Most annoying spelling error?

[El_hefe]

English is the open source language.....

[Road Runner]

(Socrates999 @ Nov. 01 2010,15:31) BTW ... "Leftenant", anyone? Where the fuck does that come from?

French.....  as in the French Lieutenants woman....    

The word lieutenant derives from French; the lieu meaning "in place" as in a position (cf. in lieu of); and tenant meaning "holding" as in "holding a position"; thus a "lieutenant" is somebody who holds a position in the absence of his or her superior

RR.

[daveduke007]

(Socrates999 @ Nov. 01 2010,14:31)

(daveduke007 @ Nov. 01 2010,10:05) the mispelling of colour, humour and centre etc etc really get my goat  

Thanks for the examples of misspelling, DD!  

Definition of irony = "mispelling"

At least I didn't catch you out Socrates    

I did misspell "misspelling" on purpose to see if anyone would notice

[Torurot]

Research suggests that your body knows you made a typo when your conscious mind simply can't be bothered
Laura June Nov 1st, 2010
http://www.engadget.com/2010....en-your

This may or may not come as a shocker to you -- but when you make a typo, your body can tell, according to a new study at Vanderbilt University. The study monitored a group of people who could type at least 40 WPM consistently as they transcribed copy. In analyzing the typists' key strokes, researchers found that interestingly, even if a typist's mistake was immediately 'silently' corrected onscreen by those running the study, the typist's fingers fumbled or paused, signaling an 'awareness' that a mistake had been made. Essentially, this means that while the conscious mind may not know that a mistake has been made (especially if there's no visual evidence of it), the part of the brain that controls the fingers typing movements have some awareness of the mistakes. For those of us who spend our lives banging away at a keyboard, these preliminary results won't really come as any surprise -- the feeling of having made a mistake is pretty instinctual. Regardless, the results suggest a hierarchical manner of mistake detection in humans, the "lower" more instinctual part of the brain recognizing and correcting the mistake, while the conscious part of the brain assigns credit and blame. Now if we could just figure out what part of our brain is responsible for relentlessly pointing out others' typos, we'd be set.

Switched http://www.switched.com/2010....es-them
sourceWiredhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...rs-know-typos/

[guydesavoy]

(El_hefe @ Nov. 02 2010,01:14) English is the open source language.....

quite true, or dynamic as strocube puts it.

One thing that gets me is 'another think coming'

Also I fear that the past participle 'brought' is becoming extinct.

Even on the BBC