Your getting worse... What do you think?

[doctorb]

Saw this sign in the hospital last year in an area that was under construction......

"We're making progress.  Thank you for your patients."

Not a bad mistake for a hospital, I thought.

[SwampDonkey]

You forgot the way most kids under 25 spell it: ur. :

Other misused spellings:

And the all time favorite?

winch/wench  :D :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I have done the Winch/wench one.  Which Wench is running the Winch? :D

Here in the DC area I hear the word Scrimps WAY too much.


Jon

[Cedarman]

While you'ins were fooling around with all these words I was working on our chimley so it took a while to get catched up.

[Mooseherder]

Sometimes it's more better to have a winch. ;D

[Dodgy Loner]

It always makes me snicker when I see wheelbarrow spelled "wheelbarrel" :D. Or when spigot is spelled "spicket".

[Sprucegum]

Norm your subject line is not a mistake if "getting worse" is the subject and not me 

[dewwood]

How about lol?

[RichlandSawyer]

Huked on fonics wurked 4 me!!!!

[Magicman]

It always makes me snicker when wheelbarrow spelled "wheelbarrel" :D.

I have seen a barrel sawed diagonally and the half with the bottom end used as a wheelbarrow.  I guess that was really a wheelbarrel.   :D

[Chuck White]

One that my brother uses a lot is: "I tried to learn him, but he just won't teach"!

No idea where he came up with that one!

[tyb525]

I've heard that one before, not sure where :D

Up here, it's a spicket or spigot, and wheelbarrel is what it's usually called, although I've seen it the other way, too.

[paul case]

you,
you-unz,
youall or yall for short. these are enough to get anybody mixed up.
i probably miss spell half the words i type on here. i went to college for 2 years and passed most of my classes but it may not have been as good of a college as you-uns went to.
well i aint getting no better at it either.pc

[isawlogs]

Sometimes  I need to read the words outloud and let my ears tell my brain what my eyes are trying to tell it.   

[Buck]

awe, Yous left out the New England expression YOUS

[Brad_bb]

Affect/effect

This is a difficult one for many.
Something affected you.  You are affected.
Something had an effect.  You feel the effect.

Oh, and orientated is not a word.  It's oriented.  I ran across this in the design world all the time.

[Dodgy Loner]

Up here, it's a spicket or spigot, and wheelbarrel is what it's usually called, although I've seen it the other way, too.

Down here, almost everybody pronounces spigot as spicket, and I'm sure there are lots of places where wheelbarrow is pronounced wheelbarrel, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no such thing as a spicket or a wheelbarrel (well, except for maybe the wheelbarrel that Magicman describes :D).

Another one that bugs me: Irregardless is not a word. Irrespective and regardless are.

[Coon]

Some of yalls words remind me of Jeff Foxworthy.  :D 

[paul case]

awe, Yous left out the New England expression YOUS

i, awe, eye, am not a yankee and i dont use yous. pc

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Jeff Foxworthy:

Jeat?

Naw, jew?

Naw, lezeat!

Arite.

[Ernie]

The question is whether the wether can stand the weather or whether the wether will wither or not.

[WDH]

Dodgy,

I have never seed a spicket on a wheelbarrel.  Must be a Mississippi sort of thing, South Mississippi anyway.

Norm,

Your just a particular stickler.

[Brucer]

A few years back the local paper ran an article on a new subdivision that was being developed. The article mentioned the equipment that was building the roads -- an excavator and a "grater". OK, thinks I, probably just a typo the proof-reader missed. Turn the page and there is a photo, complete with caption, of the "grater" at work.

[tyb525]

road grater...would make shredded asphalt :D

[ibseeker]

awe, Yous left out the New England expression YOUS

If you're from Philly but living in Orlando, it's yous'all