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What Is The Most Commonly Misspelled Word On Message Boards

I'm not thinking of common typos such as "teh"

         

lawman

4:08 am on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The one that sticks out to me is "definitely", commonly spelled "definately".

jsinger

4:09 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Funny thing: Until the web, like most Americans, I thought all English wrote impeccably. Brits seem to have even more trouble with the triad of there, their and they're.

Gee, we've already listed every word that popped into my head when I saw the subject. BTW, I see a lot of really educated people having trouble with
"definitely."

I have young kids. They covered too, two and to in about 2nd grade. I made darn sure they learned these words well when they were starting out.

Neo541

4:12 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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loose vs. lose

Drives me nuts!

oneguy

4:44 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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If it is the possesive it has to be it's ..I never saw any other variety of it .

Actually, "it's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has."

The possessive is "its" without an apostrophe.

This is one of those exceptions to the rule, where many think someone is wrong, even when they are correctly using it.

loose vs. lose
Drives me nuts!

Yeah.... if any of them bother me, it's that one, especially since it's usually someone calling someone else a "looser."

encyclo

4:52 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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loose vs. lose
Drives me nuts!

Shouldn't that be "Drive's me nuts"?

;)

Neo541

5:15 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Shouldn't that be "Drive's me nuts"?

No.

Drives me nuts, I was just lazy and didn't put the "It" in front.

oddsod

5:21 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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This is in my bookmarks: common errors in English [wsu.edu]

Your going to love it (sorry, couldn't resist ;), my moneies on "your" as an abbrev. That's the worst by far and away [wsu.edu]).

cornwall

5:33 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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In travel you find "accommodation" to be widely incorrect

Google for it gives

90 million correct at "accommodation"
10 millioon incorrect at "accomodation"
1 million incorrect at "acommodation"
1 million incorrect at "acomodation"

oddsod

5:38 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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#1 spelling mistake: Goooooogle

lawman

5:44 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Where I come from, it's butt nekid [wsu.edu].

john_k

6:41 pm on Dec 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Lawman - that's an excellent site. He has an long list of other errors here [wsu.edu]. Thanks for posting that link!

I had to laugh - My wife always switches "bring" and "take" ("could you bring this out to the car?"). I have tried to convince her that they are not interchangeable, but could never find anything to back up the distinction.

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