Words that you tend to misspel mispell misspell

[Ivan Seeking]

Ugh, I just realized that I've been spelling devastation as devestation. And the worst of it is that I was doing this on purpose!

Other times, it seems like my fingers have a mind of their own. I often fire off a post while thinking it correctly, and seemingly seeing it correctly, but not typing it correctly. I look back later and wonder who the heck typed that! I know part of the problem is that I need to have my eyes checked. I may need more than reading glasses.

A lot of words seem to get dropped as well. At the time I thought they were there, but upon viewing later I find holes in my sentences.

Maybe it's mainly a vision thing, not sure. Late edits can contribute to the dropped words problem, and I do a lot of that as I think things through a little more.

 

[hypatia]

I nearly always leave the e, off of before. I'm not sure why. I know I have many common type-o's and short cuts, like suposta. But the e..eludes me.

 

[cobalt124]

Can't spell diarrhoea. I think I've just got it right for the first time ever. My main problem at the moment isn't spelling though. It's hitting the right keys in the right order. Getting old.

 

[waht]

I usually botch words that end in -uous like "continuous" the 'u' and 'o' get repeated and swapped.

 

[cobalt124]

Oh, and there's the exceptions to the "i before e, except after c" rule, can't think of one, but they always throw me.

 

[Gokul43201]

Can't spell diarrhoea. I think I've just got it right for the first time ever.

Heh. An American might disagree.

 

[cobalt124]

Heh. An American might disagree.

A Brit might, I'm not so sure now.

 

[Evo]

I often see rediculous when it should be spelled ridiculous. reoccurring when they mean recurring

I seem to misspell words a lot lately, words I know how to spell.

 

[S_Happens]

My main problems are with exceptions to "i before e, except after c" and sometimes the differences in suffixes "ence" and "ance."

 

[rootX]

Ugh, I just realized that I've been spelling devastation as devestation. And the worst of it is that I was doing this on purpose!
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Maybe it's mainly a vision thing, not sure. Late edits can contribute to the dropped words problem, and I do a lot of that as I think things through a little more.

I think it might be due to the lack of focus. When I have too many things on my mind, I drop a lot of words that I think were there. I hate to drop words like 'not'. I go back and wonder what the hell I just wrote. Sometimes, I wouldn't notice what I dropped even when I review it second time. But, speaking it out loud always helps. I might need new glasses also but I never thought about that.

 

[lisab]

I think this thread is unneccessary. Unecessary. Unneccesary. Whatever, it's not needed.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Nun off this wood bee a problem if ewe jest used a spell chequer like eye dew.

 

[nismaratwork]

Tomorrow used to get me, then oddly, I just split it into: "to the morrow", which apparently bypasses one of the screwier circuits in my brain.

I'm more used to thinking faster than I type... about 80% of my writing occurs in editing, and I rarely if ever edit here (not a shock to anyone familiar with me)... for spelling there is a checker.

 

[Pythagorean]

Words with ie. I can't be bothered to recite that stupid poem.

 

[nismaratwork]

Words with ie. I can't be bothered to recite that stupid poem.

I before E, except after C, but now we have spellcheck so we all are FREE!

 

[russ_watters]

Rediculous.

 

[nismaratwork]

Rediculous.

Sheeriously?

 

[Proton Soup]

I think this thread is unneccessary. Unecessary. Unneccesary. Whatever, it's not needed.

that's my big one. and any others with a lot more consonants than necessary. like accommodate. accommodate.

 

[FrancisZ]

Rithym...Rythme...Rythem?

But no: it's Rhythm, unfortunately. God, it gives me a headache.

And then when you ask someone, they're like: "You mean rhyme?""Y" has no business being a vowel, only part of the time either. That's total bull crap.

 

[nismaratwork]

Rithym...Rythme...Rythem?

But no: it's Rhythm, unfortunately. God, it gives me a headache.

And then when you ask someone, they're like: "You mean rhyme?"


And "Y" has no business being a vowel, only part of the time either.

Same here! And.. Assymetry... I always try to make it Asymmetry.

 

[FrancisZ]

Same here! And.. Assymetry... I always try to make it Asymmetry.

