Well, maybe if we see incorrect spelling on posts, we should correct the spelling for the poster. It can only help in the business world. When I go to a website and I see spelling and/or grammatical errors, I tend to take my business elsewhere. It means the person with the website has not paid attention to detail. It also may mean they did not have the business sense to hire an appropriate firm to do their website. If I am paying for something, I want attention to detail.
I love this thread. My mom was an English teacher and you can bet that I learned how to speak and write correctly.
Everyone has already mentioned my pet peeves except for the misuse of I and me as well as lie and lay. If I said I was going to lay down, my mom would say "What are you going to lay? An egg?" I only did that once. 
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Einstein failed school but he was a genius!!! Don't judge a book by the cover!! There will probably be many here whose feelings will be hurt deeply by some of the comments I see here. No one spells perfectly all of the time.
There's no reason for anyone to get their feelings hurt. My previous post was actually referring to my husband. I love him dearly but I don't think he could spell squirrel if his life depended on it. His lack of spelling accuracy doesn't make him any less of a man, nor does he get his feelings hurt when I correct him. I think he just tunes me out now...
Well, maybe if we see incorrect spelling on posts, we should correct the spelling for the poster. It can only help in the business world. When I go to a website and I see spelling and/or grammatical errors, I tend to take my business elsewhere. It means the person with the website has not paid attention to detail. It also may mean they did not have the business sense to hire an appropriate firm to do their website. If I am paying for something, I want attention to detail.
Oh yeah!
People should have the sense to spent quite a few dollars and cents, since they can't do it themselves.
Expresso instead of Espresso
Disclaimer: I'm not a perfect English speller and my grammar might be off some days. English is my second language.
There's no reason for anyone to get their feelings hurt. My previous post was actually referring to my husband. I love him dearly but I don't think he could spell squirrel if his life depended on it. His lack of spelling accuracy doesn't make him any less of a man, nor does he get his feelings hurt when I correct him. I think he just tunes me out now...
My husband says he does it "on accident." Every time he would get irritated when I would say, "You mean you did it accidentally, or was it an accident?" I think he has figured out I'm not going to give it up, and is correcting himself, now. He would say, "Well, I didn't do ON purpose!" So, my reply would be, "You mean you weren't purposeful in your intent? You didn't do it purposefully?"
Expresso instead of Espresso
Disclaimer: I'm not a perfect English speller and my grammar might be off some days. English is my second language.
That gets me every time... And I have heard it so many times that I find myself saying it, or trying to spell it that way, and it takes a few "clicks" to realize what I have done...
Some chefs(?) on tv says Marscapone instead of Mascarpone
wow, shanter, cool!
once was enough, man --so what kind of egg came out
"Mama, I'm not going to lay an egg!" (My choice would have been a Faberge Easter egg.) 
It took me a few years to get my doctor to stop saying "Now lay back." and instead say "Now lie back."
Alright, well I'm going to get in trouble for this, but 'I could care less'. In the rest of the English speaking world it's 'I couldn't care less".
And, this isn't English but anyone who tries to use the word voila and comes out with some other version of it.
If anyone who spells so poorly genuinely thinks they are spelling words correctly, are they blind? Do they really not notice that the rest of society spells it a different way to them? That's what I don't understand. And when people are replying to something where it has been spelled correctly, especially names, that's just ignorance/laziness.
I also make it a point to avoid websites that are full of spelling errors. It demonstrates a lack of attention to detail to me.
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Faberge. :D
If anyone who spells so poorly genuinely thinks they are spelling words correctly, are they blind? Do they really not notice that the rest of society spells it a different way to them?
No, they don't notice.
Mst pple's brain wll fll in wht's mssng an thy wll nt evn no tht wht thy r rdng is mssplld. Of course, this is only true to a limit.
