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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: What words do YOU regularly misspell? | |
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Inspired by the vocabulary thread and a number of recent visits to an online dictionary.
These ones get me all the time and it's rather frustrating as, even when I've got them right, I second guess myself: tomorrow necessary recommend It's the two consonants thing; I always end up with 2 m's and 1 r or 2 c's and 1 s or 2 c's and 1 m. |
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vacuum
vinyl and for some reason I always want to put a double L on the end of: until 
Erm... and all of the above from sleK's list. Spell check is my friend> 
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rythym -rhthym -rhythm 
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| ooh vacuum is a good one! | |
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queue vs cue
quay vs key Connecticut and to this day I say (in my head) that little "i before e, except after c" rhyme 
Whenever I get stuck, I use google, the best dictionary in the world. Just type it in and if it's wrong, google will always come back and say, "did you mean...". I wish I had google growing up. |
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Ahh! I'm not alone!
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My favorite grub: barbecue.
Or is it, bar-b-cue? Oh wait! Barbacue?? Barbeque? (French spelling, maybe? C'est la vie.) No matter how you spell it, tastes gooooooooood. |
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Oh boy...This thread has brought up an issue that just drives me up the wall.
Aisle. Personally, I always spell it right, but I can't count on all my fingers and toes the number of people at my store who spell it "isle". Unless our store is submerged in water, I'm pretty sure it is spelled, "ailse". 
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Say, Kanaka, since you are Canadian, do you know any French? French spelling would drive me nuts...
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Actually, USA#1, french and (queen's) english spelling are most times identical. It is the americanised, sorry, americanized versions that have caused people much grief. 
(and yes, to answer your question, I do know french  )
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disc/disk
Actually, in this case, both are equally correct and equally wrong in their use today. Originally, the word came from the french "disque" and was anglicised to "disc". Then, with the advent of computers and magnetic recording media (hard drives, floppies, etc.) the american version was patented - disk. Later, "disc" was reintroduced into american english by the same field of electronic engineering, as a label for optical recording media (such as CDs, laser discs, etc.). Today, you can and will be scoffed at for the use of either in any context. This has been today's trivia moment.
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Actually the Americanized version, "disk", predates computers by quite a while around my part of the woods. I can remember many a boring day as a teenager pulling a "disk" harrow back and forth over hundreds of acres to break up clods and prepare seed beds. It was a corruption of "disc harrow" which was the actual term and "disk" may have been a purely local version.
That plow took it's name from the the row(s) of rotating circular or disc shaped covex blades mounted on a frame work so that the rows were at a variable angle to the route of travel. This caused the blades to dig into the ground several inches and break it up as you passed. This type of harrow was commonly called a "disk" for short while the word "harrow" was applied to the toothed harrows that were used to put the finishing touches on the seed bed and to lightly plow under the seed after planting. Here's a little one. The ones I worked with cut 20-40 foot swaths. 
Now THAT'S trivial!!! 
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Thanks, Kanaka. Was just curious. English is bad enough sometimes.
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And!!!... the proper pronuciation of compact carries the accent on the P as opposed to the O. comPact not cOmpact |
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sleK, don't mean to nitpick, but the accent is on "a" and not on "p" in "compact". It is quite impossible to have an accent on a consonant. [com-pAct] not [com-P-act]
Nofsdad, there was a serious lack of ukulele music from your post.
ukulele - now there's a word you don't get to spell every day. Most commonly misspelt/misspelled as ukalele Last edited by kanaka on Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:48 am; edited 1 time in total |
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You're correct, my bad. Back to school with me!
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Off to school with me Back to school for me Sorry, can't help it, the persnickety gene's grabbed a hold of me today it seems.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:57 am Post subject: | |
My point exactly! 
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| One of my worst ones is actually misspell along with any other word starting with mis and in which the second syllable starts with S. | |
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Confucius (most commonly misspelt confucious)
It would seem that I've been a vip member in good standing of that "most commonly" club I'd just mentioned. You think you're smart and then one day you realize that all along, in comparison to yourself, you've been making Wile E Coyote look like Confucius. 
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Say, Nofs, just out of curiosity...is that you in that picture?
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Oh gosh no. They hadn't invented cameras yet back when I was working on the ranch. We still etched pictures into clay tablets with a sharp piece of bone. I got that picture from an internet ad for a tractor company. |
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| mine is generally every 10th or 12th word - I only notice AFTER I submit something and then everyone gets to either read my mistakes or note how many times I have edited a post - whenever I type a letter or whatever, I have to make a hardcopy to read to note the mistakes - MrDD calls me the paralysis of analysis | |