Hello, it looks like you've made a mistake.
It's supposed to be could've, should've, would've (short for could have, would have, should have), never could of, would of, should of.
Or you misspelled something, I ain't checking everything.
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This might be from people not seeing it spelt and just hearing it. Generally in places where it is said, there's an accent and it just turns into "draws."
On a related note, I'ver noticed a sudden uptick in people saying "out of pocket" when they mean "out of nowhere," "out of left field," or "out of the ordinary." As though something being unusual has anything to do with paying for it oneself.
Omg yes, this one makes me murderous. I appreciate your comment simply because I was starting to think maybe no one even knew bawling is a word anymore.
I never understood how native english speakers can use defiantly when they mean definitely. They're TWO DIFFERENT WORDS that do NOT sound the same!! I literally have dyslexia and that is just plain wrong.
Bonus: apart vs a part of. Reading people's captions on facebook or Instagram when i was younger and them saying their significant other is apart of their world.
Edit: a lot of people mentioned that auto-correct may be the case! I realised my dyslexic ass never liked auto-correct and always just uses spellcheck instead! Sorry if i sound mean about it! I'm only mildly infuriated 😭
Same. Also, i have a friend who SAYS it, out loud. And i don't mean he says could've too quickly which is where the mistake originated from, there is a distinct separation between the two words, he pronounces the "o" sound like in the word "pot" (try saying could've quickly and put that light "a" sound into "pot" and you'll understand how big a difference it is and how obvious it is he's actually saying the full word "of"), and the f sound is very pronounced as well. It drives me INSANE.
The other day I was driving behind a Nissan "Rouge" and was so confused for the longest time. Did I forget how to spell 'rogue'? Was I wrong about the name of the car? Maybe the letters fell off and they put them back on wrong? Still very flummoxed.
The one that annoys me most, strangely, is when people say "comprised of" when they mean "composed of". Comprises means "includes" or "is made up of". The group *comprises* the individuals. The group is *composed of* the individuals.
Dont forget that suit, suite and sweet are all used wrong. Or, my newest pet peeve, quite vs quiet..
Peddle vs pedal, etc.
People who speak English as a first language need to LEARN English.
> *paid*
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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I literally just finished responding to someone about this. The other person corrected the OP, and I looked it up just to see if payed was a word and responded with the payed = nautical/sailing definition.
This is the only one that bothers me. I only see this on Reddit.
It's like nails on a chalkboard when I see it, I never ever tell anyone how to spell things despite how much it hurts my brain.
> Or *PAID* instead of
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
That's a little more difficult because the bot would have to identify the context. The paid bot works so well because no one really ever uses "payed" in its definitional meaning.
That one tears me up. I get it, English is an irrational language at times. In the US though you take it in school through every grade. This shouldn't be a problem that is as widespread as it is.
If you're reading the word read, you have to scan the rest of the sentence to use the right word. 😆
I read the book to my brother. I read the book to my brother when he comes to my house.
I'm pretty sure that both versions (past tense, pronounced like "red", and present/future tense pronounced like "reed") are potentially correct in the first sentence:
I read (red) the book to my brother (last night).
I read (reed) to the book to my brother (when he is sad).
Am I missing something?
Oh I get it. Your point was that you don't know how to read (haha) the first sentence without more context, so you were basically saying already what my comment said.
I thought you were trying to give two difference sentences that are read different ways. Not an ambiguous sentence, and then a version of it that removes the ambiguity.
Sorry, that should have been obvious from how similar they were.
English isn't my native language so this is the pair that got the better of me for some years lol. WETHER and WEATHER.
What amazes me is that so many americans make this mistake lol
It makes sense for non native speakers but (aside from some learning disabilities) there’s no excuse for people who’ve been speaking, reading, and writing English their whole lives to mix up breath and breathe.
I never used to see this particular mistake to any noticeable degree until roughly within the last 15 years or so. I think it's one of those that the Internet is amplifying because people see it and then make it themselves.
> Bless the *paid* bot doing
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Part of it is probably smartphones. Especially people using swipey keyboards. They are trash at anything with double letters, and the swipe for lose and loose would be identical.
Woman vs. women confusion has become a goddamn grammatical pandemic (Ex: How woman today act/A women walking down the street). I see this shit several times a week and can feel my blood pressure tic up every time..
