Bill's got it!!

Disc and disk are pretty much interchangeable. 

Axel is perhaps even better known as an ice skating maneuver.

Yooper and Upper.

Yooper is a human that speaks Yoopanese and

lives in the UP (Upper Penisula of Michigan.)

I speak some Yoopanese but it  is a hard language

to understand.

 

Pert near is common in Oklahoma as well. 

Creek or crik?

Neither had I ever seen "prolly"  before frequenting the tractor sites.

However, I would not call anyone an idiot for using that misspelling.

I consider myself a fairly good speller but I seem to have gone down hill since

grade school  when I was one of the two best spellers in the whole sixth grade class.

I don't necessarily consider one's spelling a measure of his intelligence and although I might chuckle at some misspelled words, I try to get by that and concentrate on the content of the message which might contain a lot of good information.

I always shy away from criticizing spelling on this site for fear of screwing up a word in my message.

However, as I was typing this, spellcheck corrected me at least three times.  LOL

Ain't technology great?  LOL

There, their, and they're

to, too, and two

I agree with Ted about the "dumbing down of America", and the whole educational system.  The educational system is becoming too lenient, especially with the 3 R's (reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic).  Another part of the problem is the use of texting.  I think texting is a great tool and very useful.  HOWEVER, it is grossly misused and abused. R instead of are.  U instead of you, etc.  People are getting TOO lazy.

I'll prolly gits in trouble fer this one, too:

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Another spelling/pronunciation annoyance of mine....guys that say, "I drive a Dodge with a Cummings engine". It's Cummins....no "g".

As a former teacher (just one of my careers) I can assure you that teaching policies are made by people who make only token visits to actual classrooms.

And the on-site administrators (principals, etc.) are so focused on their career advancements that they do their best to impress those upper level policy makers with statistics demonstrating how well they are complying.

Thus teachers are quite strongly discouraged from giving F's and strongly rewarded for fudging up on all grades... to the point of threats to close down programs or re-assign teachers to undesirable classes or classrooms.

Their justification - and unfortunately it does make at least some sense in the Alice In Wonderland world of education - is that federal and state funding depends on how well school districts adhere to even well recognized disastrous programs that sound so good like "No Child Left Behind".

end of rant.

never saw the word before, love it and do not care if it's in Webster's or not.

Steve, the 'R' in warsh is the opposite of a silent letter. Not there but pronounced none the less.
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Now, that's funny!

Some people "drawer" a pitcher and some people draw a picture.

Then, some people keep their "cloths" in a "draw".

Would you give me your grandma's "receipt" for her apple pie?

I heard that lots of times in the old days.

Believe it or not , according to my Webster's dictionary, receipt can be used to

mean recipe.

Probably the most misspelled word on the tractor sites is "carburator"

for carburetor. 

Again, I don't really care as long as the message makes sense otherwise.

Along those same lines, a commonly accepted term is "hot water heater"....

why would you want to heat hot water?

on the other hand, in Boston all the R's are silent... but definitely not the Irish ladies!

Boy was nervous about the wedding night, so he asked his uncle/dad, what do I do?

Old man sez Boy, just take that hard thing you play with, and put it where she pees....

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so the boy puts his bowling ball, in the sink...

As a former teacher (just one of my careers) I can assure you that teaching policies are made by people who make only token visits to actual classrooms.

And the on-site administrators (principals, etc.) are so focused on their career advancements that they do their best to impress those upper level policy makers with statistics demonstrating how well they are complying.

Thus teachers are quite strongly discouraged from giving F's and strongly rewarded for fudging up on all grades... to the point of threats to close down programs or re-assign teachers to undesirable classes or classrooms.

Their justification - and unfortunately it does make at least some sense in the Alice In Wonderland world of education - is that federal and state funding depends on how well school districts adhere to even well recognized disastrous programs that sound so good like "No Child Left Behind".

Don, I agree with you. Most of the teachers do their best to educate their students but have to put up with overpaid administrators trying to climb the career ladder, unruly students, parents who won't discipline and think their child can do no wrong, and keeping up with all the useless requirements it is a wonder they can teach at all. There are some gad apples just like in any profession but most love their students and try to do their best. One thing that burns me is that 2/3 or more of my property tax bill goes to the school board but teachers have to take their own money to buy classroom supplies.

When my daughter was in elementary school the county was still mostly rural and we had a great principal that RAN the school. It was HER school, HER children and she loved every one of them but she was not afraid to pull out the paddle and use it. She did not back down from any parent, the school superintendent, or anyone else. And she was "Mrs." not "Dr." The school really went down after she retired.

ever wonder how a made-up word like that "got started"?

Webster's does include new words every year that are accepted as legit because of "usage".

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Things that grate me, usually quietly in the background: "prolly", corn stocks (STALKS!), "of" instead of the contraction 've such as should of instead of should've. 

 

"Pert near", that's just dialect for "pretty near" I always thought. 

 

Conversational versus written language is interesting, especially (exspecially!) when we try to write a conversation as on here!

and try to stay awake.