Irrational spelling mistake hatred thread.

[Remmie]

Another vote for 'nite'. In fact any text speak - honourable mentions to 'ur welcum' and anything with an 8 (gr8, l8r). Even worse are text words with the same amount of letters, but spelt incorrectly (e.g. 'cuz'. What's wrong with 'cos'?). When I was lecturing, I'd regularly be given whole assignments written in text speak.

 

I'm also an horrendous apostrophe Nazi.

Surely it 'a horrendous' instead of 'an horrendous' because the H isn't silent.

 

As for the assignments in text speak I hope you failed those assignments or gave them low marks.

[madstock]

Instead of:

 

"Oh, I'm terribly sorry - I didnt mean to upset and/or anger you, and promise never to do it again."

 

"Meh".

 

Bastardos.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

Surely it 'a horrendous' instead of 'an horrendous' because the H isn't silent.

 

As for the assignments in text speak I hope you failed those assignments or gave them low marks.

 

In fact Remmie, I think that the H should be silent, it should be pronounced 'Orrendous..therefore SKI was correct and 'an horrendous' is the right option.

[RedinSweden]

In fact Remmie, I think that the H should be silent, it should be pronounced 'Orrendous..therefore SKI was correct and 'an horrendous' is the right option.

 

That is not right I'm afraid due to the venacular being a pronounced "h". The one you can argue this for perhaps is Hotel, but you are on shaky ground with that one even. I doubt that anyone says 'orrendous.

[madstock]

I doubt that anyone says 'orrendous.

 

 

"Oi beg to diffur, oi do"

[RedinSweden]

 

"Oi beg to diffur, oi do"

 

David Moyes "'orrible 'obbitses"

[Karl_b]

That is not right I'm afraid due to the venacular being a pronounced "h". The one you can argue this for perhaps is Hotel, but you are on shaky ground with that one even. I doubt that anyone says 'orrendous.

 

I don't pronounce any H's at the beginning of words.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

That is not right I'm afraid due to the venacular being a pronounced "h". The one you can argue this for perhaps is Hotel, but you are on shaky ground with that one even. I doubt that anyone says 'orrendous.

 

I do RiS to be fair. I'd say I've had an (h)orrendous day rather than I've had A 'H'orrendous day.

[rb14]

I'm having an horrendous day (sorry RiS, I'm with Fat Lez (turncoat cockennie fattage). Billy no mates and señor Paddy on this one.). One of the reasons it's been so bad is that someone offered me methylenedioxymetamphetamine. Everyone knows it's methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Another dreadful example of text speak finding its way into everyday conversation. Grrrrr.

[She Knows It]

You're all right. If you drop your H in pronunciation (as I do) you'd use 'an'. If you pronounce H, you'd use 'a'. Both are correct.

 

Remmie, funnily enough an ex-colleague of mine phoned me not so long ago. They were having a clear out of the archives, and she said she'd had to ring because they'd all been pissing themselves laughing at the comments I'd written on the assignment covers. These ranged from "plz redo no txtspk" to "WTF????" scrawled in big red letters across the front.

 

I wouldn't even mark them, never mind fail them.

[Uncle_Meat]

Anyone who intentionally uses a Z in place of an S in order to make them appear hip, dope and down wit' the kids, Yo!

 

Also, don't get me started on KP Discos crisp packets as well. Cheese 'n' Onion Flava. FLAVA? Fucks sake.

 

Flaming death is too good for them.

[bobhorse]

Dont ask me they all look ok

[Guest Eskimo-Boy]

u'z bois r al muppitz

[MLB]

It's the fucking easy ones that get on my tits. It's "definitely", not "definately". Oh, and it's a "moot point", not a "mute point" (I've actually heard newsreaders say this recently. Fuckwits!)

[kelster]

I can't spell sasauge (sausage apparently).

[Paul]

I don't mind spelling mistakes per se, as anyone can make a typo - and besides, the English language is so irregular that the only way to be a truly great speller is have a huge memory. What does irritate me, though, is the willful/lazy abuse of the language; that, and the "it's not important" attitude to ignorance of the rules of the language. If someone can't see that communication is at the very heart of what makes us the social creatures that we are and, by logical extension, precision and clarity are therefore essential for human interaction, then I simply despair.

[Hand Shandy]

What Paul said...

[The Chief]

Is herb or 'erb? Herb or 'erbal? (Pronunciation wise that is)......

 

....,,.,.,.:::;;;;.,.,.,.,.,;;.;.

 

Sorry, just felt like adding some dots and stuff. Some random punctuation.

 

Not so much spelling as pronouncing the word Herbal, why, when someone is having Herbal tea does it get pronounced, by every cunt who i've ever heard say it, 'erbal tea? That really twists my knackers.

Also RR, i'm with you on the realising a mistake thing as well, pisses me off when i realize i've done it. (i put the 'z' in realise just to piss the people who don't like it off.)

[ted tucker]

1. hankerchief handkerchief

 

2. government goverment

 

3. mischevous mischievous

 

4. viscious vicious

 

5. posession possession

 

6. renowned renouned

 

7. gratefull grateful

 

8. perseverance perseverence

 

9. desperate desparate

 

10. instructor instructer

 

11. tongue tounge

 

12. pleasant pleasent

 

13. occasion ocassion

 

14. judgemant judgment

 

15. irascable irascible

 

16. raspberry rasberry

 

17. indispensible indispensable

 

18. mediocore mediocre

 

19. tyranny tyraney

 

20. relevant relavent

 

21. pistachio pistacchio

 

22. religious religous

 

23. incredible incredable

 

24. ignorence ignorance

 

25. aquit acquit

 

26. sandle sandal

 

27. misspell mispell

 

28. experience experiance

 

29. physicle physical

 

30. accumulate accumilate

 

31. exercise excersise

 

32. corduroy corderoy

 

33. misoginy misogyny

 

34. separately seperatally

 

35. septuagenarian septagenarian

 

36. mischief mischiff

 

37. genarally generally

 

38. coliseum colliseum

 

39. acomplish accomplish

 

40. octopuss octopus

 

41. referance reference

 

42. brocolli broccoli

 

43. excellent excellant

 

44. harrass harass

 

45. humorous humourus

 

46. liaison liason

 

47. defient defiant

 

48. irritable irritible

 

49. incidently incidentally

 

50. promenant prominent