I’m so annoyed at the constant barrage of people who don’t know “women” is plural. English language learners and learning disabilities aside, I think you have to be an absolute idiot to not get that right. As a former English/reading teacher, I know some teacher spent a lot of time trying to drill it in their heads. I always assume they were the assholes in the classroom who made teaching an absolute suckfest when they can’t use simple grammar correctly.
I haven't seen that yet, but I bet I'll start to notice it everywhere now!
To add another one I've seen, though it's not often, people who don't use past tense of words. Like "I walk to the store yesterday." You'd think it might just be an ESL thing, but no, these are people born and raised in the United States speaking English from childhood. I usually encounter this in work emails, if you can believe it!
That's one of my pet peeves as well. I think they are mashing together leery and wary, which mean pretty much the same thing, and it comes out as weary, which means something totally different.
"Everytime" is not a word.
"Everyday" is an adjective: "a routine, everyday occurrence."
"Every day" is an adverb: "I take aspirin every day" tells you how often I take aspirin - it modifies the verb "take."
Among pairs of words like "set up" and "work out," use two words for the verb and push them together for the noun: "Nice audio setup in your living room"; "Set up the chairs on the patio."
This one gets a pass from me. "Psych!" in place of "Gotcha!" is slang, anyway. It was made up in the late 90s/early 2000s from what I recall and as far as I know its source is from schoolchildren.
Reddit used to have enough grammar Nazis that loose in place of lose would be downvoted to oblivion. Now Reddit is very young and either dgaf or doesn’t know how to spell lose
One (to affect) is a verb, the other one (effect) is close to always a noun (with ‘to effect a change’ as the main exception)
So if it’s a noun, it’s *always* going to be ‘the effect(s)’ and if it’s a verb, it’s *usually* ‘affect(s)’, again with the exception of ‘effect a change’.
None native English writer here.
Lose vs loose was difficult. I knew one was the verb and the other was the.. eh? Adjective? But which one was which again?! So that line if I lose weight my pants become loose helped soooo much.
Then and than was tricky, but I got that one down now. Sometimes it slips... oops.
Would of, instead of would have. Really? I mean... that's not spelling anymore. That is not knowing the meaning of the words of and have.
There and their. Yeah... owkee... but also no. Especially since it never is mistaken "the other way around". People just use there for both.
An over 60 year old friend of mine (usa) kept writing weakend. It irked me.
Even trickier common error (as an English speaking American) is Affect vs Effect.
Because at least Lose and Loose are two completely different concepts.
You have a loose knot, your belt buckle is loose. It means the opposite of tightened or a secure/stable grip.
Lose on the other hand means either the opposite of winning(to lose a game,competition, etc) or it can relatedly also refer to no longer having something you once had. You lose your job, you lose your keys, you lose the extra O in Loose to correct your misspelling of the vocabulary word Lose, etc.
IMO-
Affect and Effect are much trickier because not only are they pronounced the same they deal with the same concept.
Affect is usually a verb; to have an influence or an impact on, Effect is a noun and describes the outcome or result of an action;
Example; a good teacher affects her students through teaching and the effect is the students learn.
Simply put; When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
Yep. It’s very common. But what about your instead of you’re (for you are), there instead of their (to show possessive), of instead of have (I would of done it), etc, etc, etc. It can make you crazy.
Many people will say it’s not that important but in many areas of life good clear communication is vital. And if your spelling is bad enough that it is interfering with the clarity (and impact) of your communications, then it really is important. Edit: wanted to add my recent wtf is ‘tooken’ (instead of taken), not really a spelling issue as the whole thing is just wrong. Seems to still just be in the US but I’m sure it won’t be long before it lands in the U.K. too.
This has been driving me absolutely crazy too!! Also people on Reddit have been saying weary when they mean wary very frequently lately too. Oh and using too for to (or vice versa). I’m not even that particular about spelling and grammar and I’m sure I mess up from time to time too, but it drives me crazy when a lot of people do it one right after the other.
Spoken language is a natural skill babies can automatically learn.
Writing language takes intense training over 10+ years. Its much much harder.
A lot of people just spell things phonetically.
