I also notice a lot of "eke vs. eek" here. Turns out there's this property called onomatopoeia that escapes many people.

In fairness, "eke" is a rarely used word. No such excuses for they're/there/their though.

Whether it's used rarely or frequently, it's still incorrect and I see it all over the place, which was my point...

This one too is common:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couple.html

From the outside it seems to be a US, West coast affection.

Yeah, that's more "slang dialect" than "error".

Also, did you mean "affectation"?

Mixing up "less" and "fewer" is quite common here as well.