My fingers get to typing so fast sometimes that muscle memory kicks in and often the wrong homophone is typed. If I go back and read my work, generally see the mistake. Your / you're, there / their, blah blah blah.

It doesn't help that I can't spell my way out of wet paper bag. Thanks god for on-the fly spell check, the one with the red squiggly under the mystery word.

Cyno01: urban.derelict: Canton: /Also, "rouge" instead of "rogue."

alot

/awhile
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I like this Alot.

/Awhile has legitimate uses. "Come, stay awhile."

Fillet Mignon ???? I'm sure they meant to order one of these ...

Revmachine21: My fingers get to typing so fast sometimes that muscle memory kicks in and often the wrong homophone is typed. If I go back and read my work, generally see the mistake. Your / you're, there / their, blah blah blah.

It doesn't help that I can't spell my way out of wet paper bag. Thanks god for on-the fly spell check, the one with the red squiggly under the mystery word.

In the last couple years, I've noticed this happens to me too when I'm tired. Now I understand one possible reason others make such mistakes. I'm a spelling and grammar snob, however, so I still can't stand it.

cyberspacedout: Revmachine21: My fingers get to typing so fast sometimes that muscle memory kicks in and often the wrong homophone is typed. If I go back and read my work, generally see the mistake. Your / you're, there / their, blah blah blah.

It doesn't help that I can't spell my way out of wet paper bag. Thanks god for on-the fly spell check, the one with the red squiggly under the mystery word.

In the last couple years, I've noticed this happens to me too when I'm tired. Now I understand one possible reason others make such mistakes. I'm a spelling and grammar snob, however, so I still can't stand it.

It happens to me, too. It's annoying. Sneaky homophones are sneaky, and they strike when your mind is showing signs of weakness. Then, of course, the mind catches them, and smacks them down while facepalming. (The mind would facepalm if it had hands. Or a face.)

It's when you have to explain the difference between "its" and "it's" to a fellow student in your university-level professional writing class, and he doesn't believe you (even misinterpreting the Purdue Owl page you find for him) that you get annoyed. (Yes, that really happened.)

All i know is if i see one more "loosing" (instead of losing), ima pop a cap in someones ass

Probably the best part of this thread to me is Hors d'oeuvre. Everyone acts so superior when they 'know' it's pronounced whore-derve.

Try asking the French?

/I realise that in the U.S that's the correct pronunciation
//It's not correct anywhere else in the world...
///Not very serious, just found it funny

Rod iron

Gorthan: Probably the best part of this thread to me is Hors d'oeuvre. Everyone acts so superior when they 'know' it's pronounced whore-derve.

Try asking the French?

/I realise that in the U.S that's the correct pronunciation
//It's not correct anywhere else in the world...
///Not very serious, just found it funny

The joke pronunciation is, of course, "horse-doover." I've never heard the "whore-derve" version, though. Maybe it's because my mom took French in high school...

Strix occidentalis: /Awhile has legitimate uses. "Come, stay a_while."

/shorthand is ok on cellphones
//but vast numbers of humans are STUPID
/just how uncle sam wants them

This thread is a damp squid.

My ex used to say "flaming yawn" for "Filet Mignon", and it always made me think of vomit. Yeah.

/Also said "Squat team" for "SWAT team"

Well, to be fair, it IS "flaming young" to a Catholic Priest...

urban.derelict: I remember some reporter some 20-some yeres ago not knowing "hors d'ouvres" was French (pronounced "whore-derves") and said "horse d'overs" live, on the air.

/why yes, she was African American
//how about the African American plaintiff on Judge Judy who was 'conversating'
/JJ asked her to repeat
//she repeated she was 'conversating' with someone
/the stupid... it burns
//dunning-kruger -->
/French is a stupid language; 'consonants are not generally pronounced unless they're immediately followed by a vowel'
//-- WHO THE F*CK MADE THAT RULE?! REMOVE THEIR TESTICLES


It's approximately "or", not "whore".

/yeres?
//Dunning-Kruger, indeed.

Yep, most of 'em are black...

/get off my bridge!

ToxicMunkee: Are you sure? Because when I look at stupid people I'm pretty sure that life is really easy for them. Because they're THAT oblivious.

Perhaps more accurately then,'life is hard when you're smart surrounded by stupid?'

Bowel of Chiley, mistakenly titled "Bowl of Chiley", was re-released as a bootleg cassette in 1991 by Playhouse Productions and as a CD in 1997 by Rastacore Records without the band's permission.

They missed one.



The herb's correct name is "thyme".

Wheelbarrel.

I would like my 16 seconds back. Also, if you are trolling on here and calling people "loosers", you can't spell for sh*t and should be more humble.

Pocket Ninja: Stuff like this is so stupid. Who cares if you don't spell some food correctly or use incorrect phrasologies? For all intensive purposes, as long as your server understands what you want, you've communicated affectively.

People who say "Who cares?" about spelling are the people who SUCK AT SPELLING. This post demonstrates that point PERFECTLY.

How is it that so many people get by when they spell at a 4th grade level? It's mind-boggling.

Pocket Ninja: For all intensive purposes

JSieverts: it is from a Houston paper...obviously, they are all Texans, where the average person would need to gain 30 IQ points just to be retarded.

In case that statement is too subtle for you, let me be clear...

PEOPLE FROM TEXAS ARE THE STUPIDEST FARKING CREATURES ON THE WHOLE FARKING PLANET...MOST TREES AND ROCKS HAVE MORE BASIC KNOWLEDGE THAN ANY TEXAN

is that clearer?

