Top six misspelled words on the Internets.

[Omastar]

http://www.pcmech.com/article/top-6-misspelled-words-on-the-internet/

6. Tomarrow

Wrong. The proper spelling is tomorrow.

5. Rediculous

Wrong. The proper spelling is ridiculous.

4. Definately

Wrong. The proper spelling is definitely. As a matter of fact there is a web site dedicated to the proper spelling of this word.

3. Seperate

Wrong. The proper spelling is separate. Haven’t you ever heard "There is a rat in separate?"

2. Wierd

Wrong. The proper spelling is weird. The improper spelling would literally pronounce as a really bad version "wired".

1. Cemetary

Wrong. The proper spelling is cemetery. There never has been nor ever will be an A in the word cemetery.

I know what you’re thinking. "But.. I’ve seen street signs that have certain roads listed as Cemetary Road!" You probably have. This means the moron who made the street sign didn’t know how to spell either. If that’s the case, sue your town for promoting stupidity.
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XS, however, is one glorious example of misspelled words that go far beyond the scope of this article--even common words.

Point? Learn to spell, damnit. :)

[BenchZowner]

damnit

Damn it :D :p:

[sjohnson]

This is teh best post evar on teh internets.

[RAW-Raptor22]

This is teh best post evar on teh internets.

plos oen.... :up:

[MaxxxRacer]

I think that "the" is the most misspelled word on the internet.

[Soulburner]

I think that "the" is the most misspelled word on the internet.
Right up there with duel.

It's dual!!

[K404]

What about "wrong?"

Everyone spells that wrong.


harharharharharhar.








Sorry.

[Polizei]

This is teh best post evar on teh internets.

You mean intarwebz. :up:

[Starscream]

pr0n?

[Sparky]

quite =! quiet

I see that one a lot too.

[[XC] 2long4u]

I hate it when people use a, and an in the wrong way!
When the first letter of the next word is a vowel, you use an.
When the first letter of the next word is a consonant you use a.
That is pretty easy to remember. Isn't it?

[systemviper]

:rofl:

the next best invention to the TV clicker
is the spell checker :up:

[KoHaN69]

ur the most mispeled wrod no the inetrenet

[MotF Bane]

How about "liek"?

[sjohnson]

Liek, y?

@ Polizei, intarwebz!!!!!11!!! :rotf:

[Omastar]

Liek, y?

@ Polizei, intarwebz!!!!!11!!! :rotf:

sjohnson iz a closset liberel? lol

[sjohnson]

Wut I du in mei clostz is mei biznuss.

Srlsly

[[XC] Lead Head]

Wut I du in mei clostz is mei biznuss.

Srlsly

its teh interwbezs bisniss nao.

[sjohnson]

:rofl:

[BullGod]

Well what can you do if English phonetics are so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up? You can read the same letter in 6 different ways, ooh yeah that's smart. Some people just hear the word and then they try to reproduce it the best that they can. It's not their fault that your language is illogic. You do realize that you're the only country in the world that has spelling contests?

[sjohnson]

Nothing to do with EAASL, but everything to do with 1d10t5 who are presumed by birth to speak english as their FIRST language. teh ingleesh intarwebz peeplz speekn ingleesh.

Those who are bi-lingual > those who are not.

[Polizei]

Liek, y?

@ Polizei, intarwebz!!!!!11!!! :rotf:


Wut I du in mei clostz is mei biznuss.

Srlsly


Srsly, liek omg, its mi biznes 2. plz plz???!

:cool:

[largon]

This thread reminds of someone (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=42400) on techpowerup forums...

[Tortel]

I hate people that type out texting speak. You have a full keyboard with a computer, use it damn it. If you dont want to use, Ill gladly smash it over your head repeatedly until you bleed to death, thankyou.

[phelan1777]

I misspell "what" all the time, typing, as I type it "waht"

[BenchZowner]

I misspell "what" all the time, typing, as I type it "waht"

You're mistyping it, not spelling it wrong.
Spelling something wrong is something that you do on "purpose" ( consciously ).

It's funny how people confuse yours with you're, :banana::banana::banana::banana: with sheet ( just kidding :D ), issues with ishews and tissues :p: ( LOL ).

Speak of the devil:
Nowadays I've seen myself making mistakes, even hilarious and very stupid ones, things I thought I'd never do...well I guess that's aging ( I'm so so old :D ) and the complexity of our lives now.

[jimmyz]

I used to spell better, as my typing speed increased I noticed more misspelled words , not mistyped but actually misspelled. I guess my brain can't work that fast.

[DTU_XaVier]

So, what you're saying is that I definately shouldn't go to the rediculous cemetary tommarrow, because that would be wierd? :confused:
:rofl:

[Nanometer]

The people who confuse you're and your, their and there bother me to. Makes them look like they are stupid.

[biohead]

2long4u;2857985']I hate it when people use a, and an in the wrong way!
When the first letter of the next word is a vowel, you use an.
When the first letter of the next word is a consonant you use a.
That is pretty easy to remember. Isn't it?

