(but only for certain people)
I do.
How about Cavalry and Colonel?
“Gray” is the norm in American English; it’s “grey” in British (and I live in America, unfortunately, these days).
The dog breed known as the “greyhound,” according to Wikipedia, takes its name from an Old English term, “grighund;” I don’t know if anybody knows what the “grig” referred to, but the “grey” in greyhound doesn’t refer to its color; there are many different varieties of coat color.
Grey, gray.
See my spellchecker doesnt care.
Dictionaries allow both.
The dictionary is wrong-The correct spelling is “grey”, because the other spelling is too damn bright.
I’ve only been to Jamaica once. Many restaurants, etc. used simplified spelling, but it didn’t make things easier for me – I presume some found it easier to pronounce.
Words that end in “el” and “le” should be interchangeabel.
Judgment. It should really have that extra e.
wright.
This thread is making my eyes hurt. :eek:
ALL OF THEM … EVERY LAST GODDAM WORD … THEY’RE ALL MISSPELTED … I need to go take meds now …
I came here to offer Aluminium, since I missed it on a spelling test in 6th grade. But spell check made it look misspelled & aluminum appears correct. Did we officially change the spelling of that word? Online dictionary says both are correct.
'Aluminium" is the British spelling and pronunciation. Aluminum is what normal people say (aka Americans). It is a trap used to catch spies.
Well dammit, I need to go back to my 6th grade english teacher & dispute this! She is also responsible for my spelling this the British way for the past 40 years :mad:
Yu min a shibolez.
As are proper nouns with an initial lower case letter.
My vote is for chaos, the word not the state of our spelling.
I spell it that way frequently and without qualm (when I can get away with it). 
To me “wrongly spelled” ≠ “not phonetically spelled”. English is only an “incidentally phonetic” language.
e truli fǝnɛtIk lɑŋwIdʒ wʊd wɚk dIfɚrɛntli
My nomination: “its”, the possessive form of “it”. To me it is self-evident that it should be spelled “it’s”, just like the contraction for “it is”. I’m convinced that the epidemic of apostrophe misuse traces back to confusion over “its”. And yes I know the word “it” is a pronoun. I suppose some would say that, for the sake of my own consistency, I should be advocating for “her’s” as the possessive of “her”. Problem is, the possessive of “him” is neither “hims” nor “him’s” but “his”. That supports the notion that the possessive forms of pronouns are special cases. Whatever. There are really two feminine analogues of its/it’s --> “her” (as in “that is her book”) and “hers” (as in “that book is hers”). The first formulation is the more common way in which the possessive form of “it” crops up in speech and writing. “The rule, and its antecedents, have been cited”. In that location it really ought to have an apostrophe; the “s” works like the “s” affixed to “store’s” in the sentence “The store’s windows are dirty”.
I think kids learning grammar get bewildered by “its”, the possessive, not having an apostrophe, and that causes them to lack clarity of what apostrophes are for.
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OK, and “buses”. You gotta be fucking kidding me. You can’t pluralize “bus” that way and pronounce it the way it’s pronounced. That word with that spelling has to rhyme with “fuses”. Who cares if it is spelled the same way as a word that means “kisses”?
That’s epitome for me.
All the ie/ei words. Pick one, spell them all that way. “I before E except after C, or when it sounds like a” with 74,962 exceptions is a bit fucking much.
supposedly the element’s original name was “alumium,” then shortly after changed to “aluminum.” Then IUPAC settled on “aluminium” as the preferred form, with “aluminum” being an accepted alternative. Apparently it’s only an issue with this one element, as we haven’t changed to saying platinium, tantalium, molybdenium, etc…