Ridiculous.
I learned to spell tomorrow by the mnemonic Tom or row. Like if you go to the movies you can sit next to Tom, or the row.
A lot of these words have double letters. I think that is my biggest stumbling block. I can’t remember which letters are doubled and which letters aren’t. With “necessary”, I will go back and forth between “necessary”, “neccesary”, and “neccessary”. Eventually I decide that none of them look right and give up. WhyNot’s little trick may actually work for me.
Just today I saw a note that said: “I put the files back in the draw.” I’m still shuddering.
Phlegm
Along with Opal’s lose/loose, desert/dessert also drives me nutso. And don’t even get me started on you’re/you’re, there/their/they’re, apostrophes on plural, et al.
Especially when these misspellings come from supposedly educated individuals.
shudder
Especially this:
“I got my just deserts.”
“It’s spelled ‘desserts’, dumbass!”
“Uh, no, actually it isn’t.”
there/their/they’re
Yeah, this one and “a lot” leave a car tire screeching noise in my head.
A LOT
Come on people, it is just not that difficult.
Weird. Not wierd, dammit!
Surely “it’s” (when “its” would be correct) is a serious contender.
I’m seeing a troublesome increase in “where” for “were”.
Suprised
(I had to do a literacy and numeracy test at work yesterday - that one came up in the middle of a block of text in a ‘find the spelling mistake’ question - it was surprisingly hard to spot.
Like a lot of others…I came to say “a lot”
I will never forget the spelling because my 9th grade English teacher was making the point to separate (hey another word…) the “a” and the “lot” so she wrote A on one end of the chalk board and “lot” on the far opposite end.
The one word for me…definitely…I type that word at least 3 times a day, and I NEVER spell it wright
“Loose” for “lose” drives me bonkers.
I commonly mispell the word mispell.
I was once told by British Airways that I did not have a reservation on their flight. Some time later they sent me a letter apologizing for misspelling my name. They misspelled “misspelling”.
etc.
I am amazed at the number of people that abbreviate et cetera as ect.
privilege
chaise longue
compliment
lavender
iridescent
all right
Good one. I can’t remember how many times i’ve seen that spelled incorrectly.
I humbly submit:
everyday/every day
While the two bear some relation, they are not the same thing. The first is an adjective indicating commonness, ordinariness, frequency. Something can be “everyday” without occurring every day.
A friend of mine constantly uses “whenever” as a synonym for “when” and it always just sounds so strange to me.
I had a horrible time with “license” for years. My mom’s boxes are often marked “fragil” and it drives me crazy.