According to this these are the top twenty words that are most commonly spelled incorrectly;
1. Separate 2. Definitely 3. Manoeuvre 4. Embarrass
5. Occurrence 6. Consensus 7. Unnecessary 8. Acceptable
9. Broccoli 10. Referred 11. Bureaucracy 12. Supersede
13. Questionnaire 14. Connoisseur 15. A lot 16. Entrepreneur
17. Particularly 18. Liquefy 19. Conscience 20. Parallel
Yup, I pretty much muck all of them up.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Top twenty mis-spelt words
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I'm surprised that minuscule isn't on the list.
did you spell them all wrong on purpose? or are some of them right, bloody heck this is a nightmare.
Borough was always one I could never get my head round
English teacher's guilty confession: I have a nasty habit of buggering up 'bureaucracy', plus 'manoeuvre' can still cause me problems. Words like 'separate' and 'definitely' are well-known tricky spellings - I've drilled pupils in them so many times it would be embarrassing (there's another one) if I didn't know them.
I’ve had it checked – they are correct.
The thing I find most annoying is that my fingers seem to mis-spell words my brain knows perfectly well.
Particular is one, specifically is another – I just can’t seem to type the letters in the right order for some reason.
As someone who teaches Politics, I find students struggle with Parliament, Government, constituency and some have a strange habit of making Prime Minister into one word.
Jim, when you get the chance :)
http://modernityblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/the-greens-and-racism/
I get almost all of those wrong, especially no.1 and no.2. In fact, in e-mails, where I have no spell checker, I've learned to avoid ever using them. Most of the others too, but never unnecessary or a lot. (My mother taught me necessary: one collar and two socks - and unnecessary seems obvious once you've got this.)
Also: personell, viscious, privelige.
Oh, and propoganda
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