There have been some excellent examples of which words drive them, and me also, nuts when spelled/spelt or pronounced incorrectly.
One that always annoys me is when people pronounce etcetera as eccetra. Drives my insane!
Wiv/wiff instead of with is another pet hate.
Having bitched about that, here is a great example that maybe we are too pedantic?
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Still legible and yet completely misspelled/misspelt. 
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