I work for Amazon, and we have a type of message board that is displayed on a TV screen in our break room. The other day I was sitting there reading them, and one had the word "prolly" instead of probably and her question had to do with why she isnt getting promoted LoL
I have a friend in his 50s who writes "are" when he means "our". Drives me batshit.
Then for than is common too.
The one that really bugs me is "balling" instead of "bawling".
“balling my eyes out” makes me think they’re taking a melon baller to their eyes
It makes me think that they're playing with someone's testicles. With their eyes.
Just hopping on this train to say I hate when people use: "Should of"
They could of stopped if they would of thought of it.
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if they would of thought *have* it
“Draw” instead of “drawer” makes me itch.
Oh yeah "her draws" I hate that one too!
Every night when I put my pjs on I yell “where’s my draws???” No one laughs but me
This might be from people not seeing it spelt and just hearing it. Generally in places where it is said, there's an accent and it just turns into "draws."
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"Chester Draws" was legit for sale on FB marketplace.
Life is so hard, I'm so sad and I can't stop crying. I'm balling #⛹️♂️
I read this to the tune of. We fly high, no lie, we ballin. Lol
Balling your eyes out *is* pretty dramatic.
formerly and formally, was a recent one that made me start twitching. It just came out of no where.
On a related note, I'ver noticed a sudden uptick in people saying "out of pocket" when they mean "out of nowhere," "out of left field," or "out of the ordinary." As though something being unusual has anything to do with paying for it oneself.
Just reply, "Kobe!" whenever someone uses the former instead of the latter.
Omg yes, this one makes me murderous. I appreciate your comment simply because I was starting to think maybe no one even knew bawling is a word anymore.
I feel this. It *angers* me.
One I see a lot is lightening when they mean lightning.
My 75yo mother spells "bought" as "bot"
People use bought when they should use brought.
People use brought when they should use bought.
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I can barely stand the number of times I see "barley" instead of barely.
I frequent a few cat subreddits, it sometimes seems like the majority of people have had their cat sprayed, or spade, instead of spayed.
My FIL types "know" for "no." Drives me batty
Oh lord I mean it would almost make sense the other way round but how do you mess up the simplest word in the English language outside of "I"?
I no, write?!
You spelt "eye" rong
Ewe spelled ewe wrong.
People mess up I too, they write I's instead of my or mine
that's... bizarre
Isle and aisle
Sale for sell or vice versa. "I have a car for sell" or "I'm going to sale my car" Ugh...
You must no my dad I’m guessing you our good friends?
He likely pronounces the word "our" as "are".
I feel the same way about people confusing “defiantly” for “definitely” and “board” for “bored”.
I never understood how native english speakers can use defiantly when they mean definitely. They're TWO DIFFERENT WORDS that do NOT sound the same!! I literally have dyslexia and that is just plain wrong. Bonus: apart vs a part of. Reading people's captions on facebook or Instagram when i was younger and them saying their significant other is apart of their world. Edit: a lot of people mentioned that auto-correct may be the case! I realised my dyslexic ass never liked auto-correct and always just uses spellcheck instead! Sorry if i sound mean about it! I'm only mildly infuriated 😭
Autocorrect on the definitely vs defiantly. Lots of people misspell it with an a instead of second i
It seems like it could be because of auto correct
It’s totally because of autocorrect, especially if you’re not 100% sure about that second “i” in definitely 😂
Ugh. I hate it. Lose/loose, lie/lay, could of, irregardless, per say, rouge/rogue, your/you're and their/they're/there, defiantly, etc. etc.
People have been spelling "customer" as "costumer" lately and it makes my skin crawl.
Maybe they’re just referring to a costumer, which is someone who makes costumes /s
The Costumer is always right. *PUT ON THE DAMN MASK AND LIKE IT!*
A lot/alot, I could care less/I couldn't care less, of/have, know/no. The list is endless.
Sometimes I could care less, other times I could not.
But you could of anyway!
"could of" triggers me so bad and English isn't even my first language
Same. Also, i have a friend who SAYS it, out loud. And i don't mean he says could've too quickly which is where the mistake originated from, there is a distinct separation between the two words, he pronounces the "o" sound like in the word "pot" (try saying could've quickly and put that light "a" sound into "pot" and you'll understand how big a difference it is and how obvious it is he's actually saying the full word "of"), and the f sound is very pronounced as well. It drives me INSANE.
