Most mis spelled horse word.

There was a "screwball cob" for sale on the FB group near me!!! Spat out my tea! Yes they did mean brown and white and not nuts!
 
asmp said:
Appaloosa in various ways or ads like this one:

"father was a 17 hands Irish sport this mare was bred to event and Iam going to be as honest as I can she's is powerfull but respect fall never reared or bucked I've shown her wear she went in a double bridle no trouble she went on loan were she jumped one meter thirty but had muscel waste on one side and girl didn't do to correct Iam not a strong enough rider to hold her in the canter but Iam working on it her walk and trot is done we've done cross country and spiders oured ride where she will jump huge from the trot tables ect she needs someone who is more experienced then me to be able to keep her power under control there isn't a nasty bone in her body I e been rider her in a bare back pad to work the back even as she's a mare to rember pain she hacks out alone travels well had shoes on although bare foot at moment this mare needs an experience clam rider to bring the best out of her as she is wasted with me and needs to go do what she was bred for or would make top class brood mare"

Please ask someone to check it over before you place the ad, especially when you want a few thousand for the horse.
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H&H Showing put an article on their fb page the other day about an ex serviceman who had qualified for the Royal International with his coloured horse. It would have been a lovely article worth reading if it hadn't have been littered with spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes and words just missing from sentences! I couldn't finish reading the article. I barely made it past the first paragraph. I commented on it asking if they employed proof readers or in fact people that could actually write. 5 mins later the post and whole article was pulled down.

For a professional magazine writing what would have been a lovely well deserved article they made an absolute mockery of it!
 
screwball does happen a lot and always makes me chuckle as I presume they have their own personal ice cream van.
 
At the age of nearly 60 discovered I have a form of dyslexia, I am educated to degree level. I always knew I had difficulty spelling, but as I used to read about a book a day I never realised I was dyslexic, it wasn't until my daughter was tested an university I realised some of the things she had been advised to do, that I had used to over come written problems.
My problem is most noticeable when I use a computer, even spell check doesn't iron all of it out, as if it spells another word that a bit the same correctly it gets missed. Sometimes changing fonts helps, or refreshing a page, your eye and brain finally pick it up. After 60 years there are still words I misspell, but I have learnt to check the common ones, before pressing send. I still sometimes when do hand written work spell how I say it, and its not because I am stupid or illiterate.
If FB has spell check I haven't found it, and often when you write on FB its very immediate, so you are going to make mistakes, and the font is small, so its harder to check.
Now there is some fun in spotting howlers, I laugh at my own ones on the phone, but please do not make assumptions about the people who have written them. I am short sighted and I need help to see, does that make me does that infer I am also uneducated? Honest we are smarter than we write.
 
Its almost excusable to spell things the way you say them but you do need to speak properly first. of instead of have is the one I dislike most as in could of should of its have for heavens sake
 
windand rain said:
Its almost excusable to spell things the way you say them but you do need to speak properly first. of instead of have is the one I dislike most as in could of should of its have for heavens sake
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This is the problem I think, most of these mis spellings are not really because people don't know how to spell, but because they don't appear to know what the word is supposed to be. Homonyms are more easily understood IMO, and it's easy for autocorrect to do things like haylage/haulage.

But
Cushions for cushings - you do hear a lot of people *speaking* the word cushions so it's not just a typo

My example of martian gal - guess the person looking had no idea that the word was martingale.
 
The manège v menage debate...I feel menage should just be accepted into the English language as a word for a horse riding arena. No-one I've ever met pronounces it "manège" so why should it be spelt that way? I know the French do ;)
 
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windand rain said:
Its almost excusable to spell things the way you say them but you do need to speak properly first. of instead of have is the one I dislike most as in could of should of its have for heavens sake
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Gosh there's snobbery. There are lots of ways of pronouncing words, I come from the north, and live in near Norfolk, and work with a vast array of people for who English is not their first language, I would say I have become used to working out what is said by what context the word is being used.
I also spend a lot of time explaining complex things in simple understandable language, it is the meaning that you have to get a cross, so sometimes I flatten my accent, but that's my problem not theirs.
I have also worked in Cambridge where there are a lot of people who, 'speak well', but their ideas can be just and mistaken and ignorant as any one else's. The most bigoted, bullying person I have ever had the misfortune to work with had beautiful spelling mistake free, grammatically correct handwriting, spoke in received pronunciation, apart from when she was angry, but unfortunately for her it did not make her smarter than me.
 
honetpot said:
Gosh there's snobbery. There are lots of ways of pronouncing words, I come from the north, and live in near Norfolk, and work with a vast array of people for who English is not their first language, I would say I have become used to working out what is said by what context the word is being used.
I also spend a lot of time explaining complex things in simple understandable language, it is the meaning that you have to get a cross, so sometimes I flatten my accent, but that's my problem not theirs.
I have also worked in Cambridge where there are a lot of people who, 'speak well', but their ideas can be just and mistaken and ignorant as any one else's. The most bigoted, bullying person I have ever had the misfortune to work with had beautiful spelling mistake free, grammatically correct handwriting, spoke in received pronunciation, apart from when she was angry, but unfortunately for her it did not make her smarter than me.
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Yes I think the same. I am a languages teacher and the most important thing I learnt when I was studying my languages (Spanish and Portuguese) was that you don't have to be grammatically correct all the time, you just have to be understood! I try to teach my students this too because, okay, they need to be as accurate as possible for their exams, but if they go to Spain or Colombia wherever and start worrying about perfect grammar, they will be too scared to ever say a word to anyone!
 
milliepops said:
This is the problem I think, most of these mis spellings are not really because people don't know how to spell, but because they don't appear to know what the word is supposed to be. Homonyms are more easily understood IMO, and it's easy for autocorrect to do things like haylage/haulage.

