I am just wandering...

[factor-fiction]

Clearly i spend too long on Answerbank as I have noticed how many posts, mainly from new posters, end with the sentence "I am/was just wandering....". A quick check using the AB search box confirmed this.

http://www.theanswerb...=%22just+wandering%22

So I was just wondering why so many people spell 'wondering' incorrectly. I can understand the common mis-spelling of LOSE as LOOSE but not WONDER and WANDER. (On reading some of the posts, though, it did occur to me that some of them seemed very similar in style so I wondered if some are due to someone posting under different names.)

[Baldric]

maybe 'mis-spelling' instead of 'misspelling'

;o)

[jno]

is this who you're thinking of, Baldric?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Pelling

[factor-fiction]

I am guilty of that. I think it looks better though!

[Baldric]

factor,
Tha-t's OK th-en.

jno,
Never heard of her.

[Prudie]

What? not heard of miss pelling?

[missprim]

I was just wondering :-) over to the joke section and found you in Phrases and Sayings.
After reading what you have found out about this I was thinking that as a teacher you would make a very good detective. x

[wildwood]

The loose/lose mixup is understandable, as is its/it's. The misuse of wander/wonder is not, nor is the often 'there' instead of 'their' that pops up quite often too.
It doesn't really worry me, it is the text-speak that annoys me somewhat.

[bednobs]

hi factor there is someone on here who keeps making the same type of posts under different names in order to give "themselves" a chance to answer and tell everyone about their situation again and again. They often use "wandering". I have no idea what on earth prompts them to do it but hey ho!

[bednobs]

and having just clicked on your link, those were the very posts i was referring to!

[factor-fiction]

Hi bednobs- some of the threads from the multi-user namesyou identified recently have been removed but the poster still keep popping up under new names. You've probably spotted the latest one this week. I don't have a problem with it but it still intrigues me