Ten Words You Need To Stop Misspelling

[frankfrank]

Oh the other hand, it never fails to surprise me how often the word ANNIHILATE is spelled **correctly** by people...

 

[Críostóir]

Oh the other hand, it never fails to surprise me how often the word ANNIHILATE is spelled **correctly** by people...

From Asterix and Cleopatra:

"Advance? But we've only just retreated!"
"If we advance we'll be driven into the Nile!"
"We'll be annihilated!"
"One more pun like that and I desert!"

 

[EasyRory]

I always pause over separate vs. seperate.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I always pause over separate vs. seperate.

Yes. I say seperate is like desperate and wrong.

 

[winterknight]

People typing LOOSE as in "You're gonna LOSE the game"...unless there's alot of Loose people on the internet...

...


I just lost the game.

Sorry.

 

[frankfrank]

^ Necro-thread activity...I see winterknight is still a member, but no posts from you in ages??

Check this link out - it's a REAL ad in Arizona. How many misspellings can you find?

http://www.bellringerws.com/

 

[Yooper]

^ ^Well, now, I'll run right down and pick up my Santa Fee.

 

[Latimer]

I think this is due to people being unable to identify the two separate words that make up "Would've, Should've, or Could've" which is what is used in most speech.

Nobody really says, "Well, I would have done this ...", we say "Well, I would've done this".

I really do say "I would have done this" more than I say "I would've done this."

I find it noteworthy that--with increasingly rare exceptions--spoken and written American English uses "would" when British English uses "should" and vise-versa.

 

[NotHardUp1]

This thread and all the memories: there are many great posters gone.

It's a veritable Flanders Field.

 

[rareboy]

Yes. I say seperate is like desperate and wrong.

Speaking of desperate and wrong and MIA's......

 

[rareboy]

...and omg.....someone wrote about Alexander the Great 'raising' a city to the ground when they meant 'razed'.....my eyes are bleeding.