Most common spelling mistake / typo ??

My most common typo is every word. I must be a nightmare on MSN.

I type too fast when I have more than one window open and I always press enter before I check.

mongo18 said:

Several high schools in my area are now accepting text abbreviations in students' work. This is the same school district that taught 4 classes to spell phonetically, before deciding to drop and and start teaching again, so now there are 4 years worth of people out there who got through school just fine, but never learned to spell. I have a friend who is a high school teacher and when I asked her how they could justify allowing text-speak, she simply replied "We don't have a choice. I've got kids who will tell me to fuck off right to me face and if I try to do anything about it I get their parents trying to sue me." At least there is one girl, currently squeaking and bouncing in her chair upstairs, who will be able to spell and articulate, I'll make sure of that.

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That's sad, but well understood, like the use of calculators in schools that mean kids can't figure out something as basic as making change without reading it off a screen.

ninetysixcavy said:

Charming. No need to worry. At this rate, China will surpass us in the math and sciences in about 25 years.

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I remember an email I got, a picture with Chinese U. students dressed alike, and sitting in neat rows for their class picture while the U. of CO. picture showed a bunch of drunks from Animal House with girls flashing boobs. I took the point of the email to be that it's really not very funny. :dunno:

AverageAllStar said:

The worst one in my book is by far when people make a lot into one word. That pisses me off to no end. So in case you didn't know this already, it is a lot, not alot.

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I always thought it was 2 words, in fact it was two words. The dictionaries add things in common use even if they are incorrect. 24/7 is not a word, it's an overused cliche' that made it in the book against protest.

How about noone. What is noone? Is it midday? No it's two separate words

poggy said:

Considering accents have come into the written words more now. Also that most people type how they speak. As well as 99% of the world don't even use Queens English anymore. In that figure the fact that the English language isn't their first language. Then you can now expect typo's from the way you speak or type.

Oh and alot AAS is in the Oxford English dictionary as one word. But many do miss spell it by spelling it allot.

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That's it, that's why there are misuses of homonyms, words like, crews and cruise, shoot and chute, site and sight. but yes, the sounds don't often go down on paper the way they should. But people write what sounds or looks close, and leave it to the rest of humanity to interpret their meaning. Not a good first step to introduce yourself to your readers as one who thinks.

I saw a guy driving a huge monster truck, with the name Frankenstine painted on the side. You think he might have gotten a spell check before paying $5,000 for a paint job.

Loose and lose , complement and compliment,principle and principal all seem to be more or less interchangeable these days!
And when did data and media become singular? They are the plural forms of datum and medium.

marquis2 said:

And when did data and media become singular? They are the plural forms of datum and medium.

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Is the other data not lore ???

marquis2 said:

Loose and lose , complement and compliment,principle and principal all seem to be more or less interchangeable these days!
And when did data and media become singular? They are the plural forms of datum and medium.

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Are and our, are not the same. This is are house, makes no sense.

I can't stand Microsoft's usage of "American English", some of us like to use an "S" instead of "Z" in some words.

Living in the UK, I like to use "English English". Doth I protest too much? Now, I must put down mine own cyber-quill and replenish thine cup of tea

People who say "could of" when it should be "could have"
The data/media misuse is quite recent , even a few years ago someone would say "here are the data" (data is a Greek word meaning "things given") and you chose which medium to use.TV was a news medium , and so were radio and newspapers.Together they became "the media" but always in the plural sense.

"They're is a lot of reasons", is automatically wrong, as is "there is a lot of reasons".
"I didn't say nothing". Okay, so what did you say?
"I seen it", or "we seen it". Understandable at least.


But sometimes the popular slang is so bad, it makes the writing on cave walls seem a lot clearer. At least they did the best they could and didn't have cell phones to type on.

How about anything in american spelling? :thefinger

I can't stand the way microsoft programs just set the default to English US, and even when I set it to English UK, it still finds a way to change back whenever it feels like it. WTF?

Seriously though, what's with the random omission of letters from words and the insistence on using Zs everywhere, even when it is etymologically incorrect? Analyze?? Excuse me, what? This would be a word which has its roots in analysis? Analyse is the correct spelling.

As a Chemist, I dislike the 'alternative' spellings of elements in the periodic table. Aluminum instead of Aluminium. Sulfur instead of Sulphur. Many metals end in -ium. There's a reason for that, and the americans come along and say, nah, that's too hard to pronounce so we'll change it Maybe if they pronounced their "u"s correctly they'd be able to pronounce aluminium.

I think I understand where American English came from, or at least I have a theory. I've always assumed it was because of the number of immigrants into the US in the early days, so you needed to simplify the english language to make it more phonetic (why isn't that spelled "fonetic", by the way?). I get that, I do, but it does give the rest of the world the impression that you're too thick to spell words without spelling them phonetically

Incidentally, this is a decent site
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Chewy75 said:

Analyse is the correct spelling.

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no its not. sound the word out. an s has a completely different sound than z does.


pointless z's in american spelling? how about even more pointless u's in english spelling? colour?

mabee your just to much of a gramer nazi alot of peeps just dont worrie about commas, and, shit, there to busy trying too tipe and shit. u no wat i meen?.

coolbeers said:

mabee your just to much of a gramer nazi alot of peeps just dont worrie about commas, and, shit, there to busy trying too tipe and shit. u no wat i meen?.

