For Sell?

to be honest I have never seen that before, and it doesn't bother me because english is not the first language of many people in our country. They are the smarter ones in my view, they at least can be understand in a second and sometimes third language whereas most english people I know speak only english or english and french if they live in Quebec.

its amazing how many north americans english is not that great. i find people put their spell check into play too many times on WORD and are not learning the proper way to spell and pronouce things. i imagine it will get worse too.

Well, it is better that they aren't spelling it sail.. Sometimes people get confused it doesn't really bother me since sometimes I am one that accidentally writes it sell instead of sale.

I have not yet run into people who don't know the difference between sell and sale. It would only bother me if the person who writes was a person with English as a second or third language. What bothers me is when people don't know the difference between borrow and lend. I cringe when someone says " I borrowed him $100". "I borrow, you lend. Again it only bothers me when people who are native English speakers mix up the two.

I get a lot spam selling all sort of stuff, but I have a filter and most of them go into the spam folder, which I delete every day after having a quick check that there are not any important e-mails in there. A peeve of mind is telephone sales. I have listed with CPS (call preference service) here in the U.K. but they are still phoning me. They try to sell me insurance, which I already have. Double glazing, which I also already have and other stuff like "you've won a competition!" Yeh right!!! It can be very annoying, but I have an answer machine switched on all the time now and can vet my callers. - Derek

I've given up on Americans speaking their language properly. It's become so twisted and deformed that even the schools don't teach proper grammar anymore. I would say I have something for sale or something to sell. It could also be the way the local words are pronounced, making them think "sale" is "sell". Last winter I was sitting on my porch enjoying the night when a teen came by and said "are you ill?" and I said no, I was just watching the snow. He was really perplexed and it turned out that since it was dark and I had a hood on and it was near Halloween he had asked if I was "real". His accent made it sound like "ill". He would probably spell real as rill, who knows? So maybe they are spelling words the way they sound? America has been so dumbed down it's scary.

Yes, it irritates me no end. That and "then" and "than" getting mixed up. Can't they tell by listening to it which is which? Seems strange to me! LOL

I tried to respond here yesterday and it did not work, I think. If I did respond before, forgive me, I was ill. I am really bothered by that kind of misplaced usage. There are some others, but I only think of them when I see them. At that point I want to be very rude and point it out, but I do not.

Hi Ldy, I encounter this also and I hope this post will help people distinguished the difference of both words! It made me wonder sometimes, maybe also I have tried doing this before!

I know what you mean!!! I think it is ridiculous that some people with an education cannot grasp how to spell easy words! Maybe we need to send them back to elementary school. Oh and another thing that gets to me is how people do not know the difference between there, their, and they're...it isn't that difficult!

The one I see most often (including here in Mylot) is the word "then" instead of "than." And many of these people are self-proclaimed writers. For example "would you rather do this then that" and so forth. I understand a mistyped word now and then, but when they use the incorrect word every time it shows that they actually think is is the right word. Drives me nuts.

Hi Ldyjarhead - Yessssss... it does bother the heck out of me too! But!... BIG but here, I try not to let it get too me too much because I know that many people living here in the United States do not have English as their first language. However, if I know they were raised here, went to school here with English as their primary language then, yes... it bothers me very very much! I do not understand how people can actually graduate from high school and not know proper English! Something is horribly wrong with our education system.

Haha!~I know what you mean as sometimes it can be very irksome, haha!~I'm for "FOR SALE", well at least I'm not for sale as I'm already taken, haha!~Well, what can I say? We learn the Queen's English so "For Sale" it is!~

Yes they must know the difference between sale and sell

I know what you mean.Every night on the news the announcers say something out of grammar.At least from the grammar that I learned anyway.Has the english language changed? It drives me nuts too,especially when I am homeschooling my daughter and she picks up saying something wrong from the news.Then I have to correct her on it and she gets confused,wondering why we are talking differently then these supposed intelligent people on the news.

I say its for sale not for sell. I will also say an item is being sold for a certain amount. or i wish to sell such and such an item. Seeing a add that reads "for sell" drives me bonkers and less likely to make contact to make a purchase.

Well you could say you have something to sell, that would be OK. Or you could say I have something for sale. It is just a matter of changing it from to or for. I know grammatically my sentencing was all wrong there but I think you know what I am trying to say. I am pretty sure I say it correctly if not my wife the grammer queen would be sure to correct me.

do you mean that even some americans who's first language is english sometimes get confused with these two simple words. that is really unbelievable. i don't commit mistake on these two words. anyways, i think that there are only few words that is confusing to many people. so i think just a little learning will help them if they will bother to know the difference.

I had to stop and say hi , and giggle a bit at this. It is very comic sometimes on how people see differnt languages. Much

If it bothers you, you will be bothered forever. Between the people who slept most of the way through school and got their diploma because they showed up, and people who use English as a second language, you will get such a range of English skills that proper differentiation of similar words is sometimes a pleasant surprise. At least the ESL people who are learning a second language have an excuse and should be commended for their effort, but for native English speakers to not bother learning their own language properly has to be some form of laziness, or maybe it is the education system that is at fault.