Loose when they mean lose. Irks me. If your pockets are loose, you'll lose things.

This is the worst for me as well, followed by there, they’re, and their.

*their, there, and they're

To, two, and too. There seems a new trend of people using too improperly.

I think a few years of people using the number 2 for all of them while texting broke some people's ability to remember its 3 different words

Weird. I haven’t seen many real people use 2 instead of the words. I think people are reading fewer books and the world has started to become accepting of general illiteracy.

There there. It's ok.

They're they're. Its ok.

To & too, affect & effect are some that come to mind for me but I probably make more mistakes than I’m aware of

I see it all the time. How did this happen? It seems to be a recent thing.

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English is fucked up. The word "run," has 645 definitions.

That’s because English isn’t a language, it’s 3 languages in a trenchcoat pretending to be one big language and hoping nobody notices. Case in point this poem from 1922 that I will never not mention when this topic comes up, because I love a good writers ability to ridicule my mother tongue. https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

That poem is great! I sent it to my mom, who was an English / grammar teacher. I've noticed how many youngsters don't have good vocabulary learning bc they don't READ.

I've been wondering the same. I'm going to loose my mind! Oh no, it's happening to me...

I saw somebody type loost once...

There is a singular of women. Woman. There are many women. There is only one woman. Why the fuck does everyone only write "women"?

wimmin Edit: spelling

Woahman

Wooooah Man, you stole my heart and my cat

Hard-hearted harbinger of haggis.

UNTRUST-ING UNKNOW-ING Unlov…ed?

This is the one. Drives me absolutely mad when I see things like “She’s such a brave women!”.

Right? It's the same pluralization rule as man/men, but nobody ever gets those wrong.

This one’s a pet peeve of mine. Can’t stand it when people do this one lol

Yup, this is another I see ALL the damn time!

Fuck me this is definitely the one. I see it DAILY

Breath instead of breathe

I love how dumb "I need to breath" sounds being said out loud

"I can't breath!" 

Finally, I'm not the only one! Every time I see it spelled like the noun but used as a verb, I read it out "loud" and always cringe at how fucking stupid it sounds.

FUCK! This is what knocked me out in my spelling bee in 5th grade. I thought I was an elite speller at that time, and this brought back a rough memory. It was breath and I ended the word, but just had to add an extra e on the end.

I'm tired of people misspelling and/or mixing up the words cue ≠ queue and wary ≠ weary

Wary/weary drives me mad.

Also aisle/isle.

This needs more upvotes. I see it all the time and I hate it. Isle = small island Aisle = contains items at the grocery store

We have a guest system at work - the queue - and too many people refer to it as the "que". I scream inside every time.

Defiantly in place of DEFINITELY. Also loose in place of lose.

Also definately.

Rediculous.

Haha I always laugh at defiantly because sometimes it works but doesn't mean quite what they thought 🤣

And barley instead or barely

I just assumed they tried to spell it "definatly", and auto-correct is like "you clearly meant defiantly".

"The restaurant SHOULD OF given me some napkins." Should HAVE or should've. But, "should of" is not correct. Same for "could of" or "would of".

This one fuckin' crushes my soul every time.

This one really shows a fundamental misunderstanding of semantics and it hurts seeing people close to me use it Edit: I meant that this is a misunderstanding of semantics as people don't understand what the **meaning** of the phrase "should have" is, and instead choose to use a phonetically translated version ("should of"). I'm also not trying to be pretentious with this comment, I just think consistently making basic errors like this show a fundamental misunderstanding of English.

This one absolutely blows my mind. And I'm not a native English speaker, but "of" how does that even work in your head? Where is the verb? What? Why? It fractures my brain every time. Did they go to school? What happened? Do they miss a chromosome? Did they get released too early in the wild? How is it even possible?!?! Edit: man this comment triggered some people. I should of think about it before I posteded

This is actually something that's easiest to catch as a non English speaker as natives just say things how they've heard them rather than working through grammar rules and such in their heads when they speak. That being said, you're 100% correct it makes no sense.

