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How can people misspell these words?

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When people hear the world lose with the longated "O"-sound, they automatically think it has to have two O's. It's quite logical. The word "Close" is pronounced in a different way even though being quite similar. If someone don't know english, the most logical thing is that the word lose should be pronounced "loas" and not "loose". It's confusing really, the english language is far from ideal.
 
What I don't like, is the fact that I am corrected (by Americans) for spelling words how they are spelt in my country (Canada).

Words like,
Colour, Centre, Favour, Favourite, Honour, Metre, Rumour etc.

Look, there are spelling differences, accept them and move on. I don't live in America, I don't need to spell words the way they are spelt there.
 
As a non-native english speaker, I try so hard to not mess up on some of these words, but sometimes they just slip through the cracks, and I have to edit my post with the speed of light.
I can't stand spelling errors.
 
Tristam said:
I hate seeing 'definately' (or worse, 'defiantly') for definitely.
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I used to have issues with this years ago, except it I would spell it as 'definitley' (l & e swapped) for some reason. Then I realized definitely is simply 'definite' + 'ly'. Simple as fuck.

Never had issues with getting the letter A in there, that's weird. And surely the only time people accidentally spell it as 'defiantly' is when they're typing it with auto-correct active, right?
 
brianmcdoogle said:
There are two words that I see constantly misspelled on the internet. The first is "rediculous" and the other is "loose". "Rediculous" makes sense, I suppose, since people probably pronounce the word horribly (red-iculous instead of rih-diculous), but how can people keep misspelling lose and "loose"? How do you think loose would be spelled? "Loooose"?

Any words you see constantly misspelled that make little sense to you? (first thread)
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Asside from stupid people who have no idea how to speak and write their own language, the internet also include billions of people who don't have English as their native language.
But thanx to people like you, we learn. And that's exactly what most people want. So keep up the good work, please.
 
Farooq said:
What I don't like, is the fact that I am corrected (by Americans) for spelling words how they are spelt in my country (Canada).

Words like,
Colour, Centre, Favour, Favourite, Honour, Metre, Rumour etc.

Look, there are spelling differences, accept them and move on. I don't live in America, I don't need to spell words the way they are spelt there.
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What I find fascinating though is you (mostly) talk like Americans. Not quite, but it's nothing more than a regional difference, like in the US itself, pretty slight. So why not spell like us?
 
DiscoJer said:
What I find fascinating though is you (mostly) talk like Americans. Not quite, but it's nothing more than a regional difference, like in the US itself, pretty slight. So why not spell like us?
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Woah, there's a Disco"Jer" on here? Weird. I take it you're not American?
 
Johnas said:
Sometimes I honestly believe that I am the only person on this forum who knows how to properly spell "whoa".

"Woah" is not a word, folks.
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Whoa is barely a word, for fucks sake. It has been degraded to a onomatopoeia.

Loose / lose is the only one that gets me, for the reasons the OP stated.
 
brianmcdoogle said:
There are two words that I see constantly misspelled on the internet. The first is "rediculous" and the other is "loose". "Rediculous" makes sense, I suppose, since people probably pronounce the word horribly (red-iculous instead of rih-diculous), but how can people keep misspelling lose and "loose"? How do you think loose would be spelled? "Loooose"?

Any words you see constantly misspelled that make little sense to you? (first thread)
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"Loose" is the most commonly misspelled word in English. "Separate" is second.

How can people do that, when even Neogaf has a spell-checker is a mystery to me.
 
DiscoJer said:
What I find fascinating though is you (mostly) talk like Americans. Not quite, but it's nothing more than a regional difference, like in the US itself, pretty slight. So why not spell like us?
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The question is, why doesn't the US spell like Canada, Britain, NZ, Aus etc? :p
 
because the english language... is a really bad language.
convoluted as fuck. since it isn't really based on sound and is wildly inconsistent.

I mean, look at these 3 words and how they are pronounced.
lose (louz)
loss (los)
loose (lous)

the reason loose and lose is often mispelled is because the only difference is the ending sound. Z and S.


Eym gonna byld a tym masheen tu gou bak en tym tu fiks dha englysh langwyj


byleev.
 
I die a little every time I see people fuck up "to" and "too" (Example: "I love you to") or misspell no one (Example: "Noone loves me").
 
Less/fewer (e.g. "less games") and number/amount (e.g. "amount of people").

Considering that no one makes the mistake when deciding between "how many" or "how much" and it's the exact same rule, it baffles me how more people seem to get it wrong than otherwise.
 
