L-I-B-Y-A, people. It's SPELLED LIBYA. NOT LYBIA

[Sonicwall]

Jeez, people.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves.

From now on, I'll be alerting to people who spells that country's name wrong.

[ecstatic]

1. I've seen a million different spellings for Qaddafi. Can you clarify

that spelling too?

[NYC Liberal]

4. .

;)

[Sonicwall]

8. There's several spellings

but the most accepted is Qaddafi.

I remember Khadaffy, Gadaffi, etc.

But the country's name is Libya and should be respected as such.

[Azathoth]

2. Libya. Lybia. Labia. Is there a difference?

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

16. Mmmmmmmmmm...

Yeah.

[cali]

3. no shit sherlock.

[elocs]

5. Spelling is one thing, but pronunciation is nearly exactly the same.

Currently we are fighting a war in Iraq and there's no consensus on how that country's name should be pronounced.

[Aerows]

6. One "A" instead of a Y juncture, and it's heaven n/t

[Sonicwall]

11. Pev alert!

[madinmaryland]

12. *snort* +1,000,000!!!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Lllliibeeyah - Got it! Kthxbai!

[Arkana]

9. I thought it was Labia.

[trumad]

14. Damn it--- you beat me by a couple of seconds....

:-)

[petronius]

25. Quick isn't always good...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. You beat me to it by a good 10 minutes....

[TheCowsCameHome]

37. Beat you to a labia?

It's not like there's only one...........

[gateley]

10. Feel better now? If that's one of your 'biggest' peeves, hang around,

I'm sure the list will grow! :7 :hi:

[trumad]

13. I thought it was spelled Labia?

[Liberal Veteran]

19. No. You are thinking of those pretty blue flowers.

[harun]

15. Actually it is ليبي jackass.

Well, if the the Arabic would display that is what it is.

[Liberal Veteran]

28. So it is....

ampersand pound one six zero four semicolon ampersand pound one six one zero semicolon ampersand pound one five seven six semicolon ampersand pound one six one zero semicolon jackass?

No wonder people keep shortening it to Labya.

[cui bono]

17. While we're at it... The past tense of lead is L-E-D, people. NOT LEAD.

That's the one that kills me on this board. 95% of the time people use "lead" for the past tense of lead.

:)

[cui bono]

20. Oh, I got another one!!!

It's not "should of" it's "should HAVE". People say it together like should've - and I write it like that even though spellcheck doesn't like it, but spellcheck doesn't like spellcheck either so there.

Feels good to get that off my chest!

[Call Me Wesley]

30. I could care less.

I'm glad, though, your gotted it of you're chest. And, LED's, their make good flashlight's!

;)

[cui bono]

39. I'm glad that you do care at least a little then.

:p

;)

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

40. Yes I do.

;) I'm sure guilty of a few misspellings, like their instead of they're or your instead of you're when I hit 'Post message' too early, but then again, English is my third language, and I try to edit it if if I see it.

:hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. They're, Their, There.... To, Too, Two

They're jerks.

The jerks are over there.

The GOP have their own jerks.

But I really don't like the spell-check police, grammar police.....it's a message board. I often type so fast I use words out of context too. Shit happens. :)

[Jamastiene]

46. I though colica Pictonum was the past tense of lead.

:hide:

[Modern_Matthew]

18. Agreed, but it's still a shithole and a money pit. nt

[Thunderstruck]

21. So, you're going to hassle the mods with your mispelling pet peeve? God forbid

anyone on an internet message board misspell or mistype something.

Alert on this:

Lybia! Lybia! Lybia!

Somethin' to getcha goin', sport.


Edit: Corrected Spelling Error!

[Liberal Veteran]

23. Alert! It am spelt LYBERIA!

[petronius]

26. Dammit! When you put it in that big authoritative font, it looks correct to me

Now I'm gonna start spelling it wrong... :(

[Ikonoklast]

24. But it's pronounced as "Bob".

Little known fact there, for those keeping score at home.

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Darn ...

I guess he had it wrong all the time, too:

[Scuba]

29. Ooops. Thanks for your gentle correction. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. THAT was gentle?

;)

[Scuba]

35. Hey, tensions are high. Need to a little extra tolerant. Subtle coaching too ? n/t

[jillan]

32. Thank you - I keep thinking people are posting about a vajayjay.

[Liberal Veteran]

34. I thought vajayjays went away after MTV stopped showing music videos.

[Jamastiene]

50. Nah, they just started getting BeDazzled after that.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_soup/b161861_jennifer_love_hewitts_crystal_cathedral.html

:hide:

[Jamastiene]

51. Actually, I didn't until this OP.

Now, I can't think of anything but that.

:P

[louis-t]

36. Hmm, I am the senior spelling police here and

I haven't seen it speeled wrong yet. Giggety. Worst is still 'loose' for 'lose'. Makes me wince every time.

[TBF]

38. Can we alert for grammatical errors as well?

"I'll be alerting to people who spells that country's name wrong"

lol

[Boojatta]

41. Are you saying ...

"Listen, ya Lib, it's Lib ya"?

[Lucinda]

How do you "alert to" ?

:P

[Call Me Wesley]

42. Lydia oh Lydia, say have you met Lydia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8

Ooops, sorry, wrong thread. ;)

[Jamastiene]

47. Lydia the tattooed lady.

I loved that song.

[Jamastiene]

43. That should be "people who SPELL that country's name wrong."

"Spells" is for singular nouns. "People" is plural. It should be "spell."

THAT is one of my biggest pet peeves. Jeez, person.

[ReggieVeggie]

44. I believe the native language is arab

so it doesn't actually have official english spelling

[Rex]

45. Okay MOM!

Ly Bia?

[Raine]

48. So your "pet peeve" becomes the mod's problem

nice. :eyes:

[Nye Bevan]

49. JEEZ. "alerting to people who spells"? It's "alerting ON people who SPELL".

Any more grammatical errors like that, I'll be alerting.

[Ghost in the Machine]

52. Thanks for your concern....

"From now on, I'll be alerting to people who spells that country's name wrong."

Thanks, again, fir your concern. We always need another posting nanny and spelling nazi around here. Wake me up if you ever post anything important..