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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:04 AM
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Okay...we have "most mispronounced"...how about most misspelled?
I say "weird" has to be in the top ten. (People just can't seem to get a handle on the exceptions to that "i before e" thing).

Also, "toe the line" (from pre-Marquess of Queensbury boxing; at the beginning of the round the fighters had to stand toe to toe on a line at the centre of the ring)...NOT "tow".

This can bother me almost as much as people who can't speak properly, and there's a lot of it out there...are there any little things like this that especially irritate any of you? (Not talking honest mistakes, here, either, but consistent misspellings...everyone slips up from time to time, but some people don't seem to know they're wrong or care...)
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:08 AM
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1. to too two & their there they're
I see those particular homonyms misused quite often online, including here on DU.

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:24 AM
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2. Looser for loser
Its vs. it's
mispell for misspell
hypocracy for hypocrisy
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 08:48 AM
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10. The latter is an amalgamation that I thought people would appreciate
"Hypocrisy" is the right spelling.

I came up with "Hypocracy" as an insult against certain entities. It's an amalgamation of "Hypocrisy" and "Democracy".
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:28 AM
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3. Gee you must have loved TV this week with Bush all over it.
n/t
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:31 AM
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4. 'definately', 'here here' and 'tow the line' drive me batty
It's 'definitely', 'hear hear' and 'toe the line', thank you very much.
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:34 AM
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5. "Mute point" always gives me a laugh too.
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:38 AM
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6. But, truth be told
. . . I'm sure I misspell a lot too, and sometimes even with thinking about it I cannot be exactly sure of some grammatical item, such as occasionally a "whom vs. who."
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:49 AM
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7. "independant"
I see that one a lot.
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Drifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 07:53 AM
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8. The weird thing about the wierd thing ...
Edited on Sun Mar-21-04 07:55 AM by Drifter
is that both spellings look correct to me.

Most times when I misspell something, it usually jumps out at me and looks incorrect. Then I correct it.

I rarely correct my misspelling of the word wierd, because I rarely catch them. I do have to recite the i before e thing.

Cheers
Drifter

edit: spelling ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 08:04 AM
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9. Fiery
. . . as in when I'm accusing some GOPer of reading The Fiery Cross (Klan magazine). It just looks wrong.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 08:49 AM
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11. "loose" for "lose", et al... n/t
I said, n/t! :D

n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t n/t
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:22 AM
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12. moran instead of moron
eom
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:41 AM
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23. Moran is a correct spelling on DU
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:22 AM
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13. Reguarding i before e rule
Edited on Sun Mar-21-04 09:24 AM by rock
It's complete hogwash. It has so many exceptions that it's unusable.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:27 AM
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15. Yeah...
which makes it seem kind of silly that they drill it into the heads of schoolchildren at an early age, thus ensuring a lifetime of misspellings like "wierd" and "foriegn"...heh.

(oh, and by the way, it's "regarding"...lol...)
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:23 AM
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14. Actually, "tow the line" is an error in diction, not spelling
A fine point, yes, but aren't we supposed to nitpick on this type of thread? One error in diction that bothers me is the use of "jive" where "jibe" is correct. Here's a sentence that illustrates the difference: "If your facts don't jibe, you may be talking jive."
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 09:35 AM
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16. your v. you're
Sad. :eyes:
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Philosophy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 10:36 AM
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17. Whining v. Whinning
There was this dude from England who I used to debate in a newsgroup who spelled it this way all the time and he insisted that "whinning" is a real word in England that is different than "whining". According to him it means something like "whining very quietly". It's not in any dictionary that I've ever seen.
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 10:44 AM
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18. "Seperate" instead of "separate"
Hardly anyone gets it right. And as for improper pronunciation, "datta" for "day-ta" and "stattus" for "stay-tus."
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 10:58 AM
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19. "The Fact Of The Matter Is..."
that you only need to say "The fact is..."

-- Allen
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:02 AM
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21. And "What it is is..."
Just say it and leave out the purposeless "isness".
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:02 AM
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20. purpose, pursuit, asinine, loser, pigeon, capital/capitol
The maddening list goes on.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:34 AM
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22. Your vs. You're
This one really stands out for me.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 11:46 AM
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24. along with There, their, they're
I before E except after C, except for...
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:26 PM
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27. Yes, I see this one all the time.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:05 PM
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25. The word "tongue" gets misspelled a lot
Go to the body-piercing sites and groups and you'll hear from people who had their "tounge" pierced. Or their "tonge."

As body piercer Keith Alexander says, if you can't spell it you shouldn't have it pierced.
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WillyBrandt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:19 PM
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26. The most mispelled word is: Separate
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:50 PM
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29. LOL
years before spell-check I noticed in communications from a certain executive at work the constant use of the word SEPERATE. Since his letters were otherwise flawless I pointed it out to him - he insisted he was spelling it correctly and checked it out in the dictionary - he was so mortified to find out he was wrong. He got it right after that!
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:47 PM
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28. this is getting picky, but it's for its
People it's ALWAYS means IT IS unless you are referring to Cousin It's car !!!. :D
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Pax_Rat Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 12:55 PM
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30. should of
instead of "should've"

Piece!
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-04 01:58 PM
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31. They're their there
Hear Here!
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