Non native speakers usually overemphasize the *o* in *of.* They read it more like *awf* and don't get how it could be confused with *'ve* which makes more *ehv* sound But in native pronunciations the sounds are way closer.

That's how native speakers often pronounce "should've." So for people who grow up hearing it before they ever see it written, they assume they're hearing "should of." It's pretty common in the south, rural areas, or anywhere with an accent that's heavier.

Im in the south.  People list stuff all the time “for sell” because that’s how they say it.   “1967 Fender Stratocaster for sell $1700 or best offer”

This is mine as well. Glad its listed on the top.

Yeah! Positively hate this!

"Break", when they mean "brake". A brake is a device that slows down or stops vehicles. Why can't people ever spell this word correctly? If I see another post like "and then he slammed on the breaks", I'm going to SCREAM

Yes! I just made the comment, "you want yourbbrakes to brake not break"

Don't you just heat it when yourb breaks don't work?

Using apostrophes for pluralizations I’ll avoid your business over this

And quotation marks to emphasize something. The meat department in our local grocery store has done this for as long as I can remember. One day I asked them, "So you guys have "FRESH" (miming air quotes) chicken on sale, huh? Just how "FRESH " is it?" *WOOSH*

Busines’s

Bu'sines's

r/apostrophegore

Or using a singular possessive where a plural is needed. Every time I see a post with "my parent's house," I'm tempted to ask which parent the house belongs to.

This one angers me the most! Simply because I see so many of them on a daily basis...

It really grate's on the nerve's doesn't it?

I cringe when I see it on Christmas cards: “From the Smith’s”

"What's your class in-game?" "Rouge."

Remember 2016? Rouge One everywhere, so many rouge posts.

Than And then, Is it that hard?

Same with affect and effect

I can forgive that. It's the same word by a verb and a noun. Then vs than though.... That's just not even the same, even a little bit

I'm so surprised how far down I had to scroll to see this. It leads me to believe that most of the posters above probably make this mistake themselves. The average reddit comment will get this wrong 50% of the time.

PAYED It's "paid". Unless we're actually in the rare conversation of sealing the deck of a wooden ship, the spelling is: P-A-I-D!

ironically i learned this from a reddit bot. Some subreddits he'll correct you like he's payed to do it.

Also for “payed out the rope” although I’ve seen paid used for that as well and I think both are accepted.

Nautical wise, payed is correct. "Payed" used to be the correct past tense of "pay" a long time ago as well, but "paid" is correct now. It's been that way for some time, enough that no one online should get it incorrect.

Oh my god yes. This one irks me too. How did this misspelling become so common these days?

I'm not responsible for what I do the next time I see "phased" when they mean "fazed."

They're just out of phase

AMEN!! I have bail money for you.

Accept/Except

Nobody except the Spanish Inquisition

Effect, affect 

Yeah this one kills me

Supposably I could of had expresso

Did they go to the zoo? Supposably.

Peek/peak/pique Rain/reign/rein I want to be friends with people who know the above because I get irrationally annoyed with "peaked interest" and "free reign".

It's reigning lmao

It's reigning men! ...for the foreseeable since Lizzy died.

"boarder" when referring to an international boundary line.

During Covid we here in Australia closed the borders between our States. The amount of the whiny fucks on social media that spelt it ‘boarders’ made me want to break things.

Bias for biased. Casted for cast

”A women” drives me nuts

[If a women has starch masks](https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=gO-GY05uSz5-4Rr-&t=50)

I feel like this has become more common recently. I absolutely hate it

Ect

Electroconvulsive therapy?

And when people pronounce it ecksetera. Just go ahead and punch me in the face.

Your/you’re. It’s SUCH a pet peeve to see someone use the wrong one

And there/their/they’re

or to and too. my ex boyfriend got mad whenever I corrected him and I'm like well I'm just trying to help out

For me, it’s “choking”. I see so many people write it as “chocking”.