Boy, but does that have room for a joke. It's literally written all over it.

But it does actually look less offensive, with the single s.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Tomorrow used to get me, then oddly, I just split it into: "to the morrow", which apparently bypasses one of the screwier circuits in my brain.

I have to remember it as to-mor-row.

Jimy, spelchequers are pointles.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...the differences in suffixes "ence" and "ance."

sion vs tion

 

[S_Happens]

sion vs tion

good one.

and ise vs ize (when pronounced "eyes")

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

I like selping.

 

[nismaratwork]

I have to remember it as to-mor-row.

Jimy, spelchequers are pointles.

Yeah... I read too much old English as a kid... rots the brain.

Ahhh.. who HASN'T misspelled "brain" as "brian" at least once on keyboard?

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Ahhh.. who HASN'T misspelled "brain" as "brian" at least once on keyboard?

Me.

 

[FrancisZ]

Actual written content, from my great uncle to my grandfather, while the former was on his honeymoon (ca. 1950)...

"Having a wonderful time playing glof."

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sidebar: When very young, did anyone else here think LMNO was a single letter - elemmenno?

as in ...H, I, J, K, ELLEMMENNO, P...

 

[BobG]

Oh, and there's the exceptions to the "i before e, except after c" rule, can't think of one, but they always throw me.

It's ...

i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a,"
As in neighbour and weigh.
Or other weird words
Such as species, science, and seize.

But I always liked the idea that "weird" broke the rule. How fitting.

 

[nismaratwork]

Actual written content, from my great uncle to my grandfather, while the former was on his honeymoon (ca. 1950)...

"Having a wonderful time playing glof."

Maybe 'glof' is a fun alternative to Golf, and you've been missing out this entire time?

@BogG: I love English, but it's absolutely insane. I'm not sure what we expect from a Franco-Deutsch-Dutch-Latinate-Etc... language. Hungarian is easier...

 

[Dembadon]

Here are the ones that cause me to pause:

Correct Spelling (My spelling)

- Separate (Seperate)
- Unnecessary (Unecessary)
- Pharaoh (Pharoah) - Just wrote a paper on ancient Egypt and this word was quite the nuisance.
- Because (Becuase) - Not because I don't know how to spell it, but because my fingers are rebellious.

My mistakes are usually grammatical; I'll leave something and come back later to see that I'm missing an indefinite article somewhere, or my verb tense is screwed-up. This usually happens when I'm correcting something and don't re-read the sentence, or when I simply type something incorrectly, even though what I heard in my head was correct.

My wife and I will always exchange papers / lab reports for this very reason. When I proofread my own stuff, I'll sometimes read mistakes and not notice them because I'll see/hear what I meant to write, not what was actually written.

 

[Gokul43201]

Rithym...Rythme...Rythem?

But no: it's Rhythm, unfortunately. God, it gives me a headache.

And then when you ask someone, they're like: "You mean rhyme?""Y" has no business being a vowel, only part of the time either. That's total bull crap.

Rhythms is the longest English word in current usage that has no vowel. Maybe that knowledge will help with the spelling?

It's ...

i before e,
Except after c,
Or when sounded as "a,"
As in neighbour and weigh.
Or other weird words
Such as species, science, and seize.

But I always liked the idea that "weird" broke the rule. How fitting.

'Weird' is one of those words that I have to think of for half a second, before I can spell it right. I just remember that it is completely back-***-wards: not only does it break the "i before e" rule, it breaks it for no good reason ('science' and 'being' have good reasons).

I think the word I mistype the most is 'an' - I seem to almost always end up with 'and'.

 

[nismaratwork]

Rhythms is the longest English word in current usage that has no vowel. Maybe that knowledge will help with the spelling?

'Weird' is one of those words that I have to think of for half a second, before I can spell it right. I just remember that it is completely back-***-wards: not only does it break the "i before e" rule, it breaks it for no good reason ('science' and 'being' have good reasons).

I think the word I mistype the most is 'an' - I seem to almost always end up with 'and'.

Think of Weird in terms of its origins: Wyrd. Wi-e-rd would sound like "we air ed", and you're aiming for the proto-saxon: "Wyrda" like "vir-dah"... You want e-i "eh-ee" not "ee-eh".

