Most common TT spelling mistakes

Check your brackets my friend!

Completely off-topic, but as we are speaking about amusing things on TT - the other day, someone added to a two-year old thread I had replied to and it popped up in my Recent Threads list. When I read it, that last reply made me laugh (you need to read the OP first).

[http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?messageID=16978960#16978960]

Columbia instead of Colombia grates my nerves but the one that really really annoys me is Manhatten instead of Manhattan.

In tourist brochures, 'sights' instead of 'sites'.

Nothing to do with travel as such, but it drives me mad when I see 'it's" instead of 'its" and vice versa, and I am talking about in newspaper articles, and I don't mean in tabloids.

Piaczka, are you sure about your sights vs sites? The usual term is sightseeing. I think "sites" has become common because of websites and words like that.

One regular on W Europe systematically asks what kind of "sites" people are interested in when he sees it -- campsites, etc.

My dictionary tells me it's "sights" for tourist attractions.

I do not mind "sites" and "sights", when used properly...

I sometimes have to stop & think if I mean a site+ (location) or a +sight (something to see). I do object to "web sights" unless you are admiring spiders in action.

Someone posted on the US branch that "I would be boarded to death lying whole day on the beach." I have no idea why he would be so offensive that surfers would want to attack him.

How could I forget!

He's going through a faze.
It doesn't phase me. (or, it's doesn't phaze me.)