They're Their and There

KristeyK · Mar 14, 2011

OK, I almost forgot this. Along with their, they're, there...

A LOT of people have problems with this. A LOT, not alot, or allot. I cannot tell y'all () how many times I see this in FORMAL applications, much less here or on FB, or any other medium where one has to write.

QuarterLife88, MSN, RN, NP · Mar 14, 2011

I can't stand the incorrect spelling, "rediculous." UGH, just typing that out made me cringe, and it's a really common mistake, and I have no idea where it comes from because no book I've ever read spells it this way. It's "rIdiculous."

Also, spelling "definitely" as "definately." This is more understandable though, because if you sound it out, it does sound more like the latter.

Oh, and some people need to get very friendly with the enter key on their keyboards. Typing out a very long thought in one long block paragraph is enough to enforce upon my brain, tl;dr = too long; didn't read. The brain cannot read that way. If newspapers did such a thing, they would be out of business. Paragraph breaks are your friend.

Music in My Heart · Mar 14, 2011

While we're on the subject....LOL....
It's y'all NOT ya'll. :-P

Unless, perhaps, you're Swedish or Norwegian :-)

sevensonnets · Mar 14, 2011

Lord, don't even get me started on it's and its, im and ill. And then there are those folks who can't figure out how to make a word plural so they think they should just stick an apostrophe in there somewhere. Ex: puppys'.