Most mis spelled horse word.

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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This 100%
 
HashRouge said:
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!
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We really do need a quick like button 😉
 
Perhaps people don't read as much as they used to and therefore never see the words they hear written properly? I am a total grammar/pronunciation/usage pedant, which doesn't mean I never get things wrong myself but it does mean I care about using a language correctly.
 
Cortez said:
Perhaps people don't read as much as they used to and therefore never see the words they hear written properly? I am a total grammar/pronunciation/usage pedant, which doesn't mean I never get things wrong myself but it does mean I care about using a language correctly.
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Everything is social media and autocorrect these days and even the online publishcations can't spell or use correct grammar so what hope does the new generation of smart phone addicts have? (Says she whilst typing this on a smart phone ...)
 
Wasnt snobbery at all just an observation. I have no problem at all with bad spelling. My oh is dyslexic he says some very funny thing as he reads the first and last letter and anything in the middle will do. He then of course thinks that word is correctly used in the correct context. The point I was trying to make was that to spell correctly by ear you need to hear the word correctly spoken in the correct context. So to spell well you need to be able to learn the correct way of spelling each word or how to find them in a dictionary. By the way I love regional accents when spoken not so much when written down as it can be intelligible
 
Sometimes autocorrect on phones causes more problems that it solves. My phone alway tries to correct haylage to haulage. When I go to correct if I just press enter it autocorrects again. I have to carefully select what in my phone's opinion is the incorrect option to get it to accept haylage. It's a new phone and I'm slowly building the personalised dictionary but at the moment I have to be ultra careful with any words it is not familiar with.

Martian Gal sounds like something a phone would do if it didn't know the word Martingale.
 
Another one I've recently seen is bread, instead of bred. As in, 'so and so' bread his horse.
 
windand rain said:
Wasnt snobbery at all just an observation. I have no problem at all with bad spelling. My oh is dyslexic he says some very funny thing as he reads the first and last letter and anything in the middle will do. He then of course thinks that word is correctly used in the correct context. The point I was trying to make was that to spell correctly by ear you need to hear the word correctly spoken in the correct context. So to spell well you need to be able to learn the correct way of spelling each word or how to find them in a dictionary. By the way I love regional accents when spoken not so much when written down as it can be intelligible
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The problem is that if you (one) spell words incorrectly, you can find yourself writing, either complete gibberish or exactly the opposite of what you intended.
A classic on here was someone writing about her horse running away with her, she fell off , she had no breaks. Now did that mean that she was unhurt, or that she couldn't stop?

ETA, those who are 'board', do they mean they have lost interest, or are they just stiff?
 
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going off on a slight tangent here, I've just written out a document - is is 'bear in mind' or 'bare in mind', or anything else! I can't make my mind up if I got it wrong, or it won't matter!! Someone please help!

All other horsey words and comments here I've thought of and seen in various ways. I might not know the right answers, so do my best to think of an alternative spelling/word.
 
I get very irritated by inappropriate use of capital letters or not using capital letters when it is appropriate. Full name of horse not capitalised for each part of name and capitals just popping up in the middle of a sentence.
 
Fools Motto said:
going off on a slight tangent here, I've just written out a document - is is 'bear in mind' or 'bare in mind', or anything else! I can't make my mind up if I got it wrong, or it won't matter!! Someone please help!

All other horsey words and comments here I've thought of and seen in various ways. I might not know the right answers, so do my best to think of an alternative spelling/word.
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It is bear in mind, unless, of course, you are following that tip for the nervous going to an interview and imagining the person you are talking to wearing no clothes. Bear = carry as in weight-bearing to put it into a horsey context.
 
Fools Motto said:
going off on a slight tangent here, I've just written out a document - is is 'bear in mind' or 'bare in mind', or anything else! I can't make my mind up if I got it wrong, or it won't matter!! Someone please help!
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This is one I’m always confused by!
Thanks for the explanation PaS
 
milliepops said:
in protest at the alfa-alfa thing (it's really common round here) I have taken to calling it alf-alf-alf-alf. :D If you can't beat 'em... :D
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I hate the alfa alfa thing. I call it Lucerne to people who call it that. really confuses them.
 
Midlifecrisis said:
Havent read all posts but "reins" and "bridle" spelled in many weird and wonderful ways drives me mad.
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I've seen reigns (which is an odd one) I was sending a message recently and autocorrect turned haylage in to haulage so I'd say phones are a big cause of it.
 
I am inordinately irritated by the interchangeability of "of" and "off". I fell of my horse. :(
However, I must admit I'm dreadful at using capital letters where I should. Most electronic devices I use correct it for me. If I post without my glasses it all goes to pot!
 
Also when people that are looking for a horse to buy and it must have ‘good breaks’ when they mean brakes😳
 
Fleebitten = bogged off due to itchy bum
Bridal path = don't know why the vicar got upset when I rode my horse up the aisle
I brought a horse = my arms are really tired now. Wish I'd bought a horsebox too
Menage = sand gets into some very awkward places, but at least there are 3 of us to sort it out
Grabbed the reigns = the Queen is a bit cross
Good breaks = goes straight through the fence
Not phased = needs a cattle prod to get him going
Out of a stallion = it's a **** foal
 
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