 | | 
07-31-2008, 11:05 PM
|  | Wishy-Washy Centrist! | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,599
Rep Power: 49 | | | Words you see misspelled a lot~
#1-ridiculous
__________________
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire |
Login to remove all ads
07-31-2008, 11:18 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Louisiana
Posts: 498
Rep Power: 30 | | I like it when people mispell words that are ironic to mispell, like
intelligent
education
fastidious
meticulous
misspell
That sort of thing.
P.S., yay, I spelled all of those words right on the first try (I have dictionary.com bookmarked)
P.P.S. oh, and mispellings in thread titles can be funny depending on the topic; for example, " Federa Legislation To Legalize Pot?" I almost fixed that one but was like, "nah, that's too funny" 
__________________
The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy. ~Emily Dickinson |
07-31-2008, 11:23 PM
|  | Karma Chameleon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: From the Back of Beyond
Posts: 4,500
Rep Power: 287 | | | Accommodation
Liaison
Manoeuvre (especially you Yanks)
Labour (see above)
Foetus (see above)
Mum (see above) :o)
But the one I see misspelled a lot, and in many different variations, is hypocrisy....
__________________
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." Richard Dawkins |
07-31-2008, 11:24 PM
| | Wishy-Washy Centrist! | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,599
Rep Power: 49 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Abelian Sea  I like it when people mispell words that are ironic to mispell, like
intelligent
education
fastidious
meticulous
misspell
That sort of thing.
P.S., yay, I spelled all of those words right on the first try (I have dictionary.com bookmarked)
P.P.S. oh, and mispellings in thread titles can be funny depending on the topic; for example, " Federa Legislation To Legalize Pot?" I almost fixed that one but was like, "nah, that's too funny" | This is a good site to find the most common ones: A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words
__________________
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire |
07-31-2008, 11:26 PM
| | Wishy-Washy Centrist! | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,599
Rep Power: 49 | | | Sadly, here is a real headline from my town:
Indianapolis, IN:
Who is to blame for the cirme in Indy?
__________________
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire |
07-31-2008, 11:29 PM
| | Karma Chameleon | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: From the Back of Beyond
Posts: 4,500
Rep Power: 287 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Echo Zulu Sadly, here is a real headline from my town:
Indianapolis, IN:
Who is to blame for the cirme in Indy? | Cirme sounds like a self-appointed narcissitic aristocrat
__________________
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." Richard Dawkins |
07-31-2008, 11:30 PM
| | Wishy-Washy Centrist! | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,599
Rep Power: 49 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Grump Accommodation
Liaison
Manoeuvre (especially you Yanks)
Labour (see above)
Foetus (see above)
Mum (see above) :o)
But the one I see misspelled a lot, and in many different variations, is hypocrisy.... | Your kind spells color weird too! (colour?) :wink:
(Oh, weird is another one I see a lot, people like to spell it wierd)
__________________
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire |
07-31-2008, 11:30 PM
|  | USMB Member | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Central California
Posts: 2,770
Rep Power: 15 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Echo Zulu |
mischievous
pastime
occurred
separate
embarrass
preceding
indispensable
definitely
privilege
questionnaire
.... and all of the others from the (above) link. I am a horrible speller, but most of the words I mis-spell look right to me, when I type them, so I just say ... what the heck. Looks good to me.  hmmmn .... is it mis-spell or misspell  |
07-31-2008, 11:31 PM
| | Wishy-Washy Centrist! | | Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,599
Rep Power: 49 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Grump Cirme sounds like a self-appointed narcissitic aristocrat | Or a band playing at your local pub this Saturday night!
__________________
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire |
07-31-2008, 11:33 PM
| | USMB Member | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Central California
Posts: 2,770
Rep Power: 15 | | Quote: |
Who is to blame for the cirme in Indy?
| so what'z the problem  Joke alert! lol I KNOW that "blame" is spelled wrong! |
08-01-2008, 12:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posts: 1,392
Rep Power: 27 | | | The one I see most often is a lot. To many spell it alot. It's 2 words not one.
__________________  You might be a liberal if...
You're pissed nobody came to your whine and government cheese party. |
08-01-2008, 05:58 AM
| | Mr. Forgot-it-All | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Maine
Posts: 6,617
Rep Power: 43 | | | I often type "your" when I mean "you're" or vice versa. In fact, for some strange reason I'm more likely to get that wrong than right, despite the fact that I fully understand which word is right.
My spelling and typing skills are abysmal for a man who was blessed with my education.
For example...have I just spelled abysmal correctly?
I'll have to look it up, just to be sure.
Why? I don't know. I use that word all the time, but that's just one of those words that I'm never quite sure about.
Ridiculous is another example of a word I often misspell. Corporation one I usually mistype, and government, another.
When I'm on a tear to get my thoughts down in ASCII, of course, those issues become less and less important to me.
That's what copyeditors are for.
Some people can just SEE the errors that we can't when we're editing our own work. |
08-01-2008, 06:08 AM
|  | Massage Bored P'wner | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,744
Rep Power: 83 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Grump Accommodation
Liaison
Manoeuvre (especially you Yanks)
Labour (see above)
Foetus (see above)
Mum (see above) :o)
But the one I see misspelled a lot, and in many different variations, is hypocrisy.... | LO(U)L!
I think hypocrisy is often misspelled as "hypocracy" because either people are making a play on words or they've seen that play on words so many times they forgot the correct spelling. |
08-01-2008, 06:08 AM
|  | Administrator | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 22,165
Rep Power: 369 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Grump Accommodation
Liaison
Manoeuvre (especially you Yanks)
Labour (see above)
Foetus (see above)
Mum (see above) :o)
But the one I see misspelled a lot, and in many different variations, is hypocrisy.... | We don't misspell those words. We have modified the format to fit OUR screens.
__________________
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke |
08-01-2008, 06:09 AM
| | Massage Bored P'wner | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,744
Rep Power: 83 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Echo Zulu #1-ridiculous | People are so unedumacated! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | | |
|