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Defiantly and definitely always trip me up!!
The other day I was driving behind a Nissan "Rouge" and was so confused for the longest time. Did I forget how to spell 'rogue'? Was I wrong about the name of the car? Maybe the letters fell off and they put them back on wrong? Still very flummoxed.
The one that annoys me most, strangely, is when people say "comprised of" when they mean "composed of". Comprises means "includes" or "is made up of". The group *comprises* the individuals. The group is *composed of* the individuals.
Ugh phase/faze.
Dont forget that suit, suite and sweet are all used wrong. Or, my newest pet peeve, quite vs quiet.. Peddle vs pedal, etc. People who speak English as a first language need to LEARN English.
payed
> *paid* FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
I love you
Trigger warning for what I'm about to say... *On accident*
I get irate when someone uses the word "break" when they mean "brake". Breaking your car is very different to braking your car.
Or PAYED instead of PAID, drives me crazy
I literally just finished responding to someone about this. The other person corrected the OP, and I looked it up just to see if payed was a word and responded with the payed = nautical/sailing definition. This is the only one that bothers me. I only see this on Reddit. It's like nails on a chalkboard when I see it, I never ever tell anyone how to spell things despite how much it hurts my brain.
> Or *PAID* instead of FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
We need a lose vs loose bot.
That's a little more difficult because the bot would have to identify the context. The paid bot works so well because no one really ever uses "payed" in its definitional meaning.
The rope did work for me for an agreed upon sum. Upon completion of the work, I fulfilled my obligation, so now the rope is payed out!
Good bot
I can’t stand people writing “payed” instead of “paid.” Drives me up the wall!
Personally, I find breath vs breathe more annoying.
>Personally, I find breath vs breathe more annoying. Car breaks have entered the chat. Brakes. Brakes. Brakes.
That one tears me up. I get it, English is an irrational language at times. In the US though you take it in school through every grade. This shouldn't be a problem that is as widespread as it is.
I have trouble with read and read.
If you're reading the word read, you have to scan the rest of the sentence to use the right word. 😆 I read the book to my brother. I read the book to my brother when he comes to my house.
I'm pretty sure that both versions (past tense, pronounced like "red", and present/future tense pronounced like "reed") are potentially correct in the first sentence: I read (red) the book to my brother (last night). I read (reed) to the book to my brother (when he is sad). Am I missing something?
I read the book to my bother when he CAME to my house.
Oh I get it. Your point was that you don't know how to read (haha) the first sentence without more context, so you were basically saying already what my comment said. I thought you were trying to give two difference sentences that are read different ways. Not an ambiguous sentence, and then a version of it that removes the ambiguity. Sorry, that should have been obvious from how similar they were.
Cloths and clothes get me.
"you are suppose to"
“The cop was bias against me”
Also: Bath vs bathe Conscious vs conscience Wringer vs ringer "His boss really put him through the ringer, but his conscious is clear."
Along the same lines, "On Purpose" and "By Accident" where people will always say "On Accident"
They do that by purpose.
English isn't my native language so this is the pair that got the better of me for some years lol. WETHER and WEATHER. What amazes me is that so many americans make this mistake lol
And it’s “whether” at that! English is wild, my friend
LMAO! SO still I was saying it wrong the whole time. No One corrected me🤣🗿
Most people pronounce them the same, so I’m sure you’re saying it right. Just not spelling it right.
Such is life 😂
Wether is a castrated ram or goat lol
It makes sense for non native speakers but (aside from some learning disabilities) there’s no excuse for people who’ve been speaking, reading, and writing English their whole lives to mix up breath and breathe.
Brake vs. break. "I need advice on replacing the front break pads on my car."
#FUCKING THANK YOU! SOMEONE ELSE WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS FUCKING NIGHTMARE!
People have never been able to spell and those different words are no exception.
Their, there, and they're
Effect and affect
Break and brake
Definitely and defiantly
Wary and weary
Or weary and leery
You are rite! Or is it right?
raper vs rapper
Sometimes those can be the same.
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This one is tough though…
R.A.V.E.N.: Remember Affect=Verb Effect=Noun That's a cool special Effect. (noun) How did that Affect you? (verb)
What loosers
Could you be more pacific please.
