Misspelled Words
Today I came accross a list of the top ten most misspelled city names (apparently only U.S. cities are on this list). Of course, my city is on the list.
1. Pittsburgh
2. Tucson
3. Cincinnati
4. Albuquerque
5. Culpeper
6. Asheville
7. Worcester
8. Manhattan
9. Phoenix
10. Niagara Falls
(I note which cities of some of my readers are NOT on that list: Ottawa, Merced, Vancouver, Richmond, San Francisco.)
So then I looked for lists of regular (American) English language words that are commonly misspelled. I found a lot of such lists. Here are two lists.
One list:
1. minuscule
2. millennium
3. embarrassment
4. occurrence
5. accommodate
6. perseverance
7. supersede
8. noticeable
9. harass
10. inoculate
Another list:
1. independent
2. accommodation
3. definitely
4. receive
5. opportunities
6. their
7. occurred
8. information
9. official
10. activities
This site produced the first list and has a lot of interesting comments:
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/error.html
Other common misspellings that I run across as I read blogs are really errors where people don't know the proper usage of certain words.
than vs. then
their vs. there vs. they're
it's vs. its vs. it is
your vs. you're vs. you are
were vs. where
I vs. me
to vs. too
are vs. our
Now for the gender-specific vs. politically correct (!):
policeman vs. police officer
fireman vs. fire fighter
mailman vs. letter carrier
actress vs. actor
This could go on and on (and I am sure some commenters will add their favorite spelling gripes - - please do! Canadians and UK'ers are excused!!!!)
posted by jw @ 8/24/2006 02:09:00 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
phase and faze
Re your and you're, to and too, etc.
I know the difference but sometimes I'll look at a post and see I've used the wrong one. They're typos. My brain and my fingers don't seem to connect.
I do the same as Granny. I know better. My fingers, however, do not.
Here's a pilot PC one:
Flight Attendant vs. "Stewardess".
Oh spelling...Mum can vouche for the fact that I did not inherit one single bit of the spelling genes. My brother was correcting my spelling by the time he was seven (and I was fourteen). Thank heavens for spell checks...
affect vs effect
UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!!
nice site
L. must have been tapping her fingers looking for a post too. I hadn't seen this one.
Merced, CA - spelled correctly of course but you'd be surprised how many people don't know how to pronounce it.
Two syllables - Mer sed - accent on 2nd.
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