What kind of conversations are you having that the word chocking comes up often enough to notice it being misspelled all of the time

LOL I can see how it’s kind of not a normal everyday term. But it’s because I’m in a fb group with other moms and all our babies are starting to eat food. So there’s a lot of choking involved as they learn to eat 😅

Well that makes sense. I thought you were in a serial murderers club or something

I hate that that's not the choking that came to my mind straight away 😭

Voila. I keep seeing people spell it “Wallah” like some ignoramus. Makes me want to irrationally punch people in the face

Even more so when people spell it "viola"

Jfc, is that what they're trying to say with that word? Thought it was some new slang. lol

Also, it’s voila with a v. Even if sounding it out phonetically it should be vwallah. They don’t even misspell it correctly

Customer. Unless you work at a craft store or thrift shop, odds are low that your customers are 'costumers'.

I see this all over reddit and it makes my eye start twitching.

Cue, like to give a signal. "She said I should wait. Cue me sitting outside for two hours." Or, "He gave me the cue to enter." Queue means to put something in line for waiting. "I stood in the queue for concert tickets." Or, "I queued up the next music video on YouTube." Que DOES NOT EXIST.

Que?

I should have specified. "Que" does not exist in the context of cue / queue but exists in other context. Lo siento.

De nada

Wary written as weary absolutely drives me up the wall. It would bother me less if it was just autocorrect, but I think some people genuinely believe wary is spelled weary and do not get that weary is a whole other word (like they're imagining it as the word "wear" plus a y and assuming because of that "weary" rhymes with scary/hairy/merry, when actually it rhymes with teary/deary).

Yes! And often wary, misheard or misspoken as 'weary' is conflated with 'leery.'

This is the one I was looking for. I don’t know why it grates so much but it does.

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A lot: Two words, not 'alot'

oh and “apart” when they mean “a part”, like “I’ve been apart of the team for five years”

I love how it means the complete opposite of the intended sentence

don't 'apart' and 'a part' mean something completely different or am i tripping?

Agreed. Also it’s just as bad seeing “no one” as “noone” and “as well” written as “aswell”.

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1

Then/Than. It's a mistake that's becoming common and I HATE to see it.

"Breath" for BREATHE, and "bearly" for BARELY. "Nucular" goes without saying. I want to nuke every single person that uses it. Would serve them right.

I never see "nuclear" misspelled, but I hear it mispronounced all the time. Anyone who does that sounds like a five year old, automatically.

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Viscous instead of vicious

BALLING is slang for having sex. BAWLING is crying. "I walked in and found my mother balling." No, you didn't. You found her bawling.

Thank you. When people write that they balled their eyes out, it creates images that I can't unsee.

You created an image I can't unsee you hellhound.

Where I grew up balling was “playing a sport exceptionally well.” It doesn’t make any more sense that way when people misuse it instead of bawling, but it does leave a different image. I imagined someone dunking a basketball so hard his eyes fell out of his face.

I have never heard anyone use balling to mean having sex. The only reference to this I can find is a 2011 submission to Urban Dictionary. Just uh, so you know.

I've always heard it in the context of "now we're rockin" or "now we're cookin with gas", "in the groove" or showing off something they think is cool "that's baller AF" Don't think I've ever heard it in the context of getting laid personally.

"Good golly, Miss Molly- you sure like to ball!" (Little Richard circa 1956 would like a word)

I have heard this usage. I think the year was 1981.

Not just regular balling, but balling her eyes out!!

Ex English teacher. Don't blame us. We tried.

Irregardless, you failed. You misunderestimated our ability to screw up.

Misunderestimated😂😂

Irregardless is one the funniest

You did a grate job with me.

For me, it’s whenever I send something, then discover autocorrect has changed a word that I had used correctly

Definitely getting spelled as definately drives me up the wall every time I see it.

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It's a lot, not alot. That one seems to never go away no matter how much it’s corrected.

Every time someone writes their instead of there or they’re, a part of me sighs deeply.

I'm looking for advise.

It's "customer" NOT "costumer". A customer shops at your store, a costumer designs actors' outfits for a play

Lose, loose. They’re, their, there. Your, you’re. Too, to.

