What percentage of yahoo readers don't know "and" isn't the same word as "an?"

[MrsKirkley]

I often wonder that when I'm reading comments about someone being "and" idiot or someone making so much "and" hour.

[Mz Pip]

1. Sometimes it's just sloppy typing

I know I should carefully proofread everything I post but sometimes I don't and end up with typing errors or reversed letters that result in very weird auto correct.

I don't automatically assume someone doesn't know the difference when I have made similar errors myself. People don't always proofread.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Sloppy or force of habit.

I do that sort of thing all the time. If I don't proff read twice, I'll miss something.


See? I hit letters twice like that often. I am also slightly dyslexic, and I will be typing fast and spell a word like....well...WORD, but it will come off my fingertips as "wrod" or even "dowr".

Adding "d" to the end of "an" is just a force of habit thing for me.

The edit was for a misspelling I missed! Work instead of word.

[patricia92243]

2. What has Yahoo got to do with it????

[Curmudgeoness]

3. If you have ever read many comments on yahoo news items

you will not ask that question. They are probably one of the worst for spelling and grammar on the intertubes.

[Logical]

4. Shit, more grammar whining. n-t

[kestrel91316]

5. Far too many. But they are yahoos, so it figures.

[treestar]

6. Same number that think a looser is someone who

did not win.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Frequently when typing on and ipad with its awful keyboard...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Same percentage that are under 13, I suspect