According to a new study, "definitely" is the most misspelled word in English. (This might be the Queen's English, and not American English though, since "manoeuvre" also made the list.) Also on the list were broccoli, phlegm, bureaucracy, indict, consensus, unnecessary, sacrilegious and prejudice.
General opinion surrounding the poll seems to blame text messaging for our inability to spell. You know, because people are always texting the words "bureaucracy" and "sacrilegious." Spell check perhaps could shoulder a little blame, but typing OMG into your phone is not automatically the same thing as not being able to spell words correctly.
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Monday 15 June
By Darrin
I am going to get a t-shirt that says, "Your definately a looser an a idoit. "
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Monday 15 June
By cathie
I'm comming!
Monday 15 June
By Jon
Looser is spelt loser, or it was.
Monday 15 June
By DANNY
A LOOSER AN A IDIOT ? THE WAY YOU WRITE, YOU'RE THE LOOSER !!! LOL
Tuesday 16 June
By Lori
DEFINITELY not definately
Tuesday 16 June
By Dan
Good one, Darrin, I'll haf too rumember that on...
Tuesday 16 June
By jodiihde
Darrin--
Poor communication (especially written) has always been one of my biggest pet peeves.
The t-shirt would be funny because people who write that way wouldn't understand that they were the butt of the joke.
Tuesday 16 June
By Annette
I think Darrin was being sarcastic.
Tuesday 16 June
By tweed b
Who is calling whom an idiot? Or is your only drawback is faulty spelling?
Tuesday 16 June
By AL L.
to darrin, you can't even spell, AL---SO WHO IS STUPID?
Tuesday 16 June
By otrpu
What's an idoit?
Tuesday 16 June
By brainsnbeautee
Let's begin with non-standard English...alphabetically..
.abc...
Correct word is ANYWAY.....not anyways.....ugh!
Tuesday 16 June
By stacey
Freakin' hysterical.
Tuesday 16 June
By kam
guess you should wear it since you spelled "looser" wrong!!!!
Tuesday 16 June
By sherry
darrin alot of it's stile is four the hole their to quitely interpretate.
Tuesday 16 June
By DD
yes...poor Lori didn't get it........yikes!
Tuesday 16 June
By Shirley
My favorite hates are:
commitment
your (for you are - or you're)
Tuesday 16 June
By Kate
I am going to get a t-shirt that says, "Your definately a looser an a idoit. "
Oh, be quite
Tuesday 16 June
By celso
I would have bet that its vs. it's and your vs. you're would be #1 and #2 on the list.
Tuesday 16 June
By donald anderson
I think one of the reasons some people make so many mistakes spelling, especially online, is because they are looking at the keys when they type and not looking up at the screen and a lot of the words they use require a visual recognition in order for spelling to be correct. OUCH! I hurt my brain on that sentence.