PoweredBySoy said:
No. The reason it is often misspelled is because Americans are a bunch of uneducated inbreds, addicted to texting and Youtube.

/lawn
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not really, i don't live in US, go to university and not inbred, yet I mistake both words all the time.
the spelling of the word doesn't match how it sounds which causes massive confusion.

the only answer is to nuke the english language. It is horrible.
 
I'm pretty sure they're actuallyw grammatically correct, at least in some parts of the world, but "learnt" and "smelt" drive me up the wall for reasons I am incapable of articulating.
 
I absolutely hate when people say loose for lose... I see it all the time on Facebook.

The one word I cannot spell is avaliable... I had to go against auto correct to type that :p
 
Raonak said:
not really, i don't live in US, go to university and not inbred, yet I mistake both words all the time.
the spelling of the word doesn't match how it sounds which causes massive confusion.

the only answer is to nuke the english language. It is horrible.
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You also don't seem to understand how to use capital letters, so I'm not sure you're the best example of an educated, literate, English-speaking individual.

Yeah, lose and loose are kind of similar words, but if you've ever read a damn book or two, it's really not hard to remember the difference. If you don't, then look it up every time you use one, and you'll eventually figure it out.

mysocksarepink said:
The one word I cannot spell is avaliable... I had to go against auto correct to type that :p
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See, there you go. Nobody's asking anybody to know every single word in the English language. We're just saying, hey, think about what you're writing, and if you're not sure if what you're writing is right, look it up. It's not hard. I don't know every single word! I often forget if it's maintenence or maintenance. Hey look, auto-correct says that maintenence is wrong, so it's probably maintenance. I'm using the tools at my disposal to solve a quick and easy problem. How about that?

(Also mysocksarepink, you still spelled available wrong.)
 
NekoFever said:
Lightening as well.
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This thread is enlighting!

really, I'm not a native speaker and make all kinds of errors I guess, but so far everthing listed in this thread would be freaking embarassing :D

Intensive purposes? Wat?
 
could/would/should of
rediculous
alot
loose instead of lose or vice versa
could care less

I don't understand how (or why...) one would use "of" instead of "have" in the first instance. Then there's "caring less", which is supposed to be self-explanatory.
 
KevinCow said:
You also don't seem to understand how to use capital letters, so I'm not sure you're the best example of an educated, literate, English-speaking individual.

Yeah, lose and loose are kind of similar words, but if you've ever read a damn book or two, it's really not hard to remember the difference. If you don't, then look it up every time you use one, and you'll eventually figure it out.



See, there you go. Nobody's asking anybody to know every single word in the English language. We're just saying, hey, think about what you're writing, and if you're not sure if what you're writing is right, look it up. It's not hard. I don't know every single word! I often forget if it's maintenence or maintenance. Hey look, auto-correct says that maintenence is wrong, so it's probably maintenance. I'm using the tools at my disposal to solve a quick and easy problem. How about that?

(Also mysocksarepink, you still spelled available wrong.)
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I said I had to go against autocorrect's correction to type that (meaning I meant to type it incorrectly ;))
 
KevinCow said:
You also don't seem to understand how to use capital letters, so I'm not sure you're the best example of an educated, literate, English-speaking individual.

Yeah, lose and loose are kind of similar words, but if you've ever read a damn book or two, it's really not hard to remember the difference. If you don't, then look it up every time you use one, and you'll eventually figure it out.



See, there you go. Nobody's asking anybody to know every single word in the English language. We're just saying, hey, think about what you're writing, and if you're not sure if what you're writing is right, look it up. It's not hard. I don't know every single word! I often forget if it's maintenence or maintenance. Hey look, auto-correct says that maintenence is wrong, so it's probably maintenance. I'm using the tools at my disposal to solve a quick and easy problem. How about that?

(Also mysocksarepink, you still spelled available wrong.)
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This. I usually just throw the word into Google, which gives me the correct spelling every time. I'd rather do that than come across as some illiterate hick on a message board.
 
Always been a grammar/spelling nazi and the things mentioned in here definitely drive me up the wall. Even as a non-native English speaker, the only one in here I struggle with sometimes is farther/further.
 
Pretty much all misspellings bother the hell out of me, especially considering the fact that most web browsers have fucking spell-check built in!

What bothers me even more than spelling errors, themselves, is the general attitude that people display when corrected on them. They act as if they will continue misspelling it out of pride because "it doesn't really matter."
 
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