Proofreading Homonyms And Homophones Etc

[tiggerblue10]

https://twitter.com/chronicleflask/status/1500529757825417221?t=iOB0cqRCj4efJUJFITlxew&s=19

This tweet amused me today. I'm pretty sure I've made loads of mistakes using the wrong written word.

There was a time on AB when spelling errors were picked up on but haven't noticed it much these days :o)

[dannyk13]

Tigger//
There was a time on AB when spelling errors were picked up on //
I think that correcting posters grammar was frowned upon by the Eds.

[goodgoalie]

...that should be posters' grammar, danny :)

[dannyk13]

Good goalie , should it not be posters's

[goodgoalie]

No - the apostrophe for a plural comes after the S

[maggiebee]

You are correct goodgoalie. Meaning right, NOT write or rite.

[jno]

that peaked my interest.

I mean peeked.

No, hang on...

[dannyk13]

OK, but let's make this time of correcting grammar.

[goodgoalie]

Eh?

[dannyk13]

Good goalie, as I said above, correcting poster's grammar is frowned upon.

[Atheist]

jno; 12:35

"Piqued"?

[goodgoalie]

Maybe someone should start a thread on irony!

[jno]

aww, Atheist, you must have peaked at the answer.

[Atheist]

jno, no, I didn't peak! I can't imagine what you were trying to say there.

[THECORBYLOON]

Various metals are irony...

[maggiebee]

Their, there, they're dannyk13, don't get upset.

[jno]

lol maggiebee

[Ken4155]

I've got an irony board but it's a tad wobbly.

[wolf63]

My spelling is abysmal - I have Grammarly to help me to spell correctly.
I get all the words that she lists mixed up.
Affect/Effect
License/Licence
Complimentary/Complementary
all confuse me, I know the difference but not which one is which.

[tiggerblue10]

Dispatch / Despatch is one that I often get confused with.

[dannyk13]

I can remember when schools stopped correcting errors in spelling giving the reason that as long as the word or phrase could be understood was all that was necessary. It was a period that didn't last long.