I’m 87, a mostly retired newspaper copy editor, and apparently turning into compost on my Wyze scale. I don’t usually ask for a report from my scale, but today, the data collected for the month so far was under the heading of “Body Compostition Data”. That might be depressing to other older folks.
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I am on a couple of automotive forums too. I see frequently people typing “I need new BREAK pads”.
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I can think of funny responses to that, but I learned early on it’s impolite to make fun of people on a forum. But the people who run the forum, I figure, can take a little gentle teasing.
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I reported that last year in a fix-it-friday topic:
I’m still waiting on a fix for that and some other issues with the workbooks that the app’s scale plugins creates and e-mails. 
Cadillac Bro Ham
Cadillac converter
Pontiac Goole (6000LE)
Blinkers - they are turn signals
As mentioned by. @StevenA BREAKS
And it is not an emergency brake. It is a parking brake and is used to lock the brakes when parking. If you use the parking brake to stop the car, the back end will come around and kiss the front end. How do you think drifting works?
There are plenty more that I have forgotten.
Oh, a ‘quick question’ is usually not .
@bobball my mother was an English teacher. I have the Na@i grammar and spelling curse. So many errors in print. How many people approved the error?
I send emails when I see errors. Most times the error is corrected.
Here are two examples
grammar - wasn’t should be weren’t
spelling - commerical should be commercial
A good friend of mine is a retired English teacher. She once told me she had to write a referral on a high school student. In the description she stated this was the first time she heard the F-word used as a noun, adjective and a verb in one sentence.
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what 
It can become one, though not intended for that purpose. They say you can pulsate the hand brake on and off in order to stop safely. I know I will try if my brakes fail.
English is a tough language, I have heard from others. Just the other day, I learned the difference between blond and blonde. Somehow I missed that one. It is an amazing language.
See this about Eggcorns…
Just blame everything on autocorrect 
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Some of my best friends are fly. 
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Sorry to revive the thread but I happen to see one misspelling I really dislike; loose for lose.
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A couple more words people will sometimes misuse, Affect and Effect.
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Trying to correct reporters at a suburban Detroit newspaper was a difficult battle. With “affect” and “effect” I’d sometimes put all four in a paragraph and send it to the reporter. Something like this;
“The American affected a French accent, one so horrible it effected a great rage in his Parisian acquaintance. The effect of such uncontrolled rage would affect what might have been a fine friendship.”
It didn’t work very well.
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Well I don’t like to type the word Opossum. I just use Possum even though there is a difference. I also don’t like Racoon/Raccoon. 
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Here are a few
How many people saw these and approved them? The TOBBACCO sign was up for two months before they fixed it. How the heck did the extra B get approved?
Here are more signs you may enjoy.
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Years ago, a local chain launched a new sandwich, and part of their marketing involved radio ads with jingle done in a rap style. One day I drove by one of their restaurants where they had the marquee-type sign out front, and the message said, “WE’RE RAPIN’ SOURDOUGH PHILLY CHEESESTEAK.”
Yeesh. If that’s what they were doing to the sandwich, then I don’t even want to know what they were doing to the fries.
Be kind to your sandwich, it sustains you.
Thank God for Subway and the plastic gloves. 
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