• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    People misspelling ‘woman’ annoys the hell out of me. It’s literally ‘man’ prefixed by ‘wo’. I don’t know what bizarre process could lead to using ‘women’ instead. And it’s nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The difference is that one is singular and one is plural. “Theres a group of women” and “Theres a singlular woman”

      People do often get the usage wrong but its not being misspelled.

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      3 days ago

      I recall a particular time period in early-ish smartphone history when the stupid thing tried to correct every instance of woman in my emails to “roman” for some weird reason so that one might just be auto-correct gone stupid again.

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      3 days ago

      And it’s nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

      Nah, it’s not that deep–tons of men and women make this particular mistake (writing “women” when intending to use the singular “woman”) for some bizarre reason. I’ve observed this phenomenon for well over a decade. Notably, I’ve never really seen someone write “woman” when they mean “women”, only the other direction. And never with man/men at all. Very odd, specific error.

      Maybe it’s a “should of”-type mistake, I can only guess. But what I know for sure is that it’s a very common mistake, and almost certainly unintentional.