Brought vs bought

[Edrof]

Also, 'have' and 'of' gets my goat.

 

[Diddums]

Also, 'have' and 'of' gets my goat.

YES!!!!


How could I have forgotten this one!

EDIT: we need a forum for like minded folks to sit back in and smoke cigars whilst we peer out at the uneducated masses and laugh at their incompetence in the language they use every single day of their lives.

 

[Derek W]

Might just be laziness in speech.

Only one thing to do then, axe them to find out why.

 

[Tefal]

That's because you wrote it so your brain fills in the words' meanings automatically. Readers don't have that luxury and their brains must first interpret your words to unlock your post's meaning. It's far more difficult to find mistakes in your own work than in something written by someone else.

so true I've read something I've wrote over and over and not noticed anything, look at something someone else has written and typos are glaringly obvious.

 

[Edrof]

so true I've read something I've wrote over and over and not noticed anything, look at something someone else has written and typos are glaringly obvious.

It really is. It's especially so if you've omitted a word as your brain often fills in the blank space. It's the main reason why writers use proofreaders.

 

[Andelusion]

My GF and her entire family do it, I think it's a regional thing, they're from Mansfield.

 

[Richdog]

I could care less.

This one never ceases to amaze me, and I see it so often nowadays.

 

[McGray]

People are just idiots.

I also regularly see confusion with 'lose' and 'loose' on these forums.

Stupid, stupid everywhere.

 

[Andelusion]

Has anyone else noticed a lot of people also type 'iam' when they mean to type 'I am', so many people do this Shirley it can't be intentional?

 

[Derek W]

Has anyone else noticed a lot of people also type 'iam' when they mean to type 'I am', so many people do this Shirley it can't be intentional?

Ask yourself though weather that bothers you or not.

 

[Kenai]

Increasingly noticing on here people using been in the present tense and being as past tense. Absolutely baffles me

 

[Amleto]

There's someone at my work that insists on saying "everythink"

 

[Andelusion]

Ask yourself though weather that bothers you or not.

To be honest it does, even though it's quite a pacific detail.

 

[Kiyoshi]

Ask yourself though weather that bothers you or not.

Axe*

 

[Tefal]

Has anyone else noticed a lot of people also type 'iam' when they mean to type 'I am', so many people do this Shirley it can't be intentional?

auto correct doesn't change it

 

[TommyV]

Nope, just a lot of idiots around.

This

 

[DXP55]

It dose wind me up when people can't spel a for letter word.

This forum isn't so bad but one I used to visit, dose came up in nearly every post.

I left scool in 1959 and it was a factory fodder school so I do make mistakes.

 

[boxman2000]

There their, I'm just glad you bought this to my attention. That'll be £5 please.

Don't get me started on how stupid some people can be with their grammar. The sheer number of grammatical and spelling errors in CV's that hit my desk regularly is simply astounding - into the bin they go!

 

[Noxia]

I hate it when I loose an argument on grammar and spelling.

 

[hughtrimble]

I saw what he did there

You mean 'did their'