Words you still have trouble spelling

[Mikey]

Being from the East Coast, a big improper word I use often in writing and talking is YOUS..

As in (talking to many people) Hey yous guys-- or--Yous should see this

In the south they say you-all or y'all.

[Meule]

I am a decent speller, or atleast I will know how to spell a different word than the one I cannot spell to get the same meaning across.

I have always spelled these words like this and spell check says no:

alittle
atleast

Is this correct in some spellings? The on-line dictionary says no as well. I am sure ABMAC will know!!!

The way I learned it it's "a little" and "at least", two words

[Bo8a_Fett]

I read a dictionary once....I thought it was a poem about everything..

[theantiquetiger]

I am a decent speller, or atleast I will know how to spell a different word than the one I cannot spell to get the same meaning across.

I have always spelled these words like this and spell check says no:

alittle
atleast

Is this correct in some spellings? The on-line dictionary says no as well. I am sure ABMAC will know!!!

[Bo8a_Fett]

Thast a lot of maspilt wards my friynd

[Adam West]

I really have never had too much trouble with spelling. As someone else posted, I usually only make spelling errors when I am typing too fast. Here is a list of some of the most commonly misspelled words (misspelled is one of them). Try them out on your significant other and see how many they get wrong.

absence
embarrass
occasion
absurd
environment
occurred
accidentally
equipped
occurrence
accommodate
escape
omitted
across
exaggerate
opportunity
advertisement
excellent
parallel
all right
existence
parliament
amateur
experience
performance
athletics
familiar
permanent
attendance
fascinate
pleasant
beginning
February
possess
believe
foreign
prejudice
business
forty
privilege
coming
government
professor
committee
grammar
receive
condemn
guidance
recommend
conscious
humorous
repetition
convenient
imaginary
restaurant
correspondence
immediately
rhythm
criticize
independent
schedule
definite
irresistible
separate
dependent
laboratory
similar
descend
lightning
success
description
losing
surprise
desperate
lovely
tragedy
develop
misspelled
truly
difference
necessary
villain
disappoint
neighbor
weird
dispensable
niece
writing

[Meule]

I hope my "lesson" was tactful.

I got you on a good day

I applaud your efforts to learn our language as it should be, instead of how it too often is. I sincerely appreciate it. As Poe would say, "Thou art the man!"

And thank you, much appreciated

[ABMAC]

I probably don't have to tell everyone how hard it is fo me sometimes

Although improper English usage annoys me, I enjoy figuring out why certain words are so often misspelled. A lot of spelling and grammar mistakes are perpetuated by the advertising and entertainment industries in anglophone countries, and many people assume that whatever is commonly used by the media must not only be acceptable, but that it must also be correct. You're better able to see the mistakes, because you aren't constantly bombarded with them the way we are. It's almost as difficult for us to learn proper English as it is for you, because we see it so rarely.

The thing I find most unusual is the fact that you write awesome with an "e" and awful without an "e". Thanks for that lesson, Ant

My pleasure. The reason for the confusion is obvious, so it's excusable. I hope my "lesson" was tactful.

I applaud your efforts to learn our language as it should be, instead of how it too often is. I sincerely appreciate it. As Poe would say, "Thou art the man!"

[MegoGeek]

When I am typing fast I almost always type "you're" as "your".

It annoys the crap out of me because I know better.

[thunderbolt]

You guys should be married to a an English major and get corrected on grammar all the time, spelling a i've gotten down pretty good thanks to her.

[Meule]

I probably don't have to tell everyone how hard it is fo me sometimes
The thing I find most unusual is the fact that you write awesome with an "e" and awful without an "e". Thanks for that lesson, Ant

[huedell]

Wednesday, January, and Februrary are all very important words--- and much used words
---- and I still don't know how to spell them

[MegoNinja]

how about concieve? or however you spell it? Is it me or does ie and ei words really screw you around?

[RG]

This has been doing the rounds for a few years but it seems appropriate(is that spet right?) here
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
So much for spelling...there ya go Russ

When someone first gave me that on a sheet of paper to read out loud, in a group of 10 people in a night class I took, I read it as if it were the front page of the paper without a single stall, lol. Makes me feel better becasue it proves a person doesn't have to be good at spelling to be able to read. I had teachers in grade school and Jr. High always put me in the lower reading classes becasue I couldn't spell good, but I'd blow ahead of them in books we read in class, and could understand what I read better than some of those super spellers

[thunderbolt]

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