I seen it spelt wrongly lots of times but ........

[Lakesailor]

I seen it spelt.

Oh dear!

Oh dear! It appears you don't read the thread.


On the matter of the spelling of "yachts", there was a yacht dealer/broker in Windermere who had a web site with every instance of "yacht" spelt (spelled) "yahct"

 

[NormanS]

Oh dear! It appears you don't read the thread.

What makes ypu say that?

 

[nigelmercier]

I've seen that on ebay a lot. People on ebay are generally a bit dense...

I was bored one day, and having read yet another listing saying "thankyou" I did a search: 10% of them wrote it as one word. Sigh!

 

[nigelmercier]

I was bored one day, and having read yet another listing saying "thankyou" I did a search: 10% of them wrote it as one word. Sigh!

What were you taught in school about the spelling of to spell.?

Spelled, naturally. Spelt is also a type of slag.

 

[Lakesailor]

What makes ypu say that?

Depends if you are upbraiding him for the "I seen" or the "spelt".

 

[alan_d]

Bit like a double entendre which is only noticed by people who know too much!

As they say, "A double entendre only means one thing ...."

 

[John.edwards]

lets start on" buoy" or "bouy"......and the american pronunciation "booo-ey"

 

[mjcoon]

Spelt is also a type of slag.

Graded, too: spelt; spelter; speltest...

Mike.

 

[nathanlee]

I was bored one day, and having read yet another listing saying "thankyou" I did a search: 10% of them wrote it as one word. Sigh!

Well, I distinctly remember being taught to 'thankyou' in primary school. Perhaps a weird spat in the 80's?

 

[Davegriff]

I seen thankyou alot aswell.

 

[Davegriff]

Is all this what they mean by joinedup writing?

 

[DownWest]

Graded, too: spelt; spelter; speltest...

Mike.

And their I woz thinking it was a tart who new about spelin

 

[mjcoon]

Well, I distinctly remember being taught to 'thankyou' in primary school. Perhaps a weird spat in the 80's?

Probably taught to send a "thankyou"; run together it's a noun. Similarly, in IT, "setup" used as a verb gets me every time...

Mike.

 

[macd]

Probably taught to send a "thankyou"; run together it's a noun.

Maybe, maybe not. The OED prefers 'thank you' as the noun, but accepts 'thank-you'; no mention of 'thankyou'. Personally, I'm not that bothered, since there's no doubt about the meaning and nothing much has been lost. I do find myself objecting to the the likes of the merging of infer and imply, because they deny those of us who can be bothered a little precision. Some dictionaries have given up the unequal battle and accept them as synonyms (but not, yet, the good old OED).

 

[Richard10002]

I seen it spelt.

Oh dear!

+1 sounded like someone off our local council estate

 

[macd]

+1

See Lakey's post #21.

 

[prv]

I seen thankyou alot aswell.

Ah, the famous alot!

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html



Pete

 

[NormanS]

See Lakey's post #21.

Lakey is under a misapprehension .

 

[Lakesailor]

Unless you also haven't read post #25

 

[Pitterpatter]

Not nautical, but I used to work for a very cleverly named American company called 'Segue'.

One of those words that if you hear it, you can't spell and and if you see it you can't pronounce it.

All very good - until it comes to getting the company name out there! Funnily enough, they do not exist any more.