Texan took your girl, eh? Don't worry; it happens. Don't be mad, bro.

/youstrollin.gif

rkallister: Pocket Ninja: Stuff like this is so stupid. Who cares if you don't spell some food correctly or use incorrect phrasologies? For all intensive purposes, as long as your server understands what you want, you've communicated affectively.

People who say "Who cares?" about spelling are the people who SUCK AT SPELLING. This post demonstrates that point PERFECTLY.

How is it that so many people get by when they spell at a 4th grade level? It's mind-boggling.

I'd posit there are just different tiers of intelligence and awareness. One level might be lacking the use of proper spelling and grammar, another might be an inability to grasp subtle humor.

LessO2: No Duck Tape/Duct Tape?




there is a reason why not.

turboke: They missed one.

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The herb's correct name is "thyme".

the correct speling intented is `time`

Fear the Clam: BurnShrike: Who the hell confuses "bowl' and "bowel"? Seriously.

Probably the same people who confuse "quite" and "quiet," "breath" and "breathe," and "cloths" and "clothes."

I recall a CL ad for a rental - 1200 month and it was descrived as "quit and quant with the fresh paints and floorings".

AbbeySomeone: Fear the Clam: BurnShrike: Who the hell confuses "bowl' and "bowel"? Seriously.

Probably the same people who confuse "quite" and "quiet," "breath" and "breathe," and "cloths" and "clothes."

I recall a CL ad for a rental - 1200 month and it was descrived as "quit and quant with the fresh paints and floorings".


I remember seeing a CL ad some years ago, posted in the barter section, in which a woman expressed her desire to find a good cosmologist to help her do her makeup better, and noted that if said cosmologist could do nails, too, that would be super.

Onkel Buck: [i26.photobucket.com image 225x225]

Like, free your mind, man!

From the first list:
Bouillabaisse: Like vichyssoise (vee-shee-swahz), this is a soup that can be difficult for an American to get right. So many consonants
Proper pronunciation: boo-ya-bes.

From the "20 more" list:
Bouillabaisse: This Provençal fish stew is traditionally associated with the port city of Marseille, in France, but its origins are said to go back much further than that to ancient Greece and the Phoceans who first created the recipe.
Proper pronunciation: BOOL-yuh-BAYZ

The grammar Natzis have having a field day in here.

VictoryCabal: Flaming young? In some restaurants in Pennsylvania, that's known as the Sandusky Special.

This deserved to be quoted and praised sooner.

skuzmak: All i know is if i see one more "loosing" (instead of losing), ima poppoop a cap in someones ass

Kneaded fixin

BurnShrike: NowhereMon: Life is hard when you are stupid

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Also, I'm not sure this is a list of words that are commonly misspelled, just words that the author found someone misspelling. Who the hell confuses "bowl' and "bowel"? Seriously.

"lack toast and tolerant"? Where the fark are they finding these people?!

The union of the set containing Walmart shoppers and the set containing Twitter users.

BurnShrike: Who the hell confuses "bowl' and "bowel"?

My mother told me she made that mistake. Seriously.

/In the fourth grade.

I just whipped out my Android phone, initiated voice to text, and said 'filet mignon'.

sure enough, it transcribed it as 'flaming young'.

This is 100% a voice to text or autocorrect error.

7. Dognuts / Doughnuts (or just keep it simple with Donuts)

They're made with dough, not do!

Krymson Tyde: BurnShrike: NowhereMon: Life is hard when you are stupid

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Also, I'm not sure this is a list of words that are commonly misspelled, just words that the author found someone misspelling. Who the hell confuses "bowl' and "bowel"? Seriously.

"lack toast and tolerant"? Where the fark are they finding these people?!

Back when I was teaching freshman and sophomore biology we did an experiment where plants were grown in fishbowls and exposed to low concentrations of various pollutants. In the lab report one guy wrote, numerous times, that the plants were grown in fish bowels. Another student a few years later wrote her research paper on endangered and distinct species.
Anyway, maybe these people really want bowels filled with watermelon and ice cream...who are we to judge?

Yeah. One teacher was talking about how one of his students was talking about the sales if cherry licker.

Have read "in regardless", "I stand correct" (after correcting someone, nonetheless), and many others.
Also, I was recently confused by a post referring to another that it had much incite.

"Flaming Young?"

urban.derelict: Precision Boobery: Way to out yourself by missing one.

I cant tell you how heartbroken I am that I did not respond exactly as you expected.

/mmm...boobery

I could care less.

/I am having a licit affair with a girl who encysts on using irregardles.

Did a 3rd grade presentation on this lovely Mayan city



Got all the way through it before the teacher pointed out that it wasn't "Chicken Itza"

/Ya, rly

At last year's xmas party for work, we were directed to the Karl Strauss at the end of a coldasack.
4fuxake.

The water was cold: A short while ago, a Farker wrote "engogneto". After I pointed out that what he meant was "in cognito", some other Farker jumped my butt, saying that I should just shut the fark up, that everyone knew what he was saying. I won't even mention how many times I've seen "ect." on Fark.

/ It's etc. dumbarses

// It's an abbreviation of et cetera.

///(In the style of Samuel L. Jackson) -- "Latin motherfarker, do you speak it?"

So YOU'RE the guy who kept leaving jizz on the underside of my desk in Latin 4 class! Bastard.