Why do so many posters on here say "shots" when they mean "shoots". I have never understood this.

Jim

I’ve never seen that. Have an example?

Now, loose and lose I’ve seen.😁

Most everyone I see post is well squared away.

Auto correct.......

Or ‘where’ when it should be ‘were’!!


If school was attended during the forty/fifty era years there wouldn’t be a problem but after those years there’s no such thing as a ‘slam dunk’ regarding usage thereof!

I see this quite a bit...

Sell / Sale:

"For Sell - _____", instead of, "For sale - _____", / "Decided to sale my _____ " instead of, "....... sell my _____".

With so many threads here it may take a while to find an example. I saw one just prior to making this posting but that was yesterday.
Jim

break, and brake seem to be used out of place quite often. As does bear, and bare

Or quite instead of quiet.

"prolly"

Like a toddler trying to say probably.

To, too, two, tutu......

I like that one, saves me keystrokes.

Geno

"I seen ..."

leaving out the "from" when saying that someone graduated from some level of education (that obviously had very weak English requirements)

Everbuddy allways blams there mispled , mispronunciated , badd grammers on autokorrect ore spelchek.


Mike

I bet you fudgkers can spell hummingbird correctly.

There ...their

oughta correct

I love these threads as I think it impolite to correct someone's word and grammar usage in a thread. Threads like this open the door to do so.

First, "then" and "than" do not mean the same thing.
Their, there and they're mean completely different things.
Two, to and too, well, see the above sentences.

The list goes on and on. I'll just ad one more. For the sake of all that is holy, please, PLEASE, somebody tell me, how can you go through your whole life speaking the contractions for the words/phrases "should have", "could have", would have", etc. and not know the contraction you were speaking?!?! I understand so many of us here try to out huckleberry one another on a regular basis. That can be denoted by "shoulda", "coulda" and "woulda" just like "me and a pard". However, when you type "should of", "could of" and "would of", you clearly don't know you are saying the contractions "should've", "could've" and "would've".

I no I could of bin more taktful then the weigh I did it hear, butt I two am guilty of these things by accident or auto correct. Weather you agree or not, there better things for me to worry about.

Yes, I now feel better.

Ad and add is another...

See my mia culpa. I won't even edit my post. See my second to last sentence.

Oh ya, it is "a deer" and "an elk", not "an deer" and "a elk".

Eye saw the thread in question two.
They're is know way this is more then people knot paying detention IMO

Mea culpa?

Ice in my..........TEA culpa

Nice! This is the very reason I said my whole "me too". Touche (I can't add the little mark necessary above the "e". Stupid French.

By the way mathman and SandBilly, did you skip this part of my post? I now have hurt feelings and need a safe space.

I didn’t quote it, I left the door open to edit. I’m guilty too..

I appreciate that. I just felt editing it would make me a hypocrite in light of the theme of the thread.

I put a smiley.

I notice that the most

I’m here to say I’m probably guilty of all of the above! I will claim I have an excuse, but those of you who know me, know better.

The other day on Fox News, they had a story about 3 baby deers.

These two don’t even sound the same.

"I seen" makes me want to stick a fork in my eye, repeatedly.

prolly

Geno

Not hard to find an example








Jerry

What did you seen?

I hate that pronunciation of the word but have gotten to where I type it on the fire to aggravate the aggravatable.

Their they go in there new car.

Yer’ prolly just a dickhead.

I could care less..HAHAHA

i always mix those two up.

Why is that, exactly? I know its correct and never really thought about it before, but I have no idea why.

I find slang annoying, for the most part, because it's done deliberately. Honest spelling mistakes I can live with.

I ran across one today. "A Cat Problem", page 5. post 14077662.

Jim

So you do care.

Generally, "a" is used before words that begin with a consonant sound and "an" is used before words that start with a vowel sound. Like most 'Rules" of English, there are exceptions.



Jerry