Misspelled words that drive me CRAZY

[sugarplumkitty]

skiddish - Do people think this comes from critters skidding as they run away? NO! It's skittish!
ect - This is an abbreviation of the word "etcetera." It's spelled, "etc. with a period!

I stopped taking the hormones again. I wonder if my extreme irritation this morning with these common misspellings is due to hormonal imbalance?

Comments

[longletterlover.livejournal.com]

I hate when people write:

Strickly -- it's strictly dammit!

I want to "loose" wait -- you probably don't want to loosen it up, you probably want to lose it, don't you?

Supposably - supposedly!

LLL :)

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

YES! I hate those, too! I'd just seen the two I ranted about or I would have included yours, too. There's a bunch of them that bug me.