I have noticed that if I am reading something in which a word is repeated often, then the word begins to look misspelled. I noticed it today in this thread. The word “salt” is used a lot, for obvious reasons, but by the time I got to the end of the thread I thought it was spelled incorrectly and I was driving myself crazy trying to figure out the correct spelling for “salt”.
Does this happen to anyone else or has my very thin chain finally snapped?
(Not that it would surprise me…I just like to stay well informed on the state of my sanity.)
My quite-intelligent friend called me the other day and asked how to spell her friend’s name. Her friend’s name is Donna. She’s known how to spell this name for years and year and years. But on this one particular day she had a brain fart and couldn’t remember how to spell it. Weerd. Very, very weerd.
“Fork.” Particularly in my Magic: The Gathering days, when you might have to consider the prospect of two Forks forking each other. That’s a lot of forking forks going on.
I always have to pause with the word “weird.” It never looks right, and I guess it’s because it doesn’t conform to the “‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ or when it sounds like ‘a’ as in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh.’” rule I’ve used since childhood. There are others, too, and it seems to happen randomly. Maybe it’s a human brain oddity, kind of like deja vu.
Collectible/collectable. According to my Merriam-Webster’s, they’re both right, but I don’t like either of them. The whole concept of collectables is annoying to me, now that I think about it. Down with collectibles! :mad:
“Epitome” is the epitome of words that look misspelled. If you don’t want the “e” on the end silent and a long “o”, use a “y” on the end instead. Sheesh.