Misspelling

[5Cantonas]

I tend make an effort to be as sagacious as I can regarding spelling and grammar. Although there are some words that I have been misspelling my whole life. One word that I continue to spell out incorrectly to this day is "exhist".



Everyone's got one. What's yours?

[Duckster]

Spieck / Speick

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

bear / bare & quiet / quite.

"Getting stung by the spelling bee is like having trouble spelling mistakes". CBJ

[_JP_]

I think the the popular one online for being misspelled is teh.

[professorchaos]

Bureaucracy. I have to force myself not to type beaur ..

[luvmysuper]

guarantee and restaurant

[JellyFox]

Anything with two 'r's - referred, embarrassing, etc.

[inspiringK]

Anything with ie or ei. That rule of "I before E except after C" really is unhelpful at best.

I don't think that I have ever correctly spelled accessibility or businesses correctly by freehand either (or maybe that is iether...)
Did I get my point accross?

[StillShaving]

similiar, scenerio, simplitisic, ...

And for our British members : colour, theatre, ..

[MrDentini]

None, I sphel evrythin coretly.

[Vickers]

Bundesgesundheitminister.

[dpm802]

Separate
Independent
Definitely

[joamo]

Remeber, I always forget the m.

[Shantytownbrown]

nite/tonite...

lazy over two damn letters huh?

but what i don't understand is given that when i type my computer tells me what is spelled wrong, and with the ease of a right click, it can be corrected, but on forums everywhere, no one bothers to fix their spelling errors...??

the one slang term that is often misspelled that i don't get (and is a pet peave of mine) from folks is:

:: siked :: as in "I am siked about the razor i just got at the antique shop"

it's: "PSYCHED" !

(sorry, always wanted to put that out there)

[MrDentini]

when i type my computer tells me what is spelled wrong, and with the ease of a right click, it can be corrected, but on forums everywhere, no one bothers to fix their spelling errors...??

I use Google Chrome which has a spell-checker plugin (multilingual). For example, I'd just written "multilanguage" and the spell checker marked it red and corrected it to "multilingual". Is it right? Is multilanguage really wrong? Who knows.

[luvmysuper]

the one slang term that is often misspelled that i don't get (and is a pet peave of mine) from folks is: :: siked :: as in "I am siked about the razor i just got at the antique shop"

it's: "PSYCHED" !

I think you mean "peeve"

[inspiringK]

the one slang term that is often misspelled that i don't get (and is a pet peave of mine) from folks is:

:: siked :: as in "I am siked about the razor i just got at the antique shop"

it's: "PSYCHED" !

(sorry, always wanted to put that out there)

I think you mean "peeve"

Also, to be fair, whichever town drunkard signed off on the accepted spelling of "p-s-y-ched" was wrong in the first place.

Fish and Potatoes for dinner?

[top]How to spell fish

George Bernard Shaw is said to have written a London Times article¹ when he was campaigning for spelling reform, giving the following example:

• If gh is pronounced f as in enough
• If o is pronounced i as in women
• If th is pronounced sh as in motion
• Then the spelling of fish should be ghoti

[top]How to spell potato

Many people remember way back in 1992, when the then Vice-President Dan Quayle's image was unfairly destroyed by a simple spelling mistake. At the Luis Munoz Rivera School he 'helped' a 12-year old student spell the word potato. Although the student had already spelt² the word correctly, Quayle added an "e" to the end of the word. Not that it matters one jot of course, there are much more important things for a vice-president to worry about; like himself and the president being voted out of office a few months later.
Sew, if you have difficulty spelling sum times, take hart - your not a loan!
Here's yet another alternative spelling of potato:

• If gh is pronounced p as in hiccough
• If ough is pronounced o as in dough
• If phth is pronounced t as in phthisis
• If eigh is pronounced a as in neighbour
• If tte is pronounced t as in gazette
• If eau is pronounced o as in beau
• Then the spelling of potato should be ghoughphtheightteeau

[Mad Man]

Not me personally but I always get annnoyed when folk misuse your and you're...

It's the difference between knowing your sh*t
And knowing you're sh*t...

[Shantytownbrown]

I think you mean "peeve"

You got me on that one! I type corrected, sir!

[luvmysuper]

You got me on that one! I type corrected, sir!

I do that all the time, it's nice to see I'm not the only one!