What misspelled words drive you crazy the most?

Question

I wish people wouldn't misspell THEIR words so much.
It's THEIR, not THERE. :)

Answer 1

Many of them! I teach grammar and usage to ninth graders, and I see frequent mistakes. Some of the worst:
"a" used in place of "an"
"an" instead of "and"
"were" instead of "where"
"hisself" and "theirself" instead of "himself" and "theirselves"
"to," "too," an "two" in all cases
"there," "their," and "they're" in all cases
"it's" when it should be "its"
"alot" rather than "a lot"
"affect" and "effect" reversed
These are just a few from a long list of misspelled and misused words which drive me nuts!

Answer 2

Everyone who has mentioned homophones is right--they are enough to drive you crazy when they are not used properly. Another thing that just bothers me to no end is mixing up similar words (i.e. except and accept) or just not speaking well and transposing the mispronunciations into written speech (i.e. 'half to' instead of 'have to'). There is also the misuse of the apostrophe--some people think that because a word ends in an 's' that maybe they should throw in an apostrophe before it for good measure! The apostrophe has three uses: to form possessives of nouns, to show the omission of letters (contractions), and to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters. Apostrophes are NOT used for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals, including acronyms. Too many people have become very lazy in both oral and written English.

Answer 3

My Name!!!!

Answer 4

confident, misspelled words and incorrect grammar stress me nuts. I bite my tongue plenty when I see spelling blunders and undesirable English those days because of the fact this is everywhere and, it form of feels, the could of coaching is falling. i've got heard many academic institutions have waved with the aid of countless essays that are infested with 'SMS language'. It has grow to be a habit of a few to apply abbreviations, acronyms and to 'disemVOWEL' words. i'm possibly considered as a pedantic man or woman, yet i think of this is taken into consideration needed to be articulate pupil.

Answer 5

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Answer 6

"your and you're"
Those two drive me nuts. See my other post.

Another thing that drives me nuts is when people use their goofy text message shortcuts when they have access to a full keyboard on their computer (unless they really are posting from a cellphone, which would be ridiculous):

ur - your or you're
u - you
ppl - people
im - I'm
bf - boyfriend
gf - girlfriend

Etc, etc, the list goes on. It is so annoying. I also hate it when people don't use punctuation.

Answer 7

I'm with you on the homophones! Don't forget you're/your and too/to, etc. I find "college" particularly annoying...as a high school English teacher, you wouldn't believe how often I've seen "I want to go to collage..."

Answer 8

I agree, when people misspell their, it gets on my nerves...but not as much as your and you're. I hate when people write I like you're hair. It annoys me so much!

Answer 9

"a lot" It is 2 words. Drives me nuts everytime I see people write/type "alot"

Answer 10

WEATHER:rain snow, wind hail etc...
WHEATHER: to introduce another possibility or an alternative

plus most of the other ones named above!!