Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 217

Another mangled Facebook meme:

Link: Facebook, Unusual Facts

quite for quiet

Right word, wrong form, # 4

This mangle can be found on an Australian video available on Facebook:

Link: Facebook, Sea FM Hobart, ‘Depressed goat […]’

Mangle aside, the film tells a heart-warming story; it’s worth watching if you like goats, donkeys, animals-in-general, stories-with-happy-endings or some combination of the above.

laid for lay

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 30

Dr Faustus spotted this in his Facebook newsfeed:

Link: Facebook (member access only), post at Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 13:20

Why not opportunity’s and wage’s?
Cook’s & Chief Cook’s

Not Washed or Cooked, # 24

It would seem that Facebook's Little Helpers have no access to spell-checking facilities, nor much aptitude for proofreading:

Link: Facebook Help Centre, 'How do I see my friends' upcoming birthdays?' (item 200667833309958)

Not Washed or Cooked, # 21

A/B has forwarded this annoying Facebook advertisement that keeps coming up:

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 49

This little gem was going the rounds on Facebook not long ago (and probably still is, that being the nature of the beast). It's found on the Internet in various versions, some of them spelt correctly. This version isn't (this is Mangling English: if you want a version that's spelt correctly, you'll need to go elsewhere…), though I'm not sure whether the site linked below is where it originated or not.

Leaving aside the oddities produced by the abbreviated style, the last piece of 'advice' has clearly not been subject to any kind of spell-checking or proofreading routine:

Link: DateHookUp.com, 'Health Tips,care to share?'