What is it with certain words?

[Devrij]

Unnescessary apostrophes! I recently booked an ad for someone and saw that the copy headline was " FITTER'S and SETTER'S needed!". I didn't correct it to teach them a lesson.

 

[div0]

People who spell 'receive' as 'recieve'. Definitely and defiantly is also annoying... how the hell can you get it wrong?

The only thing I can think there is that they are spelling 'definitely' as 'definately' and auto-correct changes it to 'defiantly'.

Surely no-one would actually write 'defiantly', when they mean 'definitely'.

 

[Feek]

Unnescessary apostrophes! I recently booked an ad for someone and saw that the copy headline was " FITTER'S and SETTER'S needed!". I didn't correct it to teach them a lesson.

What lesson do you think it will teach them? They didn't know it was wrong, they still don't know it was wrong. They've not learned anything. If you'd corrected it and advised them, they'd have learned a lesson.

alternate version
What lesson will it learn them? Dey didnt now their was sumfink wrong wiv it, they still dunno its wrong. Deyve not learned anyfink. If youd corrected it and adviced em, deyd have learnt sumfink.

 

[Morba]

Arksed - as in "I arksed him for a fag, innit".

Boils my blood.

What the?
I have never heard this one myself, what level of scum do you talk to to hear that being said?

 

[shoes]

Why are there certain words people get completely wrong and replace it with a word that sounds nothing like it.

My sig is the perfect example. I mean, who would actually say the word "brought" in everyday life.

Another one is "it's been sitting in a draw." Come on man! A drawer!! Not an equal score at the end of a game.

While I'm not an English professor, far from it. I don't make these ridiculous mistakes.

Any other ones you see on the forums a lot? Those two are the main culprits that I've seen.

If you do any of the above, own up and explain yourself?

So much fail in a single post.

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[Gee]

Sandwich/Sangwich.

Fuuuuuu!

 

[Pestilence]

Sandwich/Sangwich.

Fuuuuuu!

Sammich is, however, acceptable.

 

[markweatherill]

Arksed - as in "I arksed him for a fag, innit".

Boils my blood.

Actually in olden times it may well have been pronounced like that even though it sounds more like a modern innovation. Or so I read somewhere.

Me, I hate people's constant use of 'like' as some kind of filler word. Once I heard someone nesting 'like's if you know what I mean. And if they use the teenage girl type of accent that is worse.

And this phrase; in takeaways and shops, when someone says 'Can I have....' is bad enough, I mean of course you can have it, what did you think. But listening to someone say 'can I have a 6" chicken sub and can I have tomatoes and can I have lettuce, and can I have cucumber... yeah can I have mayonnaise...' worse if they even slightly adopt that chavvy wheedling tone.

 

[Resident]

People who use bad grammar deserve a blow to the head for each instance. There isn't a single reason for it.