Merriam-Webster online will give you suggestions if you type in a misspelled word.
I’m always suprised at how many people have breaks on there cars. And all those people that have to get they’re perscriptions filled.
I was thinking the same thing.
I trained myself to spell definitely right, as well as separate and Rensselaer.
I do my best, people. We’ve been spoiled by spellcheck. Some words just get stuck in your brain the wrong way.
hoping Gaudere’s Law won’t strike me down
At times, yeah.
I try to be considerate here. I have a spell check extension installed into FireFox and check most of my posts before I hit submit. I almost always preview, and if I think something is gonna make me look stupid before I submit it, I’ll do the leg work to fix the problem. Mistakes still get through, and I’m not gonna apologize for them.
On the other hand, aside from an auto spell check that comes up when I send a new email, I don’t put as much effort into email and especially chats (don’t have time in a real time chat environment), which is where I’m usually slapping my forehead.
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Ah, see, my spelling has always been pretty good, but restaurant was one that used to get to me. I always forgot where the ‘u’ went. Until I worked in one, and had to deal with a lot of people whining about stupid things. The last four letters spell RANT.
Separate? Really? That just looks wrong to me. I’m going to have to have a word with those English Oxford peeps about this.
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My quick and dirty spell checker is Google. Just give an approximate spelling and Google will usually correct you, unless of course the misspelling you give is an actual word in itself (e.g. “rouge” for “rogue”).
“Mispelling,” by the way, is one that gets on my nerves all the time.
Honestly, though, the OP can’t even spell “Canada.” How much credance can we give his/her complaint?
tdn, what’s wrong with “advertisement”?
But if you think that you spelled seizure correctly, why would you go look it up on dictionary.com? You’d have to check every single word of your posts to make sure they are all real words or that they are spelled incorrectly.
I agree with you though, not being able to spell bugs me…alot. 
Loose for lose is on my shit list. I can’t fucking stand it and I automatically assume the typist is a drooling idiot. That just seems so basic to me. It’s not fair, I know, but there it is.
::check post made earlier today in MPSIMS:: ARGH. :smack: BTW, thanks for the tip, thewombat. Hopefully, that’ll help.
I consider myself a decent speller and the majority of my mistakes are due to just plain old typing too fast and not bothering to preview. But, the word I almost always screw up is “evidently”. I usually spell it “evidentally” which makes me look like a moron. (man, it’s really hard to not make spelling mistakes when you’re in a thread about spelling…)
The only time I will stick my tounge out is while reclining on a chaise lounge! 
I’m an awful spellar too. (ok that was a joke). But really, I was a good speller until about tenth grade when I started typing things in Word. Somehow the part of my brain that was responsible for spelling just didn’t get any use after that and I’ve always had problems.
The other problem is that English isn’t that easy to spell. I mean some languages like German and Spanish are largely phonetic, so its easier to spell. Too bad we didn’t go to any kind of phonetic spelling. There are actual groups out there that advocate some kind of standardization for phonetic spelling, but then we’d all have to relearn, which nobody wants to do, plus there is no standard dialect for English anymore. Before colonization of America, I suppose the Oxford, Cambridge, London accent was the proper dialect, but now you have American, plus tons of other ones.
It is getting worse though. Things like moter are bad. Another one is lier.
But another problem you guys mentioned is that sometimes we all just look at a correctly spelled word and think, “That just can’t be right” and we forget for a second how something is spelled at all even with the most simple words. I think its because we have a spelling and a “sounds-like” category for each word in our brains and people who use a phonetic alphabet have a much easier time with this. I remember doing my thesis, and I just could NOT type Statistical. It almost always comes out stastical. It has no relation to the sound, just my screwed up entry for “how to spell Statistical” I had to retype it both times to get it right, even now!
The level of spelling competency on the Isle of Man is terrible. Most of my colleagues (including the non Manx ones) spell simple words very badly. I had to remind one this very day that there is a ‘p’ in ‘empty’.
However, I’m not perfect. I said ‘possetionless’ in another thread just minutes ago :smack:
It’s deliberately misspelled from the way it should be… which I screwed up.
Cleverly proving my point.
A friend of mine says “alot” and “alittle”. She also says “enless”, “rediculous”, and “halarious”. Then she just starts getting cocky and attempting words like “fanglorious” (and if it wasn’t bad enough that she doesn’t know how to spell “vainglorious”, she uses it improperly, as if it meant the same thing as “glorious”).
Maybe she means fangoriously.
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AuntiePam, I have stared at this sentence for several minutes and I can’t see anything wrong with it (unless you are a Brit and don’t like the Americanized spelling of favourite).
My pet peeve is people who can’t be bothered to learn the difference between sound-alike words, such as two/to/too, their/there/theyre, whether/weather, etc.
It’s supposed to be Stephen King.
I swear there was an apostrophe in “they’re” when I previewed.
:smack:
Gaudere’s law strikes again.
Stephen/Steven.