Wrong. It's about the pronunciation of the first letter or syllable of a word. For instance it's "an S-Flex fan" because in this case, "S" is pronounced "ess".

And Nano, it's "too". :p:

[sc00p]

I believe I've made lots of mistakes and misspelled words. Most difficulties I've in the use of prepositions and positioning them correctly.

Oh well... I challenge all the natively english speaking people to try finnish, lol.

[IFMU]

Right up there with duel.

It's dual!!
Um... that would depend on the use of the word.
Dual is as in multiples of.
Duel is as 2 people in a duel to the death.

There, their and they're are words that get on my nerves it seems. :shrug:

And yea, last I heard, English/American is the hardest language to learn due to all of the words that overlap with multiple meanings, or sound the same, yet are totally different.
Bear ~ Bare
There ~ Their
etc etc etc... LoL

^_^

[biohead]

Um... that would depend on the use of the word.
Dual is as in multiples of.
Duel is as 2 people in a duel to the death.

There, their and they're are words that get on my nerves it seems. :shrug:

And yea, last I heard, English/American is the hardest language to learn due to all of the words that overlap with multiple meanings, or sound the same, yet are totally different.
Bear ~ Bare
There ~ Their
etc etc etc... LoL

^_^
Uh, you should try Hungarian. Or Dutch for that matter.

English bares a kind of logic that I just fail to see in, for instance, French. Even though it's a derivative.

[sjohnson]

English is Tough Stuff

Dearest creature in creation
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I: Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar.
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamor
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and droll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangor.
Soul but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, knob, bosom, transom, oath.
Through the differences seem little,
We say actual, but also victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, Conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succor, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye.
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, brass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging.
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here, but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation - think of Psyche!
Is it paling, stout and spiky?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advise is to give it up!!!

[[XC] Lead Head]

Well what can you do if English phonetics are so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up? You can read the same letter in 6 different ways, ooh yeah that's smart. Some people just hear the word and then they try to reproduce it the best that they can. It's not their fault that your language is illogic. You do realize that you're the only country in the world that has spelling contests?

What do you mean by "your" language. You realize that English is not American, right?

[Fujimitsu]

The people who confuse you're and your, their and there bother me to. Makes them look like they are stupid.

I'm not much of a grammar nazi.

But this one drives me up a wall.

I see it done by "respectable" people all the time and it drives me insane...

[bullet2urbrain]

I'd like to take this opportunity to give respect to all those whose first language isn't English yet still type on this forum with better grammar and spelling than the majority of Native English speakers.


As for my personal habits, occasionally i'll type the first or 2nd letter first almost like minor dyslexia, except i just flip the letters in the start of the word.
I also capitalize random words throughout sentences, when i'm trying to emphasize a point.


Cheers :toast:

[Polizei]

I also capitalize random words throughout sentences, when i'm trying to emphasize a point.


I've got a friend that does that, but he doesn't know why he capitalizes them. He just does. Not for emphasis or because it's a proper noun, he just capitalizes random words.

[biohead]

I've got a friend that does that, but he doesn't know why he capitalizes them. He just does. Not for emphasis or because it's a proper noun, he just capitalizes random words.

nn_step does that all the time, I have no idea why.

[Omastar]

Well what can you do if English phonetics are so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up? You can read the same letter in 6 different ways, ooh yeah that's smart. Some people just hear the word and then they try to reproduce it the best that they can. It's not their fault that your language is illogic. You do realize that you're the only country in the world that has spelling contests?

Congratulations on associating English with America--all Americans have done is bastardize it from its British roots. But seriously, English is not the hardest language to learn and speak. You think ours is arbitrary and arcane? Try Mandarin Chinese or Russian.

[Origin_Unknown]

Just head on over to 4chan and see all of this thread in action :D

plox.

[BullGod]

Lead Head;2859048']What do you mean by "your" language. You realize that English is not American, right?

You do realize that English is their language right? Like if I were to speak to an Austrian and say your language it would make perfect sense. I would not have to specify that they did not invent the freaking German language now would I? You people find the tiniest things to :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: about. Like the other dude. Hell yeah I can associate the English language with America if I want to. It is the biggest country in the world in which primarily English is spoken. Many of the best writers in the English language were born there and believe me they spoke and wrote much better than you do.

[phelan1777]

The people who confuse you're and your, their and there bother me to. Makes them look like they are stupid.

people that use "to" when they mean too :P:rofl: :D

[trance565]

Point? Learn to spell, damnit. :)


if you can make sense of it, leave it be. :)

[Shaz]

What about Americans that spell "congratulations" with a "d"?

[MaxxxRacer]

The people who confuse you're and your, their and there bother me to. Makes them look like they are stupid.

it doesnt make them look stupid.. The ARE stupid.. Or atleast they dont know the English language very well.

