We’ve already studied the homophones (its v. it’s, their/there/they’re, your v. you’re). I’m not talking about that kind of thing. I’m thinking more of those everyday words that you just see spelled wrong all the damn time, on the internet, in emails, in whatever writing you read regularly. Your contributions would be welcomed and might find their way onto our spelling list this year.
The way I remember it is that the c and s are in alphabetical order, and there’s 1 c and 2 ses, so it’s in numerical order as well. Necessary. But I remember things weirdly, so that may be of no help to you at all.
One that’s a typing thing, not a spelling thing, is ratio. My fingers insist on adding an “n”, so my ratio of rations to ratios is quite high.
Thanks! Interesting that several of the words I picked were on that list, which affirms my impression that they are, in fact, problem words for a lot of people. I think I will add necessary and occasionally, since I see those wrong a lot too, as well as some words from that website.
Accommodate. It has two c’s and two m’s–honest, it does.
Likewise with millennium. We saw a lot of that one in 2000.
Supersede often gets spelled as “supercede”, and minuscule as “miniscule”. These are so common, though, that the alternate spelling has become accepted. If a word gets misspelled often enough, then the wrong spelling becomes the right spelling.