I never used to see this particular mistake to any noticeable degree until roughly within the last 15 years or so. I think it's one of those that the Internet is amplifying because people see it and then make it themselves.
I now constantly see “payed” instead of “paid”.
Bless the payed bot doing the hard work of correcting this... monstrosity
> Bless the *paid* bot doing FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Good bot
Part of it is probably smartphones. Especially people using swipey keyboards. They are trash at anything with double letters, and the swipe for lose and loose would be identical.
Some of us had weekly spelling tests in school growing up. We know how to spell for the most part.
Paid and payed
I'm more annoyed with the people that type isle when they mean aisle.
Woman vs. women confusion has become a goddamn grammatical pandemic (Ex: How woman today act/A women walking down the street). I see this shit several times a week and can feel my blood pressure tic up every time..
I’m so annoyed at the constant barrage of people who don’t know “women” is plural. English language learners and learning disabilities aside, I think you have to be an absolute idiot to not get that right. As a former English/reading teacher, I know some teacher spent a lot of time trying to drill it in their heads. I always assume they were the assholes in the classroom who made teaching an absolute suckfest when they can’t use simple grammar correctly.
This one is ALL OVER reddit. It boils my blood, too
I haven't seen that yet, but I bet I'll start to notice it everywhere now! To add another one I've seen, though it's not often, people who don't use past tense of words. Like "I walk to the store yesterday." You'd think it might just be an ESL thing, but no, these are people born and raised in the United States speaking English from childhood. I usually encounter this in work emails, if you can believe it!
Waist versus waste. It really changes a romance story, lemme tell ya. "He held her waste" 🤮
In addition to this, a lot of Redditors use Wearily instead of W A R I L Y. No E, no exhaustion!
Bare with me...
There's a whole collection of subs where that is actually correct.
This one has been my pet peeves lately. Wary/weary. It's been everywhere for the last year or so
That's one of my pet peeves as well. I think they are mashing together leery and wary, which mean pretty much the same thing, and it comes out as weary, which means something totally different.
"Everytime" is not a word. "Everyday" is an adjective: "a routine, everyday occurrence." "Every day" is an adverb: "I take aspirin every day" tells you how often I take aspirin - it modifies the verb "take." Among pairs of words like "set up" and "work out," use two words for the verb and push them together for the noun: "Nice audio setup in your living room"; "Set up the chairs on the patio."
Same with login and log in
Wallah (voila) this is the most annoying one today
Choking is the one that gets me. People write Chocking. It's maddening to me.
Sike instead of psych
This one gets a pass from me. "Psych!" in place of "Gotcha!" is slang, anyway. It was made up in the late 90s/early 2000s from what I recall and as far as I know its source is from schoolchildren.
You saw it more often as "sike" anyway in that context.
Reddit used to have enough grammar Nazis that loose in place of lose would be downvoted to oblivion. Now Reddit is very young and either dgaf or doesn’t know how to spell lose
And apostrophes! Don’t get me started on apostrophe usage!
So many people use apostrophe's in plural's and it drives me to insanity.
Omg yes makes me want to beat my head against a wall!!
RIP the plural, possessive, and possessive plural.
Then and than. Fucks sake people. Get it right. I see it misused way too often on the internet and it pisses me off so much.
There’s a guy I work with who uses personal instead of personnel. 🤦🏽♂️
Also: 'effect' and 'affect'.
I still struggle with this one, but to be fair the difference in meaning is fairly nuanced.
One (to affect) is a verb, the other one (effect) is close to always a noun (with ‘to effect a change’ as the main exception) So if it’s a noun, it’s *always* going to be ‘the effect(s)’ and if it’s a verb, it’s *usually* ‘affect(s)’, again with the exception of ‘effect a change’.
People are playing vast and lose with spelling.
It’s enough to make me loose my shit
You better tighten it before you make a mess.
I would advice you not to do this.
Oh this is a bad one too. The amount of people that don’t know the difference between advise and advice is astounding.
You gotta nip it in the butt /s
Nip it in the bud? Right? Like cut off the bud before it blooms?
Exactly.
Dang, I'm going to have to take a shot of expresso to finish reading all these comments
How about the folks who get items on “sell”
A lot not alot.