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I think, maybe. Yeah, it takes some practice.

marquis2 said:

The moronic use of i to denote the first person singular.Perhaps the users don't have sufficient self esteem to allocate themselves an upper case letter!

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i happen to know that i dont forget to capitalize. nope, i know i should, but i dont care. i cant type. so when i go to type a word that should be capitalized, such as i, i dont want to to save time. i know i should, but what am i going to do about? i wont do anything.

I am not an animal, I am human being! :thumbsup:

i see pron instead of porn all the time.

Chewy75 said:

How about anything in american spelling? :thefinger

I can't stand the way microsoft programs just set the default to English US, and even when I set it to English UK, it still finds a way to change back whenever it feels like it. WTF?

Seriously though, what's with the random omission of letters from words and the insistence on using Zs everywhere, even when it is etymologically incorrect? Analyze?? Excuse me, what? This would be a word which has its roots in analysis? Analyse is the correct spelling.

As a Chemist, I dislike the 'alternative' spellings of elements in the periodic table. Aluminum instead of Aluminium. Sulfur instead of Sulphur. Many metals end in -ium. There's a reason for that, and the americans come along and say, nah, that's too hard to pronounce so we'll change it Maybe if they pronounced their "u"s correctly they'd be able to pronounce aluminium.

I think I understand where American English came from, or at least I have a theory. I've always assumed it was because of the number of immigrants into the US in the early days, so you needed to simplify the english language to make it more phonetic (why isn't that spelled "fonetic", by the way?). I get that, I do, but it does give the rest of the world the impression that you're too thick to spell words without spelling them phonetically

Incidentally, this is a decent site
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

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I just thought it gave the world the impression that the U.S. is better than everybody else...just kidding!! We are better though, right?!? :hatsoff:

I commonly miss spell osteosarchaematosplan chnochondroneuromuelous, I cant explain why.

Second place is:
Methionylglutamin ylarginyltyrosylglu tamylserylleucylphenyl-
alanylalanylgluta minylleucyllysylgluta mylarginy llysyglutamyl-
gycylalanyl phenylalanylvalylp rolylphe nylalanylvaly lthreonyl-
leucylglycylaspa rtylprolylglyc yllisoleucylglu tamylglutaminyl -
serylleu cyllysylisoleu cylaspartylthr eonylleu cylisoleucyl-
glutamylalan ylglycylalany laspartylala nylleucylgluta mylleucyl-
glycylis oleucylprol ylphe nylalan ylseryla spartylp rolylle ucyl-
alanylaspart ylglycylprol ylthreonylisoleucylgluta minylasparagin yl-
alanylt hreonylleucylargin ylalanylphenylalany lalanylalanyl-
gl ycylvalylth reonylprolylal anylglutaminylc ysteinylpheny lalanyl-
glutamyl methionylleucylal anylleucylisoleucyl arginylgluta minyl-
lysylhist idylprolylthreonyli soleucylprolylisoleucyl glycylleucyl-
leucylmethiony ltyrosylalanylaspa raginylleucylvalylphe nylalanyl-
asparaginyll ysylglycylisoleucylasp artylglutamylphenylalanyl-
tyr osylalanylglutaminylcystei nylglutamyllysylvalylgly cylvalyl-
aspartylsrylva lylleucylvalylalanyla spartylvalylprolylval yl-
glutaminyl gluta mylserylalanylpr ol ylphenylalanyla rginylglu taminyl-
alanyl alanylleucylar ginylhistidylasparag inylvalylalanyl -
prolylisol eucylphenylal anylisoleucylcystei nylprolylprolylas partyl-
alanylas partylaspartylaspartyl leucylleucylargin ylglutaminyl-
i soleucyla lanylseryltyrosylgl ycylarginylglycyl tyrosylthreonyl-
tyrosylleuc ylleucylserylarginy lalanylglycylvalylth reonylglycyl-
alanylgl utamylasparag inylarginylalany lalanylleucyll eucyllysyl-
glu tamyltyrosyl asparaginylala nylalanylprolylpro lylleucylglutaminyl-
gly cylphenylalanylgly sylisoleucylserylal anylprolylaspa rtylglutaminyl -
valyllysyl alanylalanylisole ucylaspartylalanyl glycylalanylalan yl-
glycylalanyli soleucylserylglycyl serylalanylisoleuc ylvaly llysylisoleu cyl-
isoleuc ylglutamylgl utaminylhis tidylasparagin ylisoleucylglu tamyl-
proly lglutamyll ysylmethionylle ucylalanyl alanylleucylly sylvalylphenyl -
alanylval ylglutaminylproly lmethionyllysyl alanylalanylthreon ylarginy-lserine.

(all one word)

Which is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8. Which i use often

AverageAllStar said:

I just thought it gave the world the impression that the U.S. is better than everybody else...just kidding!! We are better though, right?!? :hatsoff:

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Of course AllStar, goes without saying does it not ???

Don't know if this has been posted, but the word judgment is very commonly misspelled. So is misspelled.

Take a look at the way this guy butchered the English language:

http://board.freeones.com/showpost.php?p=668825&postcount=3

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