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Spelling errors that drive you nuts!

#41
Not spelling but...

At my day job I call 911 dispatch about 50 times per day. It irritates me to no end when some dispatched says "premise". Premise is not the singular of "premises". A premise is an idea, a premises is a location durn it. Many small town dispatchers get mad when you correct them on this grammatical error, but I just can't stop myself.
 
#46
vindy500 said:
ha Americans crack me up when the say aloominum (spelt to reflect how you pronounce it) its like they think its a toilet or something
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Yes, we're so unintelligent spelling and pronouncing things the way everyone around us does. We should just pronounce it the British way, so we're "correct", and ignore what is actually correct in our country.

But seriously, this gets brought up in every thread about misspelling words, and threads about misspelling words come up quite often. Can no one accept that different countries spell words differently? Spanish is spoken differently in Spain than in it is Mexico and the US (they use completely different words usually instead of just spelling it differently), and I would bet that the same can be said for almost all languages that are spoken in multiple places, especially across the world like the UK and the US, or Spain and Mexico.

P.S. lawlz u 'spelt' spelled rong..... :rolleyes:

P.S. again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences for further reading about this subject.
 
#51
Spector_Ray said:
Ok colour and color. That's not an issue we're talking about. What we're talking about is mispelling a word like indicences for incidents or warrenty for warranty. There are no such words as warrenty or incidences.

and btw, wikipedia isn't the gospel.
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Uhhh. Try reading the post I quoted. I was talking about aluminum vs aluminium (and therefore different spellings based on country, such as color and colour), not about misspelled words. I was in fact responding to the post I quoted. And I was giving him further reading on the subject for some basic differences. I didn't get the info from there or anything, I got it from my brain, which holds common knowledge on the subject, like everyone's should. :scowl:

And for the normal topic, another word people misspell all the time, is ironically, misspell. Two Ss, guys, not one. ;)
 
#53
Mole said:
Uhhh. Try reading the post I quoted. I was talking about aluminum vs aluminium (and therefore different spellings based on country, such as color and colour), not about misspelled words. I was in fact responding to the post I quoted. And I was giving him further reading on the subject for some basic differences. I didn't get the info from there or anything, I got it from my brain, which holds common knowledge on the subject, like everyone's should. :scowl:

And for the normal topic, another word people misspell all the time, is ironically, misspell. Two Ss, guys, not one. ;)
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I was replying to the nature of the original post. It was about misspelled words and not about different spelllings based on geography or languages. There are some words that have definite spellings such as Precision instead of percision and Camaro and not Camero as in the original post. My point about wikipedia wasn't directed at you, but people in general who seem to use it as a replacement to their library's reference section. :cool:
 
#55
Spector_Ray said:
I was replying to the nature of the original post. It was about misspelled words and not about different spelllings based on geography or languages. There are some words that have definite spellings such as Precision instead of percision and Camaro and not Camero as in the original post. My point about wikipedia wasn't directed at you, but people in general who seem to use it as a replacement to their library's reference section. :cool:
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Yeah, I was just making fun of vindy for counting aluminum as a misspelled word.
 
#56
"Definately" is definitely one of mine. I dislike intensely the use of "phenomena" as the singular (phenomenon is singular). I also detest gratuitous quotation marks (like "No Parking"). Misplaced apostrophes also really blow in my gestalt, for example, "My family owns three Volvo's." One of my most hated is the use of an apostrophe in the possessive "its." The apostrophe goes there only when "it" is used in a contraction, e.g. "It's about time we put everything in its place."
 

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