 

[jobyts]

congradulation...congratulation...congragulation

ok, the PF spell checker says the second one is correct...

 

[physics girl phd]

I was going to post to this thread yesterday, but thought at the time I'd wait til tommorrow. (Finally managed to train myself to "tomorrow" a few years ago...)

 

[FrancisZ]

Sidebar: When very young, did anyone else here think LMNO was a single letter - elemmenno?

as in ...H, I, J, K, ELLEMMENNO, P...

Not that, per se. But other things like that: yes, definitely.I used to think the opening lyrics of All in the Family..."Gee didn't our old LaSalle run great..." was actually "Gee doesn't that all sound real great..." For years, I also actually believed that my grandmother's favorite soap opera: "The Young and the Restless;" was "The Young...and the Rest of Us."Indeed, those were the days.

 

[pergradus]

i can NEVER spell neccissary <---- see?

 

[qspeechc]

The "y" in "rhythm" is a vowel. Every word has a vowel.

Some difficulties in spelling would go if you remember the prefixes and suffixes. Tomorrow = to morrow
Misspell is American and should be mis-spell! The same with unnecessary = un-necessary!
When in doubt use "ise", but some words only take "ize", like "prize".
Words like "ridiculous" would not be mis-spelt if they were pronounced properly. The first "i" is short, like the second.

After all that pontificating, I must admit my spelling is just as faulty as everyone else's :p

 

[Borek]

I have problem with words with double consonants - but I see that's a common problem. And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

And sometimes, although rarely, I use "a" instead of "e" - like in "anough".

But then, contrary to most of you, for me English is almost only a written language; I have no idea how to correctly pronounce most of th ewords, so my writing is not clouded by phonetics.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Every word has a vowel.

Actually that's a quotation. Here's the source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenhard_Ng"
There's a word of 5 letters that's always spelled wrong.

 

[nismaratwork]

i can NEVER spell neccissary <---- see?

Just remember the Latin, which hasn't changed:
necessarius/necesse

Necess-ary

 

[nismaratwork]

I have problem with words with double consonants - but I see that's a common problem. And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

And sometimes, although rarely, I use "a" instead of "e" - like in "anough".

But then, contrary to most of you, for me English is almost only a written language; I have no idea how to correctly pronounce most of th ewords, so my writing is not clouded by phonetics.

Having figures out how Polish is roughly proncounced during a rather complex journey to understand Hungarian... I can see how english would be... alien. I personally find the rules of Polish to be... comprehensible, but I'm not sure how well the reverse would work. I think the nature of s, c, and z in English would be a headache.

 

[Gokul43201]

The "y" in "rhythm" is a vowel. Every word has a vowel.

Well, sorta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels

 

[FlexGunship]

"Vacuum" and "Continuum"

In my head, when I type or write "vacuum" I pronounce it (internally) as "vack-you-um" to help me remember.

In the same way that when I type "Wednesday" I pronounce it (internally) as "Wed-ness-day."

 

[jobyts]

****

The above word is not misspelt by me. Somehow, the PF software converts it to 4 stars

 

[cobalt124]

I struggle knowing when to use learned or learnt.

 

[qspeechc]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels

In [...] Received Pronunciation, every lexical word must contain at least one spoken vowel in its pronunciation. In some [...] dialects, such as General American, a word may contain no other vowel sounds if it instead has a syllabic R sound, as in word.

Well that says it all. "General American" is not English.

*Awaits barrage of abuse*

 

[nismaratwork]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_without_vowels



Well that says it all. "General American" is not English.

*Awaits barrage of abuse*

What? I'm American and I'd agree that "GA" is a dialect of English... of course, every dialect is just that...

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

And often my typing is too fast for th ecorrect "the". Not that I know where/when to use "the" and "a", so it is th emoot.

Cool! That's like th email!

Just remember the Latin, which hasn't changed:
necessarius/necesse

Necess-ary

Necessarius sounds like the name of a large Neptune-like exojovian with 8 major moons and three other planets in the system, two inner small terrestrials and one outer superterrestrial with a moon the size of Ceres.


...


I just wowed myself with that.