Waiting with baited breath...

[Leanna Tomlinson]

Even though "than" and "then" aren't homophones, I see them used incorrectly all the time. I think these two words are homophones to some of my southern in-laws.;)

 

Dessert and desert are two more.

 

"If you want desert, than you better finish you're diner." ;)

[Ginevra]

My all time pet peeve is "could care less."

 

Oh, me too! I want to stick cotton balls in my ears when I hear someone say that. Especially if I hear it on TV or in some other official capacity.

[Ginevra]

and I groan everytime I read Chester Draws

 

and

 

Rod Iron

 

I remember seeing these all the time in the physical newspaper want ads years ago. The one my mother loved to hate was in the classified Help Wanted:

 

"...if you would like to work in a congenital office..." :D

[MariannNOVA]

For all intense and purpose.............................

 

this kind of material makes a great lesson for 4th grade and up.

[nukeswife]

The one that makes me want to scream is when someone writes rilly instead of really

 

I've seen many of the others mentioned too, but the rilly/really one gets me every time. I usually make a "grr" sound when I see it and my dh will ask "Did someone misspell really again?"

[Gooblink]

I find as I've gotten older (and spacier) I'm more prone to typing homonyms sort of on autopilot... like I'll type your for you're or there for their, even though I absolutely know better. It's like my fingers are typing the sound from my brain instead of the meaning. Very disconcerting!

Jackie

 

I hear you! In fact, after reading these I'm fighting the urge to go back and review every one of my forum posts.

 

A few of my son's friends have been talking about duel enrollment this year.

 

This is funny! I was just reading about how Tycho Brahe lost most of his nose in a duel over who was the best mathematician. Maybe his school had duel enrollment. :)

 

I've also seen "last rights," "didn't phase him," "without further adieu," "staff infection"; exulted and exalted mixed up :glare:

 

 

These are good ones!

[LizzyBee]

I've seen right of passage. Grrr.

[MariannNOVA]

I've seen right of passage. Grrr.

 

Isn't that something one needs to know when they get their driver's license OR learner:banghead::banghead: permits????? How many o those does one person need?:001_huh:

[Lightly Salted]

I have a spelling checker.

It came with my pea sea.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

 

Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no.

Its vary polished in it's weigh.

My checker tolled me sew.

 

A checker is a bless sing,

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

And aides me when I rime.

 

Each frays come posed up on my screen

eye trussed too bee a joule.

The checker pours o'er every word

To cheque sum spelling rule.

 

 

 

Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour

spelling mite decline,

And if we're lacks oar have a laps,

We wood bee maid too wine.

 

Butt now bee cause my spelling

Is checked with such grate flair,

Their are no fault's with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a ware.

 

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier.

My pay purrs awl due glad den

With wrapped word's fare as hear.

 

 

 

To rite with care is quite a feet

Of witch won should be proud,

And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

 

 

 

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,

Such soft wear four pea seas,

And why eye brake in two averse

Buy righting too pleas.

 

 

 

 

 

-- Sauce Unknown

 

 

 

 

OH, that was truly painful! :tongue_smilie:

[hsmom3tn]

You all are cracking me up, as usual. :lol:

 

It bugs me to see "cirriculum," especially on a homeschool board. Fortunately, it has been a while since I've seen that one.

 

 

I constantly see people mixing up the words sale, sail and sell...

 

For sell: So and So Curriculum

I am sailing this because my kids want me to buy a saleboat instead.

 

I know I'm not perfect with my spelling and grammar usage, but this drives me nuts... especially on a homeschool board. :tongue_smilie:

[Sun]

Someone posted a listing on craigslist last week for an

 

armwa

 

and I groan everytime I read Chester Draws

 

and

 

Rod Iron

 

Mirrow

 

:001_huh:

 

You've seen someone write "Chester Draws" more than once??? The mind boggles...I still haven't figured out what "mirrow" means!

 

I'm always annoyed by effect/affect and it's or its' (not even a word!) when what the writer wants is plain old its with no apostrophes at all.

[Word Nerd]

Today I sent an email asking for confirmation that a website address was correct because it looked like some of the URL had been cut off. The person's reply began, "Oh, your write." :tongue_smilie:

[SnowWhite]

A mirrow is a mirror down South.

 

Laura in CA got most of the ones I was hearing in my mind. I am sitting here ROFL and dh is laughing at me.

 

Those "all intensive purposes" really get my "goat" too. And pouring over new hs catalogs. Here! Here! (should be hear! hear!).

[LaissezFaire]

Another one I have seen quite often is sight/site. As in, "I found this on a web sight."

[FO4UR]

My fave is "HSing should not be aloud."

 

 

(Shhh kids...do your math quietly!!!):lol:

[meet me in paris]

Irregardless.

 

 

 

I see that one "alot". ;)

[Denisemomof4]

Someone posted a listing on craigslist last week for an

 

armwa

 

and I groan everytime I read Chester Draws

 

and

 

Rod Iron

 

Mirrow

 

:001_huh:

:scared:

[unsinkable]

I keep seeing "peek" and "peak" mixed up and it drives. me. BONKERS. :glare:

 

Check out this ski resort:

 

Peek'n Peak

 

We also have a bar hear called Cole's. I had a confusing conversation about buying pants at Kolh's to wear to Cole's.

 

Plus, we have funeral homes called Amigone. And Bury's.

 

Really.

