What’s the rule for adding an “-able” suffix to words with a silent “e” at the end?
'Cuz a lot of spell-checkers I’ve seen lately seem to have it completely different than what I thought I remembered learning.
wierd
weeps
“could of” “should of” “might of”
NO NO NO NO
You mean “could have” instead of “might have”
Noone instead of “no-one”
Color instead of colour…and a few more 
“Independant”. Very common even here, that one.
“Nevermind”. It is not a word. It is an album by Nirvana. Likewise, “everyday” is an adjective meaning “routine, humdrum”. It is not the same as “every day”.
Not really misspellings, but:
“Enormity” to mean “very large”.
“Momentarily” to mean “in a moment”.
There was a sign posted today stating that “the break room is strickly for Company Name Employees.” I changed it to “strictly”. A new sign appeared today, “The break room is exclusively for Company Name Employees.” Yes, exclusively was italicized.
Intensive purposes drives me batty.
Draws for drawers (which I found on a Target product discription)
Cubbard for Cup Board
Sorry, I’m guilty of misspelling weird. I confess. (Might as well confess I can not pronounce candelabra without thinking about it for a darn long time.)
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:Points to username:
Guilty as charged :o
OTOH – I’ve never figured out why people “correct” me when I use the word “let’s do it.” It’s a contraction of let us (not a nationality, in which case,if you can’t sing like Ella, at least have the decency to capitalize it (and add a ‘t’))
The one that really bugs me is people substituting “then” for “than”. Makes me want to hit people with a dead trout.
“Click” for “clique”; and the resultant “clicky”. Perhaps I can alleviate the stress of this one by throwing balls of rolled-up paper at the elderly.
Now it’s mentioned, the “momentarily” thing pisses me off too, to the point of breaking glass in historic monuments.
“Athiest”. This one makes me want to strangle puppies.
supercede
“mute point” bugs the hell out of me (mostly because in my accent it’s not even a homophone)
“Diety” and “Athiest”. (Do we have “Athy”? “Athier”? NO!)
No, it’s not.
I for one am going to start using “just deserts” a lot more, just so I can have the pleasure of correcting people who correct me.
I didn’t know “supercede” was wrong, or at least not the preferred spelling. I thought it was related to precede and intercede, which I see come from cedere, “to go”, when in fact it apparently comes from sedere, “to sit”.
How about hampster, and the one that drives me nuts… rediculous.
One I know has come up here (somewhere) before:
The point is MOOT, not MUTE.
EDIT: (Oops, I see I’ve been beaten to it.)
Similarly, DUE to the homonymity of due and do in American English, you quite often see “do to”.
See this thread, especially its Post #46.
judgement
“Discrete” when “discreet” is meant and "choose’ instead of “chose.”
A local hospital has huge billboards with the picture of someone swinging a child in the air and the caption reads “I choose spinal surgery at GreatHospital.” If you are swinging that kid, you already had the surgery and you chose to have it at GreatHospital.
I would also like to complain about the prevalent use of “yay or nay.” It makes me want to hurt people.