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.)

[boxtops]

Aha, factor, could you be on to something? just wOndering, the mind is wAndering...

[factor-fiction]

Thanks boxtops- i didn't expect any one to look in Phrases and Sayings this early in the day.

[boxtops]

LOL, I didn't - you popped up in Latest Posts, that's where I saw you!

[RATTER15]

I'm not aware of me making that particular error but I could well see me doing such a thing, I know I make many errors, especially with punctuation and grammar. I know this is often due to my Dyslexia as I simply don't understand punctuation but I live with it, I think most people understand what I'm blabbing on about.

[boxtops]

Indeed, ratter - I've always understood what you're on about - if you hadn't mentioned your condition, I wouldn't have known about it :-)

[starone]

Ooh yes - so they are factor. Incidentally I wonder constantly and also wander quite a lot (in my mind I mean).
Never found any difficulty with your posts RATTER.

[bibblebub]

it's only airheads who wonder lonely as a cloud

[boxtops]

To quote Tolkein:

Not all who w@nder are lost....

[tenrec]

My winders need cleaning! I wonder who I can get to do it. I'll have a wander and see if I can find somebody!

[Mosaic]

if you want people to write, you need to let them express themselves as they normally speak, within reasonable limits. OK, I was just, I wonder etc are all polite verbal tics that ordinary people use to attract the listener's attention.
Wonder / wander, loose / lose are all commonly mixed up. Previous generations would have written like, I say, excuse me etc.
I expect there are quite a few people on AB with mutliple identities, but this is what underemployment and simple technology has done to our society.

[heathfield]

There's definately a lot of mis-speling on AB.

[THECORBYLOON]

Some would say there's alot...

[factor-fiction]

I agree, mosaic- I know that when I ask questions on here I often use the expression " I was just wondering...". My main point was that I was surprised by how often 'wandering' was used instead of 'wondering'. As a teacher I notice a lot of common mis-spellings ('alot' instead of 'a lot', 'loose' instead of 'lose', 'of' instead of 'have', 'after' instead of 'have to') but I hadn't noticed wander/wonder until I came on AB.

[murraymints]

could of..grrrrrr......

[THEMOTLEY1]

I don't think we should concern ourselves too much with the odd spelling or grammatical error, we do after all have the Scots Invigilator monitoring our every keystroke at all times.

[JonnyBoy12]

I see you are doing my job of acting as The Spelling Police. I was about to correct factor30 but what is a few spelling mistakes between friends?

[Tilly2]

^ 'what are'

[factor-fiction]

Hi JonnyBoy12- I know I make typos on here (e.g. i instead of I), and my keyboard sometimes misses letters out, but I can't work out what spelling mistake of mine you were going to correct.

[emmie]

i am just wondering lonely as a cloud, no that's wrong, wandering, ah that's better.

[Sipowicz]

The thread title?