem". That's a sneaky one, I see it done many many times, even by people whose English is otherwise flawless.

 

[UpSkirtDistress]

I use text message/msn writing alot (minus here of course) some things are fairly self-explanitory such as "yea dat party last nyt was rele gud ,I mite go as far as 2 say Gr8" what really gets me is when people leave out vowels to shorten words or spell things with letters. As for common spelling mistakes if i make a mistake get over it.

 

[BubbaJeff]

Colour
antidisenstablishmentarianism
Wierd
Sigfried

those annoy me to no end, however, there are only like 9 people in my entire town who know who Siegfried is anyway. GO XANTAN

Colour is the real spelling.

But it shouldn't be, the u serves no purpose

The 'u' is there so you can distinguish between the pronunciation - otherwise it would sound like 'colon'. Say it with me. No? Well fine.

 

[BubbaJeff]

alright is not a word all right!?!?!? Even if word says it is, it isn't. I hate it when people use that because it shows how much they didn't pay attention in English class.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright

http://ezinearticles.com/?SAT-Prep---Is-Alright-All-Right?&id=1865318

One picky bloke doesn't beat the dictionary. If its in common use, its a word.

 

[Trotgar]

For me it is the definately.