A useful(?) list of what some editors claim are the 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English. Read the full post.
Nov 8
2008
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Again not a spelling thing, but at the bottom of the page for misspelled words, there was a link for a list of commonly mispronounced words/phrases. And while some of the entries were real mispronunciations (nucular for nuclear and doggy-dog world for dog-eat-dog world), other ones were just pretentiously looking down on people’s accents, like athelete for athlete. As long as you know how to spell it, who cares if you add an extra breath to make the “thl” sound easier to say.
And there is nothing wrong with correcting people’s grammar in written work. If it’s formal writing it should use proper English (though I will also correct people in conversation). And as for stationary/stationery, “stationery” that you write on has an -er, just like “paper”.
I don’t have a problem with it – but at work I’m constantly seeing the word “received” written as “recieved” – bugs the crap out of me when I see it! I even received an e-mail from a major company last week that had it written incorrectly – twice!!
Too many bugaboos to list! Apostrophe abuse in plurals is a big one. Another I see a lot lately is the past tense of “lead” – lots of folks spelling it “lead” rather than “led”. Also it’s become almost universal to misspell “definite” as “definate”. I continue the fight, though. Oh and Martha, it may also depend on where you are – in Canada or UK it would be “modelling”.
I had a 5th grade teacher that hammered us week after week with the word receive. Many, many years later, I still think of her when I see someone spell it incorrectly. I am not a bad speller, but I have some sort of dyslexia and have to be careful when I type because I tend to flip letters around. Not so much when I write though. I always struggle with the word rhythm. I always forget there are two h’s. I even had to check my spelling on it here.
I have problems with effect vs. affect. I have to look it up every time to make sure that I’m using it correctly. I have numerous pet peeves, one being more grammar than spelling. In the midwest I hear, “I should’ve went…”. It angers me so much that I will correct the person – I don’t care how snobby I come across. And, if there are any spelling, punctuation and grammar erros in my post – I do apologize!
I can spell most of the words on the list. Woo! However, I’m not sure why, but “restaurant,” “rhythm” & “decision” always get me.
yep- i always had trouble with conscience. Until I broke it down into syllables: Con-Science.
Separate, vacuum, and broccoli. Or is it brocolli?
2mrow, or is it tomorrow ?
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