How many errors can you find in this picture

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   Misbah786posted 3 years ago

   Hello Beautiful Souls,
   
   This is an image I captured from HP's newsletter that was sent out today. Is it true that there are some mistakes in it? Or am I mistaken? I am puzzled.
   
   
   
   Thank you in advance!
   
   Blessings to everyone!

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   Jodahposted 3 years ago

   Yes, Misbah, you are correct. I saw one mistake as soon as I read it.
   3. Recieve….recieve (both the same) but the correct spelling is “receive.”

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you so much, John. What about the last one?

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   Jodahposted 3 years ago

   Publicity is a correct word…the other is supposedly how people often incorrectly spell it but I have never seen it used that way.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Exactly, I have never seen someone using any other spellings for Publicity. Maybe they made a mistake and wanted to give an example of Publically and Publicly. I believe, publically is nonstandard. It is common, but not considered correct: The proper form is publicly. But when I put both spellings in Grammarly it considers both spellings as correct. So what's the error in the last word? Just wondering.....
      
      https://www.dailywritingtips.com/public … ublically/
      
      Thank you so much, John
      Blessings always!!

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         bravewarriorposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Publicity and publicly are two entirely different words. HP spelled publicly wrong in addition to receive.
         
         I noticed that, too, when I read the newsletter. I wonder who proofed/edited the newsletter before hitting the Send button?!

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            Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Shauna, I was wondering the same thing. But I believe Rupert's observation is correct.
            Blessings to you!

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   AliciaCposted 3 years ago

   I've read that publically is a variant of publicly (at least in British English), but the second term is said to be the more common way to spell the word.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, exactly. The HP newsletter says that the Oxford dictionary did some research and compiled a list of the top 10 most misspelled words. So this is what the actual list says:
      https://thelanguagenerds.com/2020/the-1 … ictionary/
      Thank you so much, Linda.
      Blessings to you!!

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   Jodahposted 3 years ago

   So it was HubPages that copied them incorrectly, not the Oxford Dictionary.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Exactly!

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      bravewarriorposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Did you really have any doubt, John?

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         Jodahposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Nope..lol. It was good to see the original by The Oxford Dictionary though, as confirmation.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 3 years ago

   It was a deliberate mistake to test how many of us are paying attention. At least, that's what I would say.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Who knows? If so, was it just me who was paying attention?
      Thank you for your kind response.
      Blessings to you!

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 3 years ago

   ... well, at least they tried.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Lol! Loved that!!
      Blessings to you!!

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   Rupert Taylorposted 3 years ago

   Shauna. It doesn't matter how many times a piece of text about spelling is proofread because of the activity of a gremlin. It's installed on every computer, or in my earlier days, an Underwood typewriter. It has a single purpose in life and that is to sabotage any writing about spelling.
   
   It sits in the machinery silently waiting, sometimes for years, until it detects that someone is writing about spelling. Then, it goes to work and switches the connection between certain keys and what appears on the page. But, the devilish thing is that it conceals the changed letters from the writer so that the typos pass undetected.
   
   I speak from bitter experience. Never, ever write about pellig.

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      bravewarriorposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Hahahahaha, Rupert! You always make me laff.

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      Misbah786posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Nuff! Please, no more mispelings.

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   MariaMontgomeryposted 3 years ago

   Love that comment from you, Rupert.

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