I admit, I used to think definitely was spelled with an a just until a few months ago, and I kind of feel ashamed for not knowing all these years, being somewhat obsessive with my spelling. But then again, I'm a swede, so I'll just blame it on not being my native language  |
I can relate to your story, I was spelling definitely with an "a" up until a week or two ago, the only difference being my native language is english.
The only typos that really infuriate me are ones made by my fellow Aussies. I hate when they spell words like, colour, honour, humour etc. without the "u". I hate the American-isms mostly. The particular one that really grinds my gears though and it's almost universal among Australian population, is spelling the word gaol as "jail".
I remember a spelling test I had in primary school, where we were asked to spell goal. I spelt the word correctly, the
proper way, but it was marked wrong, the correct spelling was listed as "jail". As a child both my parents were teachers (at my school, we lived in the country) and they used to drill their proper grammar and spelling into my head everyday, so after school I went home an complained. My Dad who was the principal and he literally went fucking ape-shit at my teacher. We ended up having a couple of full classes of how to spell words the Australian way.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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