Common words which people can't spell

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i've been spelling the word 'failure' as 'failiure' for the past year in economics until recently when I noticed i've been spelling it wrong:L lol

Reply 21

insertnamehere

Your/you're, their/there/they're, and lose/loose.

It's freaking annoying when people ask on these threads- "At what age did you loose your virginity?"
I keep thinking that it should have been tight if you were a virgin! (Yeah, I know.)

Also, 'should of' instead of 'should have'.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 22

Rachael.

The amount of times I see 'wierd' instead of 'weird' is ridiculous!

Reply 23

thewiseone

Original post by Superstar6318

I'm sick of people who can't spell so here's how to spell certain words.

Definitely - not definately or definitaly.

Breathe - note that this is spelt different from breath. You're meant to use breathe to explain how one inhales oxygen and emits carbon dioxide, and you use breath when you refer to ones breath smelling.

Occasionally - two C's used.

Focused - Why oh why do people spell it as 'focussed?'

Grammar- not grammer

does anyone care to add any more?

Reply 24

Law123mus

'A lot' which is two words is often spelled 'alot' which is just not a word.

Reply 25

milkytea

"It's", "Can't", "You've", and other words with apostrophes.

I saw someone on facebook put an apostrophe in "meant" the other day.

I'm not usually a Grammar Nazi, but... :angry:

Reply 26

OceanSoul

Tounge instead of tongue. I get that a lot myself :tongue:

My mom always misspells sleep. She writes sleap.

Reply 27

Joshalos

Awkward is so awkward to spell! D:

Also, often people spell business as 'buisness'.

Reply 28

FairyNuff

Necessary: Never Eat Cake Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young :biggrin:

Reply 29

HEJ92

Original post by Superstar6318

When people spell "college" as "collage" I want to shoot myself in the face.

Reply 30

FairyNuff

also people who spell "Challenge" as "Challange" grr.

Reply 31

Marinated_in_Joy

People who can't spell "college" shouldn't be going to university, end of.

unnecessary

There is a webpage that displays a mass of misspelled words, poor grammar, words used out of context etc. Facebook.

And my friend ALWAYS writes surfice instead of suffice.

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Reply 34

Chewmeister

I go to a grammar school and I can't say the amount of times people that actually go there called it a grammer school. :facepalm2:

Reply 35

Atrozius Faatz

Not sure if other people misspell this one, but for some reason I always spell 'publicly' as 'publically' :colondollar:

In-ger-land

Original post by S129439

Misspelled is often misspelled

It's actually spelt misspelt in Britain.

wierd :/

what i think is that people are lesser human beings when they make spelling errors and we should eliminate them.

nah, who cares. but what i really despise, is the people that go around on their high horses, saying things like IF YOU USE THE WORD LITERALLY/BASICALLY IN THIS WAY THEN YOU ARE A **** HUMAN BEING AND I AM IGNORING YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY WORTHLESS. jesus, if serious: pipe down and get a hobby and get away from your current outlook. if troll: not funny, get more material, bindun etc.

bored.