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Words you didn't know you were misspelling

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Gwoomy, Mar 31, 2019.

  1. Gwoomy

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    Anything that, for some reason, you used to misspell thinking you were right?

    I have some. Like "wich" – I remember wondering why it kept getting corrected as "which". lol.
    Or "business", which I pronounce "buisness" and used to spell this way..
    And "lightning". I still keep on using it instead of "lighting".
     
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  2. Jupjami

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    I spell "religion" correctly, but when I focus on it I feel like it should be "relegion", so there's that xaxaxa

    Besides those, when in a rush I add 'e' to words that shouldn't have it especially if it ends in ~ain, like explain -> explaine and remain -> remaine

    And sometimes I forget the final 'e', like decide -> decid and love -> lov
     
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  3. FireSpartan5

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    I often misspell words like ‘friend’ as ‘freind’ and ‘religious’ as ‘religous’. I don’t even know why at this point.
     
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  4. Neb

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    I’ve misspelled definitely as “defiantly” ever since I first heard the word.
     
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  5. Azazel

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    Every day I make sure to thank google chrome for spellchecking everything I type because I am honestly illiterate.
     
  6. Geroniny

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    I Have A Lot Of Cases Related To This But Luckily, I Have 'Grammarly Add-On' To Help To Check The Spelling Plus Grammer And Others.
     
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  7. Dawn

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    I don't misspell words anymoar.

    But seriously, I had spelling, grammar, and punctuation drilled into me from a very young age, and outside of typos I don't make spelling mistakes. There are plenty of words I don't know how to spell, but they're not ones I tend to use or hear in conversation...mostly scientific words that don't spell how they sound.

    That said, I've found out some interesting things about the way some words are spelled that technically speaking means I am misspelling them. I often use "-ise" instead of "-ize" and, whilst that is the more favoured of the two in British English, the "-ize" variant, which is the only recognised (recognized?) way to spell these words in the US, was the original way to spell these words, and closer to their Greek roots. British English does allow you to use both - although you're only supposed to use one or the other in writing for consistency - but the "-ise" variation is actually the less correct of the two, historically speaking. But it is the one I typically use when I'm not consciously thinking about it...and I rarely think about it. xD

    If I lived in America I'd be in spelling hell though, because I'd absolutely refuse to drop the "u" out of words like "colour" because that is how to spell it, and that is that.
     
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