Common Spelling Mistakes

[SpiritofNight]

My personal pet hate is the abbreviation DC. It stands for Difficulty Class, not difficulty check.

"make a DC 20 fortitude save" means "make a fortitude save for which the difficulty is classed at 20". Difficulty check makes no sense.

[Gizeh]

My personal pet hate is the abbreviation DC. It stands for Difficulty Class, not difficulty check.

"make a DC 20 fortitude save" means "make a fortitude save for which the difficulty is classed at 20". Difficulty check makes no sense.

The Saves mouseover text on the character sheet says "difficulty check". On the other hand in D&D DC standsd for "difficulty class", which, like you said, makes more sense.

Let's be generous and say the devs didn't mess it up but sneaked it in to be able to tell the difference between those who know pnp D&D and those who don't.

Edit: On topic:

then/than
there/their/they're

Not necessarily DDO related, but I've seen this quite a few times here in the forums.

[ainmosni]

Sothary.

[Ap0k]

Sothary.

seeing him in here...Ghallandra :P

[bigolbear]

Being a european player, and englishman infact, I have to say this game is choc full of spelling errors from my perspective.

Armor -> Armour.
Color -> Colour.

In all fairness, given that codemasters used to take 2 weeks to do the EU translations and we had even more string table errors than motu at launch I can cope with some one stealing my u's and madly replacing perfectly good s's with z's.

[Daemoneyes]

seems Turbine has a bad habit of misspelling: More Bugs,
each and every time the spell it: Update.

[Handpicked]

Sahuagin

(lol you're looking at it and still not sure if its spelled right)

[donblas]

"Than" spelt as "then".

A lion is bigger THAN a pussycat. This means a lion is bigger when compared to a pussycat. Conveys information.

A lion is bigger THEN a pussycat. This means the lion is bigger and sometime later a pussycat. Nonsense.

AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!! I hates it!!!!

[BDog77]

The one that really kills me is;

per say

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I dunno why, for me it is even worse than rouge....

[ddo.rsmo.pt]

Teh. Meh.

[In_Like_Flynn]

Gwylands Stand

I do this on purpose (in-game, not on the forums), I skip all apostrophes (heh that took a spell check to get right) because it's too close to enter, and it looks kind of dumb to accidentally hit enter mid-word.

It's the added "d" that gets me.

[Archangel666]

"Than" spelt as "then".

A lion is bigger THAN a pussycat. This means a lion is bigger when compared to a pussycat. Conveys information.

A lion is bigger THEN a pussycat. This means the lion is bigger and sometime later a pussycat. Nonsense.

AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!! I hates it!!!!

This one really gets my goat for some reason.

I see it all the time and cringe.

I understand that English isn't always a person's native/first language, but the ones most often guilty of this mistake generally can't use this as an excuse.

[CheeseMilk]

Being a european player, and englishman infact, I have to say this game is choc full of spelling errors from my perspective.

Armor -> Armour.
Color -> Colour.

Don't worry, there's Canadians on this side of the pond that spell correctly, and we're slowly wearing down our American counterparts.

For example, my guildies hardly even make fun of me anymore when I check out the colour of my new armour kit with my neighbours in the harbour.

[Cholgosh]

kobalt

This, for sure. I kept a list for a while: kolbalt, kolbald, colbalt, colbald, cobolt assalt, cobold, cobauld, kobolt assalt, kolbob assult, Kodols New Ringleader, Koblods, kolbold,
kobols assuslt, kobold assauls, kobolt asult, kobad assalt, Kobloid, kobolt assaunt.

[Jatner]

Favor instead of the correct Favour
Armor instead of the correct Armour
Harbor instead of the correct Harbour

**** Americans mangling our language

That said, there's been several occasions when I've accidentally typed qwuest...

[Khatzhas]

"Duel" wielding.

[Auralana7214]

This is a little off topic, but I think it needs to be said.

LEARN YOUR HELPING VERBS, PEOPLE!

I saw. I have seen.

"I seen it," just makes you sound like a dumbass.

I never say anything when I see it on the forums or in game because I don't want to be THAT person, but everytime, I die a little inside.

[JollySwagMan]

From: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...verything.html

[Aurora1979]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

It just drives me mad when people mis-spell it. I mean, its a computer game, you would of thought everyone would practice perfect grammar and spelling at all times! Its shocking.

Yoof of today!!!!

Favor instead of the correct Favour
Armor instead of the correct Armour
Harbor instead of the correct Harbour

**** Americans mangling our language

That said, there's been several occasions when I've accidentally typed qwuest...

Thats true, some more differences

aeroplane- airplane
aluminium- aluminum
colour- color
mummy- mommy

This spell checks putting red lines under all the ones on the right.....

[Effluvium]

The one that really kills me is;

per say

ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I dunno why, for me it is even worse than rouge....

Ha ha, I hear you.

Even worse for me was when I saw someone type "Wallah !"
It took me about 10 minutes to realise he meant "Voila !"