[Joker]

I get annoyed when people use there/their/they're wrong. On fb lately I've seen people use I's instead of my/mine. Drives me baddy.:D

[scrappyhappymama]

Someone posted a listing on craigslist last week for an

 

armwa

 

and I groan everytime I read Chester Draws

 

and

 

Rod Iron

 

Mirrow

 

:001_huh:

 

So true!! I've being cruising CL a lot lately for furniture for our new house. I've seen "Chester Drawers" more than once! Dreadful.

 

But today, I saw one that sent me scurrying right back to this thread:

 

"Todler Slay bed" :001_huh: That's just wrong!!

[meet me in paris]

"Todler Slay bed" :001_huh:

 

OMG! :eek:

 

This thread has me laughing so hard... (is that wrong???)

[ThatCyndiGirl]

You've seen someone write "Chester Draws" more than once??? The mind boggles...I still haven't figured out what "mirrow" means!

 

I'm always annoyed by effect/affect and it's or its' (not even a word!) when what the writer wants is plain old its with no apostrophes at all.

 

 

Yes. ChesterDraws seem to be something of an epidemic around here.

 

Whoever posted about the truck that "needs new roaders"......after reading that I can't remember how you really spell that word! :lol:

[Gooblink]

So true!! I've being cruising CL a lot lately for furniture for our new house. I've seen "Chester Drawers" more than once! Dreadful.

 

But today, I saw one that sent me scurrying right back to this thread:

 

"Todler Slay bed" :001_huh: That's just wrong!!

 

:lol::lol::lol: I think that's the best one yet. I mean...it's bad, but...omg.

 

This is one for Jay Leno.

[Gooblink]

I'm appalled by the "Chester Draws" one, too! I mean...rilly?

[Ginevra]

I'm serious. Chester Drawers. Uncle Chester's underwear is for sale...again.

[HappyGrace]

"myriad of" instead of myriad

[Gooblink]

"myriad of" instead of myriad

 

That one always drove me batty, however, it does seem that "myriad of" is acceptable. Still, I choose myriad without the of. :)

 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad

[hsmom3tn]

I'm serious. Chester Drawers. Uncle Chester's underwear is for sale...again.

 

:lol::lol::lol:

[StaceyinLA]

on here it drives me mad when someone says they have something to sale instead of sell.

 

It drives me nuts when people use your where they should use you're, and vice versa.

 

There are probably tons more I could think of if I wasn't trying to think. :tongue_smilie:

[MomsintheGarden]

Plus, we have funeral homes called Amigone. And Bury's.

We have Ender's Funeral Home. Dh grew up here and said "what?" when I laughed at the name.

 

GardenMom

[unsinkable]

We have Ender's Funeral Home. Dh grew up here and said "what?" when I laughed at the name.

 

GardenMom

 

:lol:

[1bassoon]

I see a lot of people who would of, could of, should of, and who are going to loose weight.

 

:iagree: Oh. My. Word.

 

I dug up this thread just so I can say. . . this drives me nuts.

 

Thanks. I feel better.

[Jean in Newcastle]

:iagree: Oh. My. Word.

 

I dug up this thread just so I can say. . . this drives me nuts.

 

Thanks. I feel better.

 

:lol::lol::lol: I did find myself thinking of this post lately. . .

[Ellie]

So true!! I've being cruising CL a lot lately for furniture for our new house. I've seen "Chester Drawers" more than once! Dreadful.

My dh and his family all say "chester drawers," even his very educated cousins. I could pick them out of a crowd with my eyes blindfolded, lol. Truly, Mr. Ellie did not know it was a "chest of drawers" until he met me, bless his heart.

 

"Todler Slay bed" :001_huh: That's just wrong!!

ACK!!!

[Forget-Me-Not]

Someone posted a listing on craigslist last week for an

 

armwa

 

and I groan everytime I read Chester Draws

 

and

 

Rod Iron

 

Mirrow

 

:001_huh:

 

It's Craig's List. It's Mad Gabs. It's both!

 

One I've noticed a lot lately is people saying 'sense' for 'since'.

[nrg]

Altho I no better, I PROLLY have made quiet a few of these airs.

[Gooblink]

Altho I no better, I PROLLY have made quiet a few of these airs.

 

I LOVE using "prolly" and ain't gonna give that one up. :)

 

 

Another one I've seen recently is impute rather than input.

[SnowWhite]

Oh, wow, I just saw another of these. "Nip it in the butt". Sorry, it's supposed to be "nip it in the bud", as in kill the budding weed before it becomes a fully grown plant. I hate to imagine the visual people get when they speak of nipping something in the butt.

[Luckymama]

Thought of another one today: to "pique" your interest, not "peak" nor "peek" your interest.

 

I'm so glad to have found my kind on this thread ;)

[Veritaserum]

Thanks for the great reed. :P

 

Chester drawers. Ha!

[SnowWhite]

I just thought of this thread: I read elsewhere about people having to sensor themselves so they don't offend anyone, and about other people drinking to access. (to access what I wonder?) Censor/sensor- Just imagine, if we had an internal sensor which would transmit a signal to our brains to cause us to censor our words! How much less conflict would we see?

[scrappyhappymama]

Another Craigslist contribution:

 

Someone here locally keeps posting a Weaker Vanity for sale. I could possibly use one of those, but alas, they mean Wicker.

[DarlaS]

I just thought of another thing that is often misspelled or misspoken: "Placenta Preview" :willy_nilly: