What is it with certain words?

Advice and advise which happens often on these very forums.

Affect and effect annoy me.

To and too. Though sometimes I wrack my brain to work out when too is required :D
 
Buchanan0204 said:
The lady parts was a joke.
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If you say so ;)

Buchanan0204 said:
To confirm I'm well aware of the differences of they're, there and their.

Their = Belonging to someone or something.
They're = They are
There = Any other time.

I do of course make the odd mistakes when typing in a rush.
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And perhaps other people make mistakes when typing in a rush, something you seem keen to pick them up on.


Buchanan0204 said:
There's nothing worse than being so pedantic you have to rake through my posts to pick out a fault.
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You start a thread about these things and don't expect to be picked up on your own mistakes?

I thought it was well worth 5 minutes of my time.


Buchanan0204 said:
The only thing worse than someone who makes these mistakes is a pedant! Which you are well known for.
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Sigh.
 
Eames said:
But DRAW is pronounced same as DRAWER so it sounds EXACTLY like it.

So unless you're talking about spelling online, when you appear to be talking about pronunciation I have no idea what you're on about.

Ok further inspection you're on about spelling and swapping words that appear similar.

I get your bought/brought problem but the draw/drawer thing is a bit perplexing as you do realise those words sound identical when spoken.
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That depends entirely on your accent, really.

Most regional English accents (save, perhaps, Yorkshire) utilise unpronounced or "soft" Rs when they come late in a word. Hence words like "Draw"/"Drawer" and "Farther"/"Father" sound phonetically identical.

I'm from Northern Ireland, and our accents almost entirely utilise "hard" Rs, so each of those words sound entirely different when spoken. Perhaps that's the reason that I'd never encountered people referring to drawers as "draws" and actually writing "farther" instead of "father" until I moved to England.
 
effect or affect
set up or setup
fewer or less

How can people not know the correct usage of the above words?
 
Brought and bought is one of my bugbears.

If you say brought instead of bought, you sound like an idiot.

If you type brought instead of bought, you're just making more work for yourself by typing an extra, unnecessary character.
 
I screw up words on a quickly typed forum post ALLLLL the time.. most of the time the post makes sense, and life continues.
 
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