Here’s the latest written gaff I just saw: “True fully, I think Rick should answer that question”. Wow.  I keep saying this, but people really should read more.  No spelling check program is ever going to look at that and substitute “truthfully” for you.

Oh, this one really busted me up: “so as not to attrack static” – is it a typo, or another person who can’t spell?  We’ll never know, but we can snicker in a superior way anyway.

The words “to be” seem to be disappearing from the English language.  More and more, I see stuff like this “that’s only because the scanner needed calibrated”.  That ought to be “Needed TO BE calibrated”.  I’ve also seen “needs fixed” (or similar).  C’mon people, do we really have to be that sloppy and lazy?

I got this in an email from tech support today ”we will find the problem ALOT faster”.  At first, I thought that the lack of space between A and LOT was just a typo, but in looking at the lack of typos on the rest of the email, I had to conclude that this person really thinks that “alot” is a word.  Sigh…

Actually, it’s “convoluted”, but this has to get some kind of award for one of the more creative spelling perversions.

Thanks, David, for tossing me this one.

Really, it's not, even though some weenie dictionaries have now added it as such to pacify people who insist on "verbifying" it. (sorry)

You give someone a gift.  You don't "gift them".

You receive a gift.  You weren't "gifted" (but perhaps if you insist that you are, then you are gifted in a different way… Ahem)

A present is given to somebody for an occasion.  It's not "gifted".

Now some may claim that the english language is a moving, evolving thing.  If we're going that way, then I propose:

"chairing" – a new term meaning to be seated in a chair

"caring" – driving somewhere in a car (yes, this may cause confusion with showing care, but the language is evolving – get over it)

"webbing"  – surfing the world wide web

"inaning" – wasting your time reading my dumb posts

Here’s a good one I saw today: “people should be more non judge-mental”.  wow!  It’s “judgmental”, y’know.  Here’s one case where spell check actually doesn’t help much.

Really, I can’t decide which is more annoying and doofy, “The new Busy” or “Click it or Ticket“.