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Because our job entails writing these posts, we're usually pretty good at avoiding these 8 Spelling Mistakes Even Smart People Make. (Well, that, and we have great editors!) But, even if we escape the whole your/you're debacle, we still trip up on a few select words. For instance ...1. Debacle. We totally had to Google the word we just used in the intro. Speaking of which, that's totally ...
2. Embarrassing. Gosh darn it, the double "r" and double "s" get us every time. If we had it our way, it'd be one or the other. Period.
3. Baccalaureate. We think we had one of these in high school, but we couldn't spell it then and we sure as hell can't spell it now.
4. Separate. We finally started spelling it right after our history professor docked points when the majority of class wrote about the "seperation of church and state." Whoooops.
5. Diarrhea. This word is gross and hard to spell, which is why we avoid using it in written or verbal communication at all costs.
6. Elementary. You know, the place that's supposed to teach us this spelling business. Elementry? Elementery? Boo.
7. Misspell. What spelling demons thought this was a funny practical joke?
8. Recommend. Two C's? Two M's? Problem with this one -- they both look right!
What words you do most misspell all the time?
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Tuesday 22 September
By madd9395
Inconvenient - I can never get the spelling right!
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Tuesday 22 September
By Justin
How about dyslexia... "What words you do misspell all the time?" Look at the end of the article.
Tuesday 22 September
By shalie35
That's funny! I have the correct spelling of" inconvenient" on my desk at work and I'm using it now to type this comment.
Tuesday 22 September
By Autumn
The two words I notice people misspell all the time are "too" and "lose". It's NOT, "those pretzels are to salty", it's TOO salty. It's not, "I don't want to loose the game", it's LOSE the game. Bugs me every time, lol.
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Tuesday 22 September
By Megan
Oh. My. God. I know! This drives me absolutely insane! How about when people don't know the difference between then and than.
"I'm better THEN you are."
"I'm going to the store and THAN I'm going home."
WRONG.
Tuesday 22 September
By maria
Three rather intelligent people I know do the "lose" "loose" thing all the time and it bugs the heck out of me!
Sunday 27 September
By George
Hi Autum,
I miss the same words....you should check the punctuation , and . are always inside the quote ." ,"
George
Tuesday 22 September
By Randy Russell
For sure, here's one proofreaders either miss or will change if/when you spell it correctly: canister.
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Tuesday 22 September
By mrmoonlight32
"Regards"... I know how to spell it, but when I'm typing fast it always comes out "regrads"...Best Regrads to All!
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Tuesday 22 September
By Melcalrrt
Necessary and Definitely are the two I always screw up.
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Tuesday 22 September
By Marian
Definitely ("definately") and calendar ("calender")........ALL the time!
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Tuesday 22 September
By Wendy
Me, too! I also mess up calendar and definitely all the time... in fact, just had to think about it now!
Sunday 27 September
By Kat
i HATE it when people can't spell definitely! it's not that difficult!!!
Tuesday 22 September
By Patti
It's & Its...when to use that pesky little apostrophe...
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Tuesday 22 September
By Nancy
What bugs me recently is young people are getting lazy about writing properly. They use "texting language" like UR instead of "you are" etc. One thing that particularly bugs me is when also meaning "you are," they use "your" instead of "you're." I found out that in their uneducated brains "your" READS "you r" or "UR" to them! Lazy kids, see if your English teachers pass you!
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Tuesday 22 September
By shell
sad thing is they more than likely will
Tuesday 22 September
By bormanathome
NANCY, YOU'RE RIGHT. IT REALLY BUGS ME TO HAVE A PERSON TEXTING ON THE BLOGGS. THIS IS ONE VENUE THE WORDS SHOULD BE SPELLED OUT. NOT EVERY TEXTS (ME) AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO READ SOME POSTS - SO I SKIP THEM.
Tuesday 22 September
By taylortimee
Nancy, not all teenagers use text talk while on the computer. I'm 15 and I never use it. I find it absolutely annoying. But I do know several people, even adults, who use it. You would think that adults would know better, that they would want to seem intelligent. Haha, oh well.
Tuesday 22 September
By bill
deers fishes etc.....I have seen them all. One that is bothering is the use of the word 'lit'. When I was in school, we learned there was no such word.....that you used 'lighted'. Now we see 'lit' all the time.
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Tuesday 22 September
By Tracy
The funny thing is Fishes is apparently a word. In high school Biology there was an entire chapter called fishes. I guess when it's referring to multiple species of fish, fishes is actually the proper term.