It's I'm, not am etc

[RiffRaff]

Yes. This particular error does my head in.

 

...and "non-" instead of "none".

And "none" instead of "non-"....

 

The "lend" and "borrow" misuse...

[max]

Most of these errors I can put down to not having been vaguely awake during school hours. However, the one I really don't understand is when people use 'that' rather than 'than', even journalists and novelists make this error.

Edited December 2, 2017 by max

[max]

Muscle memory I think, coupled to a lack of adequate proofreading. Typically you want to type "that" much more often than you want to type "than", e.g. in the version of the Bible that I used for a C++ exercise in counting the occurrences of words, "that" occurred 12,912 times, but "than" only 482 times.

 

Not that the Bible is necessarily perfectly representative of English usage, but it's probably not all that unrepresentative.

 

I often type "that" instead of "than", when my fingers are on autopilot. I usually spot the mistake when I read over what I've written, but not always.

 

Thanks, it really has puzzled me for a long time.

[mike-s]

It even crept into match of the day last week...."He could of put a cross in".....Arrgghhh!!!

[choogling]

Using "been" instead of "being" ..?

 

I've bin to work, another one that is used at Stockbridge, I'm bound to, meaning I'm going to.

[Cyclone]

Bound to means that it will inevitably be done, so technically correct, although an odd thing to say if it's merely an intention.

[lectrolove]

Not knowing the difference between "as" and "has".

[smithy266]

Can I get a cup of coffee.

[ohmyword]

Some people are way too pedantrick when it comes to words, spellings, ect.

[RiffRaff]

Some people are way too pedantrick when it comes to words, spellings, ect.

 

Better a "pedant" than a semi-literate....