I want to recommend Judy Parkinson: i before e except after c and also My Grammar and I or should that be me: By Caroline Taggart and J. A. Wines.
These books are full of funny English rhymes that I remember as a child when I was growing up, either said by teacher's or family.
I hope you look them up as they are good.
masterbation rather than masturbation! Drives me nuts! ( The spelling not the act!! ;)
Then and than
That one gets even me.
If you can't fuck yourself ... who can you fuck?
Thanks for the listing, I had the areolae misspelled. I have now re-edited my latest story and updated my dictionary.
Another is breast - breasts
But I have other words I still question, "pre-cum". Is that right?
My pet peeve is saying 'of' instead of 'have' - for instance 'I should of' should be 'I should have'
If I misspell something it is most likely because I am dyslexic. If you message me about it I would like to go back and correct that.
Even though I am dyslexic I notice a lot of misspellings, typos and incorrect grammar in stories.
(I had to edit the hell out of the above 2 lines of text before posting.) Really! HA
Another pair for the list, because I always get them muddled up:
Know and now
Of/off - drives me nuts to see that a man had been sucked of instead of off, for example.
Woman/women - this one I've been seeing quite frequently on here, in the forums mostly. It drives me nuts to see people referring to what should be a singular as a plural. Get it right: Woman = singular, women = plural, grr.
As a British, native English speaker and English graduate, I am so happy to have found this forum and this paticular topic.
I admit that I am annoyingly pedantic, particularly when it comes to such as the mixing of "then" when it should be "than", the confusing of "there, "their" and "they're", "to" and "too" and the horrendous use of "of" instead of "have".
Some of these appear to be more used in American English, and some are more frequently in British use.
Oh, and I am completely with Gurlyboy. I also proofread everything. Sad, aren't we?
It's time someone called for the bouncers...
Will, all this sounds write too me.
advice/advise saw it when I was lurking about (I see it everywhere, actually) and it makes me grind my teeth and feel like correcting them.
Loose and lose...drives me nuts. And to, too and two is one of my biggest pet peeves, I cringe when I see it and yet when I'm rushing I still do it. Recently, I've seen a lot of breath and breathe.
It's I take a deep breath, not I take a deep breathe.
I breathe naturally, not I breath naturally.
But hey, we all make mistakes.
) fit right in here. 
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