Spelling mistakes that drive you nuts

[Victor]

people always mix up to and too. its annoying because when scanning a post i often have to go back and read more carefully.

[jakethebake]

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I thought the recent style manuals here (US) have drifted toward the British method, supporting punctuation marks outside of the quotation marks in those instances.

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that bugs me too, unless the quote contains a question.

[istewart]

People that say "due to." People that say "amongst" and aren't British.

[AZK]

Villian instead of Villain on this [censored] message board.

[biscuitman]

Not a spelling mistake per se but this annoys me.

The phrase as I use it is "I couldn't care less". In the US this seems to be used to mean exactly the same but the n't is dropped ie "I could care less about blah blah" which to me changes the meaning and makes no sense in the context it is normally used in.

If you *could* care less then you have some level of "care" above zero about the issue so therefore it does affect you!!!! Jeez its bugging the hell out of me just writing this. If you have no care about a situation you COULDN'T care any less. I am now on a mission to stamp out this nonsense from the world forever !!!!!

[jakethebake]

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Not a spelling mistake per se but this annoys me.

The phrase as I use it is "I couldn't care less". In the US this seems to be used to mean exactly the same but the n't is dropped ie "I could care less about blah blah" which to me changes the meaning and makes no sense in the context it is normally used in.

If you *could* care less then you have some level of "care" above zero about the issue so therefore it does affect you!!!! Jeez its bugging the hell out of me just writing this. If you have no care about a situation you COULDN'T care any less. I am now on a mission to stamp out this nonsense from the world forever !!!!!

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we covered that last week.

[Skipbidder]

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Judgment ... not judgement


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This one is mine too. I see this all the time. I'm not sure about other places, but in the south all the churches have "Judgement Houses" instead of haunted houses at Halloween. I have never once seen it spelled correctly.

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Both judgement and judgment are correct.
Judgement is the British spelling.
Noah Webster changed it to judgment for no particular reason.

Yes, yes. I should have read the whole thread before replying. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

[jakethebake]

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Both judgement and judgment are correct.
Judgement is the British spelling.
Noah Webster changed it to judgment for no particular reason.

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I'm glad our ancestors took advantage of the opportunity to fix all the things the Brits were misspelling. It would be really annoying to have to use -re instead of -er. And all those damn Cs, Zs, & Ss. When will the Brits catch on?

[biscuitman]

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Both judgement and judgment are correct.
Judgement is the British spelling.
Noah Webster changed it to judgment for no particular reason.

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I'm glad our ancestors took advantage of the opportunity to fix all the things the Brits were misspelling. It would be really annoying to have to use -re instead of -er. And all those damn Cs, Zs, & Ss. When will the Brits catch on?

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When you guys quit it with could care less.

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[stankybank]

your and you're.

wierd.

truely.