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Words that we tend to spell wrong - Leigha - Dec 1, 2020 For some reason, ''similar'' is one such word for me. No clue why, but I tend to add another "i" after the "l'' like this --> s-i-m-i-l-i-a-r. Accommodate is another pesky one. Earlier, I was in the process of replying to a client's email and used the word ''accommodate.'' But, my misspelled version had just one "m." I was like, why is there a line under this word? lol I consider myself a decent speller, so it's odd that some of the simplest words trip me up. If you have any, please share so I don't feel so silly. RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Secular Sanity - Dec 1, 2020 Curiosity, unfortunately, thorough and several others that I can't recall at the moment. My biggest issue is leaving out small words when I'm typing. RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Leigha - Dec 1, 2020 (Dec 1, 2020 10:40 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Curiosity, unfortunately, thorough and several others that I can't recall at the moment. Ha Curiosity!! Yesss! That is an odd one, too. Let’s see - commitment and committed. I tend to do the opposite with these two, commitment with two t’s and committed with one. Every. Single. Time. -_- RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - C C - Dec 1, 2020 (Dec 1, 2020 10:03 PM)Leigha Wrote: If you have any, please share so I don't feel so silly. Due to it being caused by memory going haywire these days, which words become a problem for me is kind of erratic, may vary from time to time. Some days I get _X_ right and then on others it's like slipping into a parallel universe where the ghost of spelling past has a completely different history. I may literally sit stupefied that _X_ has always been written like that -- I can actually recall (false?) episodes where dictionaries testified the very opposite. Makes me sympathize with that weird little lady in the nursing home who beckons people to come over, smiling, and then slugs them in the kisser. I'd be angry with everybody, too, if I got transported wholesale to an alternate world where everything is different in the most irritating of ways. Quote:For some reason, ''similar'' is one such word for me. That may be a temperamental one for me, too, especially when -ly is added to the end. I once never relied on spellcheckers and grammar apps and still have a partial habit of ignoring their error outcries (much to my woe). Can't come to grips with the reality of no longer having a mind. RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Leigha - Dec 1, 2020 (Dec 1, 2020 11:01 PM)C C Wrote:Literally laughed out loud at your entire post. ''Ghost of spelling past...'' lol!(Dec 1, 2020 10:03 PM)Leigha Wrote: If you have any, please share so I don't feel so silly. Yes, it's quite infuriating to ''know'' how to spell a word, yet spell it wrong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd3gpg8 Yay, I don't feel that bad anymore; accommodation made the list! RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Leigha - Dec 2, 2020 Today’s trouble word: questionnaire Two n’s But why? It looks perfectly fine with one. RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Leigha - Dec 21, 2020 This week's mishap: ''occurrence'' Two r's RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Zinjanthropos - Dec 21, 2020 My pc wants to correct me whenever I type favorite or neighborhood, it prefers u between the o & r. Is one version old English and the other American spelling? RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - C C - Dec 21, 2020 (Dec 21, 2020 06:28 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: My pc wants to correct me whenever I type favorite or neighborhood, it prefers u between the o & r. Is one version old English and the other American spelling? Safari(?) and your OS have it covered, I guess. In contrast, I remember a Firefox user complaining just the opposite: That his browser had American English set by default without a Canadian English dictionary/language pack as an option. Mozilla directed him here to find the one to install. (EDIT: Looking back, he may have been an American who was writing for Canadians, so the latter language-pack probably would already be pre-installed for a Northerner who downloaded the browser.) Canadian English seems to be an unstable blend of both UK and US spellings -- with regional eccentricities, deviating paperwork and newspaper contexts, and Other thrown in. Maybe you live too close to the border, if there's a wrangle with spellchecker sometimes. Why Canadian English is unique: "Canadian spelling is, as mentioned, a tug-of-war between the British and the Americans – jail but centre, analyze but colour. Because Canada is bilingual, French may also have an effect. For example, many signs and labels and institutional names are in French and English, and it’s easier if you can press a word into double service: Shopping Centre d’Achats." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Orthography Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American conventions, the two dominant varieties, and adds some domestic idiosyncrasies. Spelling in Canadian English co-varies with regional and social variables, somewhat more so, perhaps, than in the two dominant varieties of English, yet general trends have emerged since the 1970s. • Words such as realize and paralyze are usually spelled with -ize or -yze rather than -ise or -yse. • French-derived words that in American English end with -or and -er, such as color or center, often retain British spellings (colour and centre). • While the United States uses the Anglo-French spelling defense and offense (noun), most Canadians use the British spellings defence and offence. (But defensive and offensive are universal across all forms of English.) • Some nouns, as in British English, take -ice while matching verbs take -ise – for example, practice and licence are nouns while practise and license are the respective corresponding verbs. (But advice and advise are universal.) • Canadian spelling sometimes retains the British practice of doubling the consonant -l- when adding suffixes to words even when the final syllable (before the suffix) is not stressed. Compare Canadian (and British) travelled, counselling, and marvellous (more often than not in Canadian while always doubled in British) to American traveled, counseling, and marvelous. In American English, this consonant is only doubled when stressed; thus, for instance, controllable and enthralling are universal. (But both Canadian and British English use balloted and profiting.) • In other cases, Canadian and American usage differs from British spelling, such as in the case of nouns like curb, tire, and aluminum, which in British English are spelled kerb, tyre, and aluminium... (history in spoiler) RE: Words that we tend to spell wrong - Zinjanthropos - Dec 21, 2020 I just mix it up. People understand. Put it down as the evolution of language. The only time I want the words spelled correctly is on legal parchment,otherwise I don't care. My wife who's of Dutch ancestry received her university graduation diploma with her surname spelled wrong. She kept it, she has a sense of humour( I did not type the U in that last word). My one daughter when she was in Grade 5 or 6 , I can't remember exactly, was part of a gov't experiment. Her class and another one somewhere in Toronto were selected to learn the language phonetically. Whatever they wrote, as long as it was understood, was acceptable. The gov't ended the experiment after couple years but it left my daughter disadvantaged when it came to high school and university. Many a parent/teacher meeting night included me trying to explain to the educator why my daughter's spelling was bad. So when she went to university we decided that any papers she wrote would be sent to me for editing. I just made it legible, clear and concise for the marker/reader. Thank goodness for computers or I don't know if she'd have made it. When she graduated I bought her a "Hukt on Fonix werkt fer me" T-shirt. She has a great job and her spelling has improved over time. Just be glad Mark Twain didn't get his way: Quote:A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling What in the world does xrewawt spell? |