100 Most Commonly Misspelled Words in American English
Thursday
May 7, 2009
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 |
Cribbed Content for January 23rd
Friday
Jan 23, 2009
Unfortunately I was sick the beginning part of the week, so I had a lot of stuff to catch up on, but I also haven’t had much time to look around the web. I spent yesterday at the LinkShare Symposium West 2009 in San Francisco, and I’ll give you all a quick update soon. In the meantime, here’s some things you may have missed while you were welcoming in President Obama on Tuesday…
- Still confused about how to use WordPress for your blog? Last Saturday they turned on WordPress.tv with a ton of video tutorials that should help you learn all there is to know about WordPress.
- There are recaps up on the Affiliate Summit Blog of some of the sessions I didn’t attend. Social Media Dude Michael Buechele did a good job getting good coverage:
- I don’t read SEO stuff nearly as much as I probably should but there’s an intriguing piece from seoMoz on 10 Irrational Human Behaviors and How to Leverage Them to Improve Web Marketing. Very interesting stuff here.
- It pays to share posts through Google Reader! Otherwise I never would have found this awesome article on What a “Personal Brand” is NOT by Tom Peters. Good read.
- I’m a big proponent of proper grammar and spelling, but I do break those rules on Twitter with the 140 character limit, so I was amused to read about 8 Spelling & Grammar Rules You Can Break on Twitter.
Blogging: The Root of all Evil?
Thursday
Aug 21, 2008
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? 