The brain does a trick which actually fills in the missing bits (as long as there aren't too many) so that what is being read makes sense to the reader. Maybe I'm dating myself, but does anyone else remember the ads that started "f u cn rd ths" which were for a shorthand course. Their method of shorthand looked a lot like the text speak used today. It's just the evolution of the language. People spell phonetically and regional dialects spelled phonetically sometimes look like a foreign language. Eventually everyone will be spelling 'Knife" as "nife", because while the silent "K" adds nothing to the recognition of the word (and adds nothing to a 140 character tweet), the (equally silent) "e" at the end indicates that the "i" is a long vowel.
Of course, that's not to say that "marshmellows" and "walla" don't drive me crazy.
There are grammar forums and there are cake forums. This is a cake forum.
Let's lighten up.
Alright, well I'm going to get in trouble for this, but 'I could care less'. In the rest of the English speaking world it's 'I couldn't care less".
And, this isn't English but anyone who tries to use the word voila and comes out with some other version of it.
If anyone who spells so poorly genuinely thinks they are spelling words correctly, are they blind? Do they really not notice that the rest of society spells it a different way to them? That's what I don't understand. And when people are replying to something where it has been spelled correctly, especially names, that's just ignorance/laziness.
I also make it a point to avoid websites that are full of spelling errors. It demonstrates a lack of attention to detail to me.
Oh yeah! That, too! When I'm arguing and someone retorts with "I could care less!" I just SMH
And I 
your rant!
I noticed that in the UK and Australia, and maybe some other countries as well, that some of our words that we're use to, they have a "u" added in, and it took me a while to understand it was the way they spelled in their country of origin. Such as flavour, colour...I use to wonder why they did that, but then you have to look at our language with all the silent letters in them and you kind of have to wonder how any of us really learned to spell correctly with so many unnecessary letters in our words. I still get confused by "use" and "used". Like in the sentence above where I say "I use to...", I've had people tell me it should be "used". To me that's wrong, but I haven't taken the time to look it up or really worry about it..I still use "use".
My husband is a horrible speller. He doesn't let a lot of other people know about it, but he's always coming to me and asking me how to spell something, and sometimes he looks at me as if he thinks I'm pulling his leg and he'll ask me to spell it again 'cause he doesn't believe it's spelled that way. I've often wondered, too, if all this texting is really good for our kids. How are they going to learn to spell correctly with all those shortcut words? I saw a cartoon once where a child was participating in a spelling bee and they asked him how to spell "late". He spelled it "l8". Makes ya kinda wonder....
I noticed that in the UK and Australia, and maybe some other countries as well, that some of our words that we're use to, they have a "u" added in, and it took me a while to understand it was the way they spelled in their country of origin. Such as flavour, colour...I use to wonder why they did that, but then you have to look at our language with all the silent letters in them and you kind of have to wonder how any of us really learned to spell correctly with so many unnecessary letters in our words. I still get confused by "use" and "used". Like in the sentence above where I say "I use to...", I've had people tell me it should be "used". To me that's wrong, but I haven't taken the time to look it up or really worry about it..I still use "use".
My husband is a horrible speller. He doesn't let a lot of other people know about it, but he's always coming to me and asking me how to spell something, and sometimes he looks at me as if he thinks I'm pulling his leg and he'll ask me to spell it again 'cause he doesn't believe it's spelled that way. I've often wondered, too, if all this texting is really good for our kids. How are they going to learn to spell correctly with all those shortcut words? I saw a cartoon once where a child was participating in a spelling bee and they asked him how to spell "late". He spelled it "l8". Makes ya kinda wonder....
I always want to add the "u"to words and I was born and raised in the states ;-) I think it looks fancier, lol. I always want to add and "e" to the end of blonde, and grey and gray confuse me, hahaha!
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I always want to add the "u"to words and I was born and raised in the states ;-) I think it looks fancier, lol. I always want to add and "e" to the end of blonde, and grey and gray confuse me, hahaha!
"I always want to add [B]an[/B] "e" to the end..."
I know, typos and spelling incorrectly are two different things but I couldn't resist ;)
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