Why do theist often drop the letter s when referring to atheists?

[I_am_not_mafia]

Lol, I'm pretty sure this was just a typo Mathilda...

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I can now add Huggy to the list.

....pretty sure this is a typo as well

But many theists do always drop the S, far too many times to be called a typo. Yet no one ever admits to it or realises that they are doing it.

I can see that it could be a typo for many though because the word atheist ends with a sort of s sound, but I never see atheists make the same typo when they mean theists.

I think it's more likely that people have unknowingly picked up the habit from reading anti-atheist literature.

[Catholic_Lady]

Lol, I'm pretty sure this was just a typo Mathilda...

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....pretty sure this is a typo as well

But many theists do always drop the S, far too many times to be called a typo. Yet no one ever admits to it or realises that they are doing it.

I can see that it could be a typo for many though because the word atheist ends with a sort of s sound, but I never see atheists make the same typo when they mean theists.

I think it's more likely that people have unknowingly picked up the habit from reading anti-atheist literature.

I'm not denying that some may have a habit of using the word "atheist" in certain contexts. But it's obvious that these 2 examples you provided are typos lol. Grammatical errors. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.

[SaStrike]

Never noticed. I'm sure I will now and I'm sure it will bother me. Thaanks.

[mlmooney89]

To be fair, atheist is a tricky word to spell if you're not familiar with it.  The e and the i can flip around pretty easily.  In general though, pointing out someone's grammar/spelling is generally an irrelevant, sometimes dickish move, unless it's genuinely hindering the communication of ideas/points.

Oh I am a fucking savage and I will admit it. I won't do it on the internet (autocorrect is a real bitch) but for two reasons 1) I helped a past employer because it was their business page and an obvious mistake (accept vs except) that could hurt their business so I messaged them and just said hey just fyi you meant accept, by saying except you are saying you don't take it. They thanked me and that was it. 2) If they call someone stupid, a retard, dumb, uneducated, etc while they have even one grammar/spelling issue I just lay into them. You aren't going to call someone stupid by saying "your stupid" and get away with it around me.

My sister and I will correct my mom and other sister's grammar all. the. time. Mostly cause it pisses them off lol We've both been called a grammar Nazi on more than one occasion. I accept it.

So similar to saying “gawd”, “jeebus”, and adding “tards” as a suffix to everyone you don’t agree with.  Or does that expand it not its own special category of assholishness?  Just curious?

Also, what you think you hear, seems different than typing it out.

Unless it's the early 2000's and spelling things like dawg, gawd, kewl, wut, etc are popular and you switch it from the Copperas Cove Bulldogs to The Dawgs and then spend $80k for rights to that name and still have it in 2018 and paid again to keep it another 10 years. Just in case ya can't let go of an era and want the entire state to think your school district is a bunch of illiterate morons. Then you aren't an asshole right? Right? Oh wait no you are still an asshole. Sorry /end rant.

[Angrboda]

I don't mind people who leave off the 's' so much as people who capitalize it unnecessarily, or reverse the 'i' and the 'e' to spell it "athiest."

[Whateverist]

I don't mind people who leave off the 's' so much as people who capitalize it unnecessarily, or reverse the 'i' and the 'e' to spell it "athiest."

Makes me wonder which of us is the ath-most go all.

[Neo-Scholastic]

In Western Europe during the Middle Ages, almost no one read alone silently (doing so could be legacy of monastic life is one theory) Otherwise, most vernacular reading was performative, i.e. read out loud to an audience. Spelling varied depending on the dominant accent. That is presumably why English has so many weird spelling rules and exceptions. A person wasn't truly and duly educated unless they could spell a word three different ways.