Misspelling

[Sapphire Sebright]

You got cherries to pick? All cherries here in my area are gone.

... "You have got cherries to pick."
Eh, that's a common one, I'll let it slide... mostly because I'm guilty of the same thing, sometimes.
Oh! There's a thought: "Cheries," instead of "cherries."
... Oh, goodness.

 

[R2elk]

Expresso.... Hate that one.

Pacifically.... I don't even know how to spell that one. As I shouldn't since it's not a word.

Exspecially - Same as Pacifically.

Then there are those special ones that should be spelled spatial.

 

[Buckeye Amy]

One of my coworkers says “supposably” instead of “supposedly”.

 

[cheepteach]

probly instead of probably

 

[room onthebroom]

Would thinking, "I see you there!" and "it is theirs," help?
"E" for "see there," and "i" for "it's theirs?"

The way I taught my kids is ‘there’ is often a place. You can remember because it has the word ‘here’ in it. Their is referring to living beings. You can remember because there is an ‘I’ in it. They’re is an abbreviation for they are. The apostrophe is used to show where you removed a letter so that you can turn two words into one. If you think about the sentence before you say it, it might make it easier to remember which witch is which.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Ugh.. I almost managed to forget about that. I'm getting it deleted just to spite you.

Noooooooo! I haven't read it yet! Waaaaaaiiiit!

 

[room onthebroom]

Than & then. “I had more than you, but then I spent it.”

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

probly instead of probably

.. Now, if that had an apostrophe to make it "prob'ly," I wouldn't mind as much, as it would then be a contraction -- like how "don't" is "do not," and "ain't" is "am not."
But... probly, on its own?
Just... no....
Oh, and speaking of apostrophes, here's another mistake that I see around: "Its" instead of "it's," or vise-versa.
"It's" is not the possessive; it is a contraction of the words "it" and "is." "It's" means "it is."
"Its" is the possessive. I assume that this is to avoid confusion.
"It's not that bad" is correct when stating that something isn't that bad; "Its misspelling was impressive almost to the extent of it looking like it was done purposefully," on the other hand, is the correct way of saying that something's misspelling was so impressively bad that it looked like it was done on purpose.
Okay, I'll stop now. Grammar lesson over.

 

[ShannonR]

Affect and effect

 

[cheepteach]

Affect and effect

was thinking of those but couldn't decide if affect had 1 or 2 f's---didn't want to look stupid!