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I haven’t seen people misspelling advice, or misunderstanding chest of drawers.
Is this in reference to something?
I constantly see people asking for "advise." It's a pet peeve, I will admit. I also frequently hear people saying "draws" instead of drawers. Sorry for my venting, I will see myself out.
In some accents and dialects, "draws" is exactly what you get, so it's not any more of a mispronunciation than "terlet" for "toilet" or any of thousands of other cases.
The issue isn't how it's pronounced. The issue is how it's then spelled based on embarrassing guesswork never corrected.
And I blame the community for that. No one said "Marlon, what the fuck is a 'terlet', and did you pay attention when we were in school together?"
You can pronounce the letters how your neighbourhood, region, cult or clique dictates; just write them correctly.
#butEnglishEvolvesBecausePopularKids people can fuck themselves.
It's laziness. Any text program worth using marks that usage as a grammar error. People are ignoring the blue underline. There's nothing you can do about people who ignore the blue underline.
Gotcha. I just didn’t understand what you were even venting about!
At least as often as "advise" in place of "advice," I see people asking for "advices."
(I haven't seen issues with "chest of drawers" or even "drawers" though.)