OT - Sorry, but it bothers me

[CCinCT]

It's ROLE model or player not ROLL

It's FAZE not PHASE

It's THREAD not TREAD

TYPO's are excused (especially without a keyboard) - sometimes they are very comical !

PS - My posts are not perfect either, but these are pet peeves and I had to vent.

And this applies from everyone from Presidents to newscasters, more of a pronunciation issue - it's nuclear that's new-kleer not new-q-ler

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

BTW, an individual discussion is called a "thread" because the original spawning message board was The Fray, at Slate. BoneYard Superhero Phil was a charter member.

 

[Icebear]

One finger typing with spellcheck on an iPad and a 30 minute deadline on editing certainly do make for numerous word substitutions and oddities. Many are hilarious indeed.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Websters' \ˈnü-klē-ər, ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər\
Dictionary.com nu·cle·ar [noo-klee-er, nyoo- or, by metathesis, -kyuh-ler]

not "nu kleer" It's a glass house thing.

 

[CCinCT]

Websters' \ˈnü-klē-ər, ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər\
Dictionary.com nu·cle·ar [noo-klee-er, nyoo- or, by metathesis, -kyuh-ler]

not "nu kleer" It's a glass house thing.

Per Webster's, apparently it's either

Usage Discussion of NUCLEAR

Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-kyə-lər\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
First Known Use of NUCLEAR

1846
So how did they pronounce it in the 1860's ??

 

[MilfordHusky]

Sight v. site is another one.

With the small phone keyboard, I have turned "list" into "lust" multiple times. I cleaned it up whenever I saw it, though part of me was tempted to leave it.

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

Sight v. site is another one.

With the small phone keyboard, I have turned "list" into "lust" multiple times. I cleaned it up whenever I saw it, though part of me was tempted to leave it.

which "part"?

 

[Wally East]

TYPO's are excused (especially without a keyboard) - sometimes they are very comical !

"Typos." Careful with that apostrophe

 

[CCinCT]

"Typos." Careful with that apostrophe

LOL (which my grandson says is not cool anymore). Can't even blame it on "fat finger syndrome"

 

[meyers7]

LOL (which my grandson says is not cool anymore).

I use LQI (laughing quietly inside). Seems more accurate.

 

[meyers7]

It's ROLE model or player not ROLL

It's FAZE not PHASE

It's THREAD not TREAD

TYPO's are excused (especially without a keyboard) - sometimes they are very comical !

PS - My posts are not perfect either, but these are pet peeves and I had to vent.

There, they're, their know, don't get to, too, two upset.

And this applies from everyone from Presidents to newscasters, more of a pronunciation issue - it's nuclear that's new-kleer not new-q-ler

Like a certain president who doesn't know how to pronounce "corps".

 

[Bestiarius]

I thought NUCLEAR was a brand of window washing fluid.

Role Tide!

 

[VAUConnFan]

Is it creek or crick?
Is water pronounced "wawter" or "watter"?
Is aunt pronounced "ant" or "ont".

The OP's frustrations are understandable and are not to be taken lightly, but try to ease up a bit and meet the rest of the world closer to the middle.

There are times when I post here after having proofread at least twice and am amazed at the obvious errors that were totally overlooked. As my college educated mother would would jokingly mock, "It bes(bees) that way sometimes."

 

[Aluminny69]

Actually, this doesn't bother me ( I find it a bit humorous) , but it really is HEALTHY and not HEALTHLY. (Contrary to popular opinion.)

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[pinotbear]

I often type in dialect, so's none a' y'all kin tell iffin' I'm doing it right or not!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

My wife contacted a local private (maybe charter) school after we received a brochure - sent to every address in the area - that substituted "on-sight" for "on-site" and had a non-sentence in one of it's descriptions (something like "Distruptive behavior in the classroom can be").

It took more time to convince them that we were not upset with getting the brochure (because we don't have children) than to explain that it was somehow odd that a school looking to attract students wouldn't proof-read their advertising material (which, not surprisingly, was apparently produced off-site).

 

[Kibitzer]

My list of words falling into this category of misuse by typo is lengthy, but I have a few favorites to share.

It seems common for sportswriters to use reign instead of the correct rein. "Summitt turned the coaching reigns over to Warlick."​

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Peak instead of peek. Judgement instead of judgment (just one "e"). Supercede instead of supersede. (No "c." Honest.)​

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Confusion about affect/effect. This troubled me for years until I learned the simple rule: Affect is a verb, effect is a noun; the exception is that effect becomes a verb only when vigorous action is applied.​

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Lots of smart people struggle with it's and its. First, you should amputate its' painlessly from your usage practice; it's an impossible construct. Next, use it's when you want to say it is. Use its to indicate possession. "It's a pain to remember the grammar rule and its proper application."​

Enough for today. Permit a reminiscence. I once assisted an academic friend with a humungous treatise about the relationship, if any, between pornography and rape. Throughout, he had used casual when causal was called for. He remains grateful for my little bail-out job.

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[meyers7]

Is water pronounced "wawter" or "watter"?

Wutter if you are from Philly area, like Geno is.

 

[meyers7]

I often type in dialect, so's none a' y'all kin tell iffin' I'm doing it right or not!

Least you are iffin' and not '

 

[pinotbear]

..oh, I'm that, too!

 

[meyers7]

It seems common for sportswriters to use reign instead of the correct rein. "Summitt turned the coaching reigns over to Warlick."​

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Well Summitt's tenure was kind of a reign.

 

[Wally East]

one of it's descriptions

One of what now?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

My spelling is not that good. But, in general, I usually know what words mean and how they should be used. One of the words I consistently spell wrong if I don't think about it is maintenance, because an expense form at the company where I first worked had it spelled wrong and the incorrect spelling stuck. I am more likely to spell a common word incorrectly than to switch "site" and "sight" as in my example. Likewise, I mess up with its and it's, although I'm better with your and you're, which I have seen used incorrectly.

 

[Patty Bailey]

Can I add to the list?
It's pissed, not pist
It's a moot point, not a mute point
Cite, site and sight all have three different meanings (LOL, once a 3am finishing up on a term paper I actually typed and submitted - "Works Sighted" instead of "Works Cited". My teacher had a field day with that one!)
Frustrated, not Flustrated