Lose & Loose

[BlackST]

Bought and brought.


ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[grumpy52]

Breaks or brakes
Sills or seals

[GG89]

Another I see pop up from time to time is draw/drawer.

I opened the top draw.

No!

[Evoluzione]

RussH91 said:

I crashed into a tree after loosing control having swereved for 'pothole'

[Fergie87]

Advice or advise the difference between the two is not rocket science.

[Funkateer]

There. their, they're!

[CommanderJameson]

I hate it when people axe me questions and they aren't pacific about what they want.

[redtwin]

"Women" as the singular.

[RizzoTheRat]

GG89 said:

Another I see pop up from time to time is draw/drawer.

I opened the top draw.

No!

If you're ever having issues with low blood pressure, have a look on e-bay for "chester draws"

[collateral]

RizzoTheRat said:

GG89 said:

Another I see pop up from time to time is draw/drawer.

I opened the top draw.

No!

If you're ever having issues with low blood pressure, have a look on e-bay for "chester draws"

Where's me washboard?!

[littleredrooster]

Ayahuasca said:

Bluebarge said:

littleredrooster said:

The trap was bated...

And is still waiting to spring for a second time....

Nobody has stepped on the secondary mine yet.



I am waiting with baited breath!

You've just defused it!

I deliberately left it at the edge of the curb aswell too see if I would get alot of replies!

[Tony2or4]

A friend always pronounces 'kettle' as 'keckle', and her first car was apparently a Ford Angular.

Ooh, I love this thread! Most of us would never dream of correcting someone's mistakes to his or her face, so this is a great way to get minor irritations off your chest.

So, now I'm warming to the theme, here are a few of my 'favourites':

off of

'providing' instead of 'provided'

nucular

sikth

texing

'innovative' pronounced 'innivitive'

Edited by Tony2or4 on Friday 2nd August 12:22

[shakotan]

Tony2or4 said:

sikth

If you're referring to speaking, I can't think a way of saying sixth that doesn't make it sound very like 'sikth' phonetically in normal speech. You have to be a massive pedant to pick someone up on that.

[320touring]

RizzoTheRat said:

I have a collegue who writes "specific" but says "pacific". Weird.

I worked with a girl who did that- One day I just added "Other oceans are available" onto the end of her inane wittering.

[RizzoTheRat]

I should try that

This guy also buys stuff online from amAzon (stressing the middle a, pronounced as is "has") which always causes a few smirks in the office.

[Johnnytheboy]

Ayahuasca said:

In an ultimate PH moment, I once got reprimanded for spelling 'whoosh' wrong.

[lockhart flawse]

I notice that if the poster can't be arsed to push the capital key for the letter i (as in i would like to say) then it is highly likely you will get a loose/lose, brought/bought or break/brake, and there is no chance that you'll get the correct form of their/they're/there.

As the OP said - people have obviously learnt to write and presumably have been taught the correct form of there etc so why not use the correct form? Perhaps they're a bit fik.

[FlossyThePig]

Tony2or4 said:

...and her first car was apparently a Ford Angular...

The Ford Anglia from the '60s (as in the Harry Potter film) was very angular.

[littleredrooster]

Johnnytheboy said:

In an ultimate PH moment, I once got reprimanded for spelling 'whoosh' wrong.

I should of thought you would of, too!

[Ayahuasca]

littleredrooster said:

Johnnytheboy said:

In an ultimate PH moment, I once got reprimanded for spelling 'whoosh' wrong.

I should of thought you would of, too!

Still unphased by that.