But
Cushions for cushings - you do hear a lot of people *speaking* the word cushions so it's not just a typo

My example of martian gal - guess the person looking had no idea that the word was martingale.
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The one that is really annoying me lately, again because people don't know what the word should be is 'bias' instead of 'biased', as in "the judge is bias towards Arabs'. In fact there seem to be a number of words that have lost their past participle, the 'ed' ending has just disappeared, apparently.
 
honetpot said:
Gosh there's snobbery. There are lots of ways of pronouncing words, I come from the north, and live in near Norfolk, and work with a vast array of people for who English is not their first language, I would say I have become used to working out what is said by what context the word is being used.
I also spend a lot of time explaining complex things in simple understandable language, it is the meaning that you have to get a cross, so sometimes I flatten my accent, but that's my problem not theirs.
I have also worked in Cambridge where there are a lot of people who, 'speak well', but their ideas can be just and mistaken and ignorant as any one else's. The most bigoted, bullying person I have ever had the misfortune to work with had beautiful spelling mistake free, grammatically correct handwriting, spoke in received pronunciation, apart from when she was angry, but unfortunately for her it did not make her smarter than me.
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But using the wrong word isn't about accent, it is about not using the correct word, which is perfectly understandable in someone who speaks English as an additional/foreign language but when it is simply carelessness or misunderstanding of what is correct it jars. I am an Infants teacher and have always praised children for having a go at spelling and getting a near approximation but when an adult is communicating in writing, as on a forum, it would help if they knew which word they were using, otherwise we could all find ourselves talking at cross-purposes.
 
I struggle to use these ' and I don't think I have ever had a past participle to lose lol! I am not too bad at spelling, I will always try for a different word if I am not sure. I would go for arena over the other one.

My mum is dyslexic so when I wanted to skive off school and I needed a note the next day we had to use "upset tummy" rather than diarrhoea!
 
Pearlsasinger said:
But using the wrong word isn't about accent, it is about not using the correct word, which is perfectly understandable in someone who speaks English as an additional/foreign language but when it is simply carelessness or misunderstanding of what is correct it jars. I am an Infants teacher and have always praised children for having a go at spelling and getting a near approximation but when an adult is communicating in writing, as on a forum, it would help if they knew which word they were using, otherwise we could all find ourselves talking at cross-purposes.
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Often what you would call the wrong word is may actually be the local way the word is pronounced.Professionals often get around not pouncing words that are liable to mispronunciation by using abbreviations, which creates an even greater problem.
You are also assuming their brain works the same as yours, mine doesn't. Its a bit like the old joke about the microphone that drops out in the middle or a word or sentence, only your brain fills in the wrong word. I know what I want to say, I have loads of ideas but 'sound' drops out when it come to writing it down.
If you are teaching small children I think you need read around the subject of dyslexia. I have obviously attained more in my life then my writing ability as a child would suggest, its not something you grow out of, you just learn coping strategies.
 
honetpot said:
Often what you would call the wrong word is may actually be the local way the word is pronounced.
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I think the stuff you see on FB is far more than *just* local dialect or pronunciation though? I totally understand your point, but the classic "chester draws" for a chest of drawers can hardly qualify as a variation in pronunciation? the person who wrote that can't have understood what the piece of furniture was actually called? Probably because of a long history of the way it's said being altered over time, few of us speak in RP after all. :)
 
Pearlsasinger said:
The one that is really annoying me lately, again because people don't know what the word should be is 'bias' instead of 'biased', as in "the judge is bias towards Arabs'. In fact there seem to be a number of words that have lost their past participle, the 'ed' ending has just disappeared, apparently.
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Is it? Genuinely curious as this is potentially one I'd be guilty of.
I thought "bias" was the noun, which wouldn't make sense in that context. "The judge has bias towards Arabs" sounds OK to me, so to me then they "are biased" towards/against whatever the subject matter is.

Happy to be corrected though!
 
honetpot said:
Often what you would call the wrong word is may actually be the local way the word is pronounced.Professionals often get around not pouncing words that are liable to mispronunciation by using abbreviations, which creates an even greater problem.
You are also assuming their brain works the same as yours, mine doesn't. Its a bit like the old joke about the microphone that drops out in the middle or a word or sentence, only your brain fills in the wrong word. I know what I want to say, I have loads of ideas but 'sound' drops out when it come to writing it down.
If you are teaching small children I think you need read around the subject of dyslexia. I have obviously attained more in my life then my writing ability as a child would suggest, its not something you grow out of, you just learn coping strategies.
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I have a qualification in teaching dyslexics, after extended study. Dyslexics, particularly need to know the correct word to use, in order to be able to use a dictionary to find the correct spelling.
 
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Sheep said:
Is it? Genuinely curious as this is potentially one I'd be guilty of.
I thought "bias" was the noun, which wouldn't make sense in that context. "The judge has bias towards Arabs" sounds OK to me, so to me then they "are biased" towards/against whatever the subject matter is.

Happy to be corrected though!
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You are quite correct if someone *has* a bias but if they *are biased* it is a past participle used as an adjective. I frequently see on here "I am bias", which is incorrect.
 
Alfalfa repeatedly spelled as alfa alfa! Only seen from one person but was someone with an education who should have known better.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
You are quite correct if someone *has* a bias but if they *are biased* it is a past participle used as an adjective. I frequently see on here "I am bias", which is incorrect.
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Apologies, completely misread your post. I thought you were saying "the judge is bias" was correct. Oops :)

We're all on the same page then, thank goodness!
 
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