PSA: weary and wary are not the same thing

As I was opening your post, I was thinking, "I know the difference, right?" And I did. Super similar words.

I'll add a couple that have been driving me crazy at work.

Alls is not a word. "Alls I have left to do on your file..." and knowing she's often speaking to attorneys. Ugh. Embarrassing.

And acrosst. Not acrossed, because it's said with such a strong "t" sound at the end. By a couple people in my office. "That never came acrosst my desk."

Oy.

The word is across. No double c, no ed, and no t.

Just saying.

Holy $hit! I can't believe I did that oldcrow !!! And in THIS thread!! LOL!! I'm fixing it dangit!!

Although in my defense, it's a non-word so I shouldn't REALLY know how to spell it! 

FB feeds are notorious for these kinds mistakes. sometimes I can't focus on the point of the comment because I get distracted by all the misuses.

Happens to me all the time-and a lot of times it is because in my head I hear my accent which tends to add all kinds of sounds where they aren't supposed to be.

Someone posted an article on Facebook lately about how many variations of spellings and pronunciations aren't WRONG...they are just evolution of language.  It referenced "axe" instead of "ask" and used many more examples of words or phrases that are in our collective "grammar pet peeves" list.  Whether this is right or wrong, I was cringing just reading the article. 

I've had to correct DD(13) twice this week for typing "ladder" instead of "latter."


I'm OK with this one because aww isn't a real word....if I were to pronounce either in that "awww" tone of voice, they would sound the same to me.  If I were using it, I would spell it with extra "w's":  awww.

Yes!! And thank you!

Any more response will just send me and my soapbox over the edge!

Just going to add this and head out:

I so nearly posted that pic to my feed yesterday but I resisted!

Too/to......thats the one getting me at the moment! Grrr

Yep, I believe this is what is happening when people use weary like wary. I see it quite often online too.

I had this issue with fifth graders quite often (mines).  They also called the Pacific Ocean the Specific Ocean.  Actually, everything that has been previously posted has appeared in essays I have read too often.  When I was in college, we were taught to not correct the child's misuse of words but to say to it correctly so that they would hear it correctly.  For the record, it is much more effective to tell them the mistake.  

Drives me up. the. wall.

It's definitely, not defiantly or definately. That one drives me bonkers. I know some of it is autocorrect but the second is just stupidity. I want to correct them every time I see it.

It's "I want to sell this," not "I want sale this."

Why do people keep insisting that women is both singular and plural? But yet they don't screw up man/men.

Quite/quiet/quit are also annoying autocorrects I see on social media.

I could spend the entire day correcting the idiots on social media but it'll result in absolutely nothing.

Affect and Effect are my pet peeves... I always want to correct but usually refrain.

leannec, someone posted that meme on my page for/about me yesterday.

Almost all of these annoy me.

Last week, I just got on someone for posting "pacific" instead of "specific." I could not even focus on what the post was about because I was so distracted by that glaring error. Ugh.

Lisa