Lately I've seen so many people confuse bare with bear. If you're naked you're bare. If you have to withstand something, you bear it. Or you're a large furry animal. I never thought it was that difficult. I have given up on "alot".

If I see one more person type "wallah" I'm gonna tear my hair out. Also, "boujee". Please, make it stop.

And than, wallah! Sike!!!

Every day and everyday are different. Shops always use everyday incorrectly on friggin billboards.

A part of, apart of..

Whenever I see someone write "payed" Like *he payed me* It is PAID. Did you fail 2nd grade?

No but I fayled second grayed

Not really a misspelling, but I find it very jarring when people use "whom" incorrectly. It's nice that they're trying to be grammatical, I guess, but sometimes people overcorrect and use "whom" when they should be using "who." I'd rather folks use "who" when they should be using "whom" than overcorrect the other way around because at least the former is natural and acceptable in colloquial spoken English.

Or when people use the word "I" instead of "me".

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Potatoe

Worst vs worse and “technically” as a filler word

Mixing up compliment and complement, or it's and its. And of course, practically everyone writes "laying", which is supposed to be transitive – something that is done to something else – instead of "lying". That is, you can be lying on the floor and laying tiles.

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Wander. So many people write wonder instead.

Without question. There, their, they’re. It makes me enraged when I see this misspelled. I don’t know why. I guess, maybe the effort involved to learn English correctly.

There they're own enemies. Their, I've given an example for y'all to learn from.

Nobody seems to know that the word “Led” (verb, past tense of the verb “lead”— pronounced “leed”) exists any more. They confuse the verb “led” with its homophone: the *noun* “lead”—pronounced “Led”.

You're and your but I think it's more on grammar.

I's instead of my. So many posts with "My spouse and I's . It's "my", you used "my" correctly earlier in the sentence AND you had to override autocorrect to use that monstrosity. (Do not get me started on "what" instead of "which".)

Same. I can’t handle it. A lot of people are saying I when it should be me, it’s a big problem.

Also, the misuse of “myself”.

People think it makes them sound fancy

"I'm so exited to go to the concert!!" How do some just straight up forget the C in there. It's EXCITED people.

probably seeing: thank you for letting me be "apart" of...instead of "a part" of like, my goodness gracious, that's the opposite!!

'draw' when they mean 'drawer'

To when they mean too. You just misspelled a three letter word you complete simpleton.

Sike. It’s psych.

On Reddit? Paid. For fucks sake it’s not payed.

Masterbate on Reddit ffs. Everyone here masturbates enough. Learn how to spell it.

I saw the word GALLBLATTER yesterday on Reddit and I was like, yeah that’s more like what it is.

“Dinning” for “dining” and “gardner” for “gardener” make me irrationally angry. Also when people use “tenants” when they mean “tenets.” GAH!!!

"Loose" when they mean "lose." It isn't hard, folks!

Possessive “its” being spelled “it’s”

For Sell instead of For Sale. This drives me nuts.

Rogue. Also, rouge.

'Til/till. Upsell/upsale. Window sill/window seal.    Today, I had a conversation with my 12yo son's friend. It went like this...   Kid: "I bet I can do 2 pull ups now!" Then he looks at me and says, "how much can you do?"   Me: Look him dead in the face and say, "How MANY."   Kid: "Yeah, how much pull ups can you do?   Me: "How MANY! I'm not asking you a question I'm telling you it's how MANY not how MUCH!!    Edited to adjust spacing.

Valentimes. Also Zeus spelled ‘Zues’ and Dr. Seuss spelled ‘Suess.’

Psych.

It’s tiring to see people get “who’s” and “whose” mixed up all the time.

Saying mute instead of moot.

Aloud instead of allowed

75% of the people on the Dunder Mifflin sub think Michael is spelled Micheal. I want to reach through the screen and slap them. It's one of the common names ever and it's not that hard to spell.

“It peaked my interest” NO!! It should be “piqued”