[sjohnson]

Still tough, hasn't changed

This is English
I take it you already KNOW
Of TOUGH and BOUGH and COUGH and DOUGH?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On HICCOUGH, THROUGH, SLOUGH, and THOUGH?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of HEARD, a dreadful word,
That looks like BEARD and sounds like BIRD,
And DEAD: IT's said like BED, not BEAD...
For goodness sake, don't call it "DEED"!
Watch out for MEAT and GREAT and THREAT.
(They rhyme with SUITE and STRAIGHT and DEBT.)

A MOTH is not a MOTH in MOTHER,
Nor BOTH in BOTHER, BROTH in BROTHER.
And HERE is not a match for THERE,
Nor DEAR and FEAR for BEAR and PEAR.
And then there's DOSE and ROSE and LOSE...
Just look them up...and GOOSE and CHOOSE,
And CORK and WORK and CARD and WARD,
And FONT and FRONT and WORD and SWORD,
And DO and GO and THWART and CART...

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Why man alive!
I'd learned to talk it when I was five!
Yet to write it, the more I've tried,
I haven't learned it at fifty-five.

[largon]

Lately I've noticed I always mistype "solder" as "sodler" - but I usually notice it and correct it before posting. But if I do post a typo I feel compelled to hit "Edit"...

[Omastar]

And to anyone relying on Firefox's spell-checker...don't. It's about as useless as the one found in Microsoft Word. See, I know words that it doesn't, and it dings me as having typed the word incorrectly because it has no idea the damn word exists. Good one, developers. Just leave it disabled by default.

[Master_G]

Number 4 is the one that always gets me, so many people spell it definately that i think many people think that definitely is actually wrong!
I never call it a cemetery, i call it a graveyard.

G

[Origin_Unknown]

oh lets not forget anything with a 'Z' that should be an 's' i.e. the american english :\

[Omastar]

oh lets not forget anything with a 'Z' that should be an 's' i.e. the american english :\

Like 'realize' should be 'realise', 'initialize' should be 'initialise', and so forth. And what about 'color' vs. 'colour', 'check' vs. 'cheque' and did you know potato chips are called crisps there? :p:

[Origin_Unknown]

YES!!! exactly that.

not a country bashing thread ;)

[zakelwe]

colour, grey, aluminium are often spelt wrong :p:

Regards

Andy

[tiro_uspsss]

'check' vs. 'cheque'

:confused: isnt one of those a noun & the other a verb?

ie:

"Please check your results."

"I need to take this bank cheque in..."

:shrug:

[sc00p]

colour, aluminium are often spelt wrong :p:

Regards

AndyAren't colour and aluminium spelt like that in England and Europe...
...at U.S. those are color and aluminum :shrug: Other examples could be there of this...

[technodanvan]

And to anyone relying on Firefox's spell-checker...don't. It's about as useless as the one found in Microsoft Word. See, I know words that it doesn't, and it dings me as having typed the word incorrectly because it has no idea the damn word exists. Good one, developers. Just leave it disabled by default.

It's a handy tool, doesn't take long to get popular words saved into the dictionary either. I'm certainly not perfect and it has helped me out more than a few times.

In any case, my personal pet peeve definitely has to be "looser" when people are clearly trying to say "loser".

I've seen it done so often it makes me wonder if I'm the one that's in the wrong.:down:

[MaxxxRacer]

And to anyone relying on Firefox's spell-checker...don't. It's about as useless as the one found in Microsoft Word. See, I know words that it doesn't, and it dings me as having typed the word incorrectly because it has no idea the damn word exists. Good one, developers. Just leave it disabled by default.

The spell check in MS word 07 rocks.. It checks grammar with spelling and will autocorrect and give suggestions based on the context of the sentence.

[sjohnson]

Lol, nothing about MS word 07 rocks. What a nasty thing MS pulled on Word users. On every version prior to 07, MS maintained a degree of backward compatibility WRT the user interface.

Now, not only do the old shortcuts not work the same, but it's doing so much "behind the scenes" that it dogs all but current hardware.

Much more oriented to desktop publishing than word processing. And for 90%+ of all business documents, desktop publishing is not only not needed, but a detriment to productivity.

I really don't need large color swatches that take 5-10 seconds to display on the screen to pick out black for my typeface.

There, feel better now ;)

[Polizei]

I work in a computer lab on campus at school. You wouldn't believe how many students came up to me right after we switched to Office 2007, asking where the "File" menu was and how to print. My coworker and I didn't know, so we just started telling them Control + P.

Turns out the "File" menu is that yellow circle in the top left. :shrug:

[sjohnson]

Word 07, made for people who can't read, so they can prove it to the world, very prettily. :rotf:

[Omastar]

:confused: isnt one of those a noun & the other a verb?

ie:

"Please check your results."

"I need to take this bank cheque in..."

:shrug:

I mean the noun, as in a physical personal check (which is the way it's spelled here), not the verb, to check.

[nn_step]

nn_step does that all the time, I have no idea why.

BeCaUsE I cAn :rolleyes:

[DaMulta]

6. Tomarrow

Wrong. The proper spelling is tomorrow.


I suck at spelling, and it's funny because I always forget how to spell tomorrow.

I need flash cards of that word. So when I work on my sons words for school I could be helping myself out at the same time. hahahaha