Spellings that are incorrect but sometimes people believe to be...

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1. Karma Sutra (not the band)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

2. comming.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

3. refridgerator

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

4.Sheepdippe

― Dark Cilla (alix), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

5. definately

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

maintainance

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

privelege

― gem (trisk), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

― gem (trisk), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

8 consistant
9 independant

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

10 defendent

― gem (trisk), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

11 grammer

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

seperate

― gem (trisk), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

13. accomodation
14. lacksadaisical
15. suspiscious

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

BTW, here are two threads on ILM about common misspellings of names and titles.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

16. Guage
17. Facist

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

18. diahorrea

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

19. definately

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

bookeeper

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

enviroment

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Britteny Speers

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

The king of this thread:

23. alot

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

24. pwned

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

25. decieve
26. disipline
27. exsepcional
28. spesial
29. februairy
30. exagerrate
31. freinds
32. immedietly
33. interupt
34. languich
35. manouver
36. nither
37. opporttunnity

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Friday, 28 October 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm always (ooh, that's another one — allways) shocked by the number of people who think lose has two O's in it.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

38. thankyou

... as in all one word

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Is calling someone a looser an ad homonym attack?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

39. wierd

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

xxpost No, that would make you a moran.

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

40. expresso

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

FP, that is the one that never fails to make me cross.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

41. Milennium
42. Stationary (to mean paper and envelopes)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

43. Acommodation

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

44. Millenium

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

45. ADLER ARGH MY NAME IS NOT ADLER

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

46. !!!!!!!!1

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

47. Conelly/ Conally/ Conolly/ Connely/ Connoly
48. Donelly/ Donally/ Donolly/ Donnely/ Donnoly

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

49. g-klit

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

50. Bald cunt

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Dada but those are genuine alternate spellings! There are about 20 different ways of spelling Katharine/Catherine/Katherine/Catharine/Kathryn etc but I don't say that the others are WRONG, they are just not my name.

Anyway, this thread makes me too depressed as I've been guilty of most of these. It's not that I *believe* those words are spelled that way, it's just that I can't remember how they are spelled.

Except Mischeviously. That is a word I *BELIEVE* should be spelled that way.

― Atheist of Love (kate), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

aye, stop calling me g-klit.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

... they are not alternate spellings! There's two Ns and two Ls in both names!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

51. restauranteur
52. opthamology
53. pronounciation

and you can't really count names - people can spell names any way they want - especially in "new world" settings...

― Lumsden, Friday, 28 October 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

... you mean, in America? Oh, fair enough.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

and by "people can spell names any way they want" i of course mean their own names.

i might become Robby Lumpsden.

xpost

― Lumsden, Friday, 28 October 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

i might start spelling my name Gr3g k1773n. i'd like to see that on my council tax book.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

53. pronounciation

I would add to that, that anyone who pronounces the word 'pronunciation' with the second syllable sounding like 'noun' instead of 'nun' should be shot.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

As one of my teachers once said:

"It's easy to avoid getting staionary and stationery mixed-up — stationery is sold by a stationer , while a stationar is where a pirate catches a train."

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

i quite agree.

also people who refer to someone who has been strung up as being "hung". yuck.

xpost

― Lumsden, Friday, 28 October 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

people who pronounce pronunciation as pronounciation should be popel shot

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

priviledge

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

54. people shooting

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

principle when they mean principal

― robster (robster), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

affect/ effect
practice/ practise

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

their / there / they're

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

dissapointed

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

welcome to the internet. xpost

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

your / you're
accept / except
passed / past

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

should of
could of
would of

... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

who's / whose

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

23b (supplement to Mark C's "alot"): "allot"

Is calling someone a looser an ad homonym attack?

Hahaha, excellent.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

should of
could of
would of

There's an ilXor who uses "sort've", which is this in reverse.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

... well that's inventive at least

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

There's two, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

But one prominent ILXor, yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

He says "kind've" too.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I am in no way shape or form affiliated, BUT...

Klu Klux Klan

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I am shocked at how many of my well-educated friends write "tommorrow."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

'license' or 'licence' ? WHO KNOWS

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Wendesday

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking of starting a thread like this to type

cappucino

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

i was going to say wendesday too

anything with 'ie' in that's not pronounced 'ee'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

spegatti

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

licence (n)
license (v)

practice (n)
practise (v)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

That was an answer for Ste.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

cool thanks, that will shut a few people up who i work with.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Re that ce/se ending, the trick is to devise a device to help you remember which is the noun and which the verb.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Is that correct? I thought it was a UK/US thing, "-ce" being the US ending, "-se" the UK.

But now that I look at it and look it up, I see that I was wrong!
US: license, practice
UK: licence, practise

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

int he us is different yes

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Is there is a UK/US divide over offence/offense?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

There is over all those ence/ense words, isn't there?

perrenial (everyone can spell "annual" but they can't move those two n's over to perennial)
fushcia (the plant was identified by a German named Fuchs, so if you're a nerd like me you can remember the right spelling that way)
Ceasar

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

License (US) vs. licence (UK) is the tricky one because it seems to be an exception to the rule.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I used to get all judgmental about people who wrote "judgement" instead of "judgment," only to find out that both spellings are allowed. Grr. "Judgement" still looks wrong to me.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with would've, could've, should've, sort've? etc?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

The first three are fine - but try to expand the fourth.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I think they're allowable if you're writing dialogue or writing an ILX post. I don't know about "sort've," though. I'd go for "sorta."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I used to get all judgmental about people who wrote "judgement" instead of "judgment,"

That reminds me for some reason of this one:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,590,000 for knowlege. (0.26 seconds)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Another two wrong spellings that won't raise asn eyebrow most of the time...

Diptheria
Miniscule

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

teh

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Micheal

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to take back "knowlege." Despite the big google stats, no half-literate person looks at that and doesn't know it's wrong.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

embarrasing/embarassing etc.

― Roz (Roz), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

But I will add this classic:

mispelling

and it's kissin' cousin

newstand

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

And "it's" meaning "its"
And "your" for "you're"

Or even "you" for "your"

But maybe these are more commonly encountered typos.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Whatever number we're on: Liquify
Whatever number we're on +1: Just Desserts

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

People writing "nevermind" as one word (when not talking about Nirvana) irks me.

― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Wikipedia says that "teh" originated as a common typo for "the." That NEVER happpens to me. I always type "hte."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Couldn't you basically classify ALL misspellings that aren't typos under this category? I don't understand the distinction here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I think it means misspellings that you see often enough or have made yourself or have seen smart people make, so that you don't automatically think the person is an idiot for making them.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 28 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

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