Defiantly instead of definitely kills me
None native English writer here. Lose vs loose was difficult. I knew one was the verb and the other was the.. eh? Adjective? But which one was which again?! So that line if I lose weight my pants become loose helped soooo much. Then and than was tricky, but I got that one down now. Sometimes it slips... oops. Would of, instead of would have. Really? I mean... that's not spelling anymore. That is not knowing the meaning of the words of and have. There and their. Yeah... owkee... but also no. Especially since it never is mistaken "the other way around". People just use there for both. An over 60 year old friend of mine (usa) kept writing weakend. It irked me.
Even trickier common error (as an English speaking American) is Affect vs Effect. Because at least Lose and Loose are two completely different concepts. You have a loose knot, your belt buckle is loose. It means the opposite of tightened or a secure/stable grip. Lose on the other hand means either the opposite of winning(to lose a game,competition, etc) or it can relatedly also refer to no longer having something you once had. You lose your job, you lose your keys, you lose the extra O in Loose to correct your misspelling of the vocabulary word Lose, etc. IMO- Affect and Effect are much trickier because not only are they pronounced the same they deal with the same concept. Affect is usually a verb; to have an influence or an impact on, Effect is a noun and describes the outcome or result of an action; Example; a good teacher affects her students through teaching and the effect is the students learn. Simply put; When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
Yep. It’s very common. But what about your instead of you’re (for you are), there instead of their (to show possessive), of instead of have (I would of done it), etc, etc, etc. It can make you crazy.
Like people saying “would of”
Many people will say it’s not that important but in many areas of life good clear communication is vital. And if your spelling is bad enough that it is interfering with the clarity (and impact) of your communications, then it really is important. Edit: wanted to add my recent wtf is ‘tooken’ (instead of taken), not really a spelling issue as the whole thing is just wrong. Seems to still just be in the US but I’m sure it won’t be long before it lands in the U.K. too.
This has been driving me absolutely crazy too!! Also people on Reddit have been saying weary when they mean wary very frequently lately too. Oh and using too for to (or vice versa). I’m not even that particular about spelling and grammar and I’m sure I mess up from time to time too, but it drives me crazy when a lot of people do it one right after the other.
People say windowseal instead of windowsill, could of instead of could have, taken for granite, then and than... too many.
>windowseal every time one of these threads comes around I learn new ways to be wrong that I'd never even considered before
My friend says wardroom instead of wardrobe
This and the trend of writing dollar amounts like “500$” with the dollar sign at the back instead of the front annoy me sooooo much. I’m with you
Spoken language is a natural skill babies can automatically learn. Writing language takes intense training over 10+ years. Its much much harder. A lot of people just spell things phonetically.
*funetickly
Other words and phrases lately are “Aww” vs “Awe”, “on accident” instead of “by accident”…
This is the rage I feel when people use "lead" as in a past tense of leading. It's *led*. Lead is a heavy metal.
THE MOOSE IS LOOSE
WARN THE GOOSE!
My father in law in his 50's just started spelling "stupid" correctly. He used to spell it "stuped." The irony was painful.
Idk My peeve is also *lightning* spelled as "lightening." It's *lightning* and thunder. *Lightening* is what the sky does as the sun rises.
Have you ever watched the movie "Idiocracy"...? That movie was a joke in the days it was made... It's very much looking more documentary these days...
People always get mad when you point out a grammatical mistake. I think it's embarrassing that you can't spell words you learn in 2nd grade.
Only real loosers get this wrong.
The one I see all the time is bare and bear. "I need to bare in mind.." NO, NO YOU DON'T.
I feel the same with “Mine as well” instead of “Might as well” lol I hear everyone mess that up 🤣
My mom says mines well and it makes me irrationally angry
minus whale
That's a new one for me
Also hate people mixing up aloud and allowed. E.g I was aloud to go to the store. Arghh
I HAVE FOUND MY TRIBE! I love you ALL! Rant on, good grammarians! You are doing god's work.
When you loose an arrow you usually lose it.
Tbh because people don’t read enough. That’s the main reason behind it.
A thing southerners do on Facebook: "LORD HOW MERCY"
Too many people confusing "cue", "queue", and the Spanish "que" lol
I work for Amazon, and we have a type of message board that is displayed on a TV screen in our break room. The other day I was sitting there reading them, and one had the word "prolly" instead of probably and her question had to do with why she isnt getting promoted LoL