What is it with certain words?

[ElliorR]

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

 

[Kosmiche]

ooo it does naughty words and my volume was quite unknowingly high haha

 

[Tachyon]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=drawer&submit=Submit

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=draw&submit=Submit

they are identical

Lol, he doesn't say those the same.

 

[Kosmiche]

its more like drawrrr than draw?

meh

its barely a accountable difference

 

[Surveyor]

The lady parts was a joke.

If you say so

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.

And perhaps other people make mistakes when typing in a rush, something you seem keen to pick them up on.

There's nothing worse than being so pedantic you have to rake through my posts to pick out a fault.

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.

The only thing worse than someone who makes these mistakes is a pedant! Which you are well known for.

Sigh.

 

[Pestilence]

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.

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.

 

[Tachyon]

its more like drawrrr than draw?

meh

its barely a accountable difference

Yea, I would say it maybe more like you've spelt it there as when he says in furniture.

 

[Kosmiche]

I say em the same "time to draw" "put that in a draw" no change

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I don't make these ridiculous mistakes.

You reckon?

There just jealous haha.

Ooops, I didn't see the above posts which some had already picked up on.

 

[scorza]

effect or affect
set up or setup
fewer or less

How can people not know the correct usage of the above words?

 

[Irish_Tom]

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.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I failed GCSE English and even I know this stuff lol.

 

[Scougar]

I screw up words on a quickly typed forum post ALLLLL the time.. most of the time the post makes sense, and life continues.

 

[Spenty]

Haha! Top draw sir!

Every1s loud an of day

Off*

 

[DB_SamX]

Another one annoying is writing "Here here!" instead of "Hear hear!". Do not they not think before writing?

 

[asim18]

Breath/breathe
Quiet/Quite
Que/Queue

 

[Efour]

loose/lose

my utter favorite

 

[dirtychinchilla]

In the south, draw and drawer are pronounced in exactly the same way.

 

[kitch9]

Defiantly - definitely.

That's a common one.

 

[Buchanan0204]

If you say so

Why don't you pop over to Urban Dictonary and type the word in. It was quite clearly a joke. Like I said... something you clearly know nothing about!