Lexical pet peeves: "ogle" and "groce"

[modernwizard]

This word, which means "to look at flirtatiously or lustfully," is pronounced "OH gull." It rhymes with "mogul." It is NOT pronounced "AH gull." It does NOT rhyme with "goggle," "boggle" or "toggle."

Also I've been seeing a lot of "groce" instead of "gross" on message boards. Actually, it's just on one message board, and I can't tell if the users are purposely misspelling it, or if they just don't know what they're doing. It's a gross error, and it pisses me off. Has anyone else seen this anywhere?

Comments

[sola.livejournal.com]

It's a word filter, actually. If you spell "gross" correctly, it will display as misspelled; just a joke. I think the word filter's output is different for each forum skin.

[blogofstench.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I haven't seen "groce" for "gross" yet. Seems odd that "gross" should trigger an error message: "gross" has several meanings. Perhaps it's in the context?