• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    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.

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      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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      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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      This type of thing sometimes happens to me when I’m writing a comment on my phone. The using a wrong version of a word, not the rampant misogyny. Its usually from changing how I wanted to structure the sentence, like changing tense or deciding to make something singular or plural, and not noticing that I missed updating one of the words.