100 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in American English
I’ve been seeing a lot of freakin’ misspellings lately, so I’m going to share this list with you for fun! And, for your own education if you’re not the best speller!
| acceptable | accidentally | accommodate |
| acquire | acquit | a lot |
| amateur | apparent | argument |
| atheist | believe | bellwether |
| calendar | category | cemetery |
| changeable | collectible | column |
| committed | conscience | conscientious |
| conscious | consensus | daiquiri |
| definite (ly) | discipline | drunkenness |
| dumbbell | embarrass (ment) | equipment |
| exhilarate | exceed | existence |
| experience | fiery | foreign |
| gauge | grateful | guarantee |
| harass | height | hierarchy |
| humorous | ignorance | immediate |
| independent | indispensable | inoculate |
| intelligence | its/it’s | jewelry |
| judgment | kernel (colonel) | leisure |
| liaison | library | license |
| lightning | maintenance | maneuver |
| medieval | memento | millennium |
| miniature | minuscule | mischievous |
| misspell | neighbor | noticeable |
| occasionally | occurrence | pastime |
| perseverance | personnel | playwright |
| possession | precede | principal/principle |
| privilege | pronunciation | publicly |
| questionnaire | receive/receipt | recommend |
| referred | reference | relevant |
| restaurant | rhyme | rhythm |
| schedule | separate | sergeant |
| supersede | their/they’re/there | threshold |
| twelfth | tyranny | until |
| vacuum | WXYZ | weather |
| weird |
Blogging: The Root of all Evil?
Is blogging the root of all evil? This argument is swaying, even for me as a blogger.
On some level, I have to agree. Blogging has turned many people into increasingly poorer writers. This “First draft culture” that he describes isn’t too far off, I’m afraid. This ties into a post by Jim Kukral a couple weeks back titled Your Grammar & Spelling Is Going to Ruin Your Career. I have to agree, as grammar and spelling have ALWAYS been pet peeves of mine; even in casual conversation it KILLS me to hear someone say “more better” or “funner”!
Remember that web content doesn’t go away. Archives endure and even if you completely delete your blog…chances are cached pages will exist somewhere. So do yourself a favor and treat blogging like a real job that you’re getting paid a lot of money for if you ever want to advance your career and actually get paid to blog.
And listen to some of these points and try to straighten up & fly right, will ya? 😛
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