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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   I need a list of all those words we can't remember the correct spellings for - like "misspell" 
   
   scarey? or scary?  (as in frightening)
   
   necessary?  or neccesary?
   
   some of these I have to look up over and over and still can't remember - so I need a list to put on the wall next to my computer -  please help!

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      sofsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      recieve or receive
      believe or beleive
      
      fearfull or fearful

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         camloposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Receive - just remember i before e except after c.

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      Lisa HWposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Maybe a trick for "necessary" is to keep in mind that "c" comes before before "s" in the alphabet, and that 1 comes before 2 (numbers-wise).    So - 1 "c", 2 "s's".

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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   although or all though?
   
   friend or freind?
   
   sleepyness?  or sleepiness?

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      Lisa HWposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      With "friend" keep in mind that "friend" rhymes with "end". 
      
      With "sleepiness" I guess the only trick to  remember that there isn't very often a "y" that doesn't get changed if more is added to the end of the word.

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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   another bad one for me:
   
   possesive or posessive? or possessive?

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   ns1209posted 12 years ago

   scary
   friend
   sleepiness
   receive - i before e except after c
   although
   believe
   fearful
   
   Hope that helps

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   luvpassionposted 12 years ago

   nome or gnome

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   ralwusposted 12 years ago

   ralwus or walrus
   meaga or meega or mega
   maybe omeaga, or is it omega
   meeger pickins I'd sey

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      sofsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Walrus of course!!    

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      Lisa HWposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      ..and that ever challenging - WryLilt (or Wry Lilt or WryLit or WryLitt....     ).

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   klarawieckposted 12 years ago

   Whiskey or WestKey? lol

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   ralwusposted 12 years ago

   whiksey

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   Ginger Meowposted 12 years ago

   wiss...hic...kee...hic

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      thirdmilleniumposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      hahaha

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    ralwusposted 12 years ago

    burrrrp or birp or byrp!

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    Mighty Momposted 12 years ago

    discreet or discrete
    (or indiscreet, more applicable here in the forums:-)

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    Ginger Meowposted 12 years ago

    tyre or tire
    
    color or colour
    
    analyse or analize

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    Moonchild60posted 12 years ago

    govenor, I always get it wrong, I believe it is governor.
    I always have to spell check it to get it right.

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    mega1posted 12 years ago

    its really funny how often I see stuff all over the internet misspelled in really creative ways and start wondering if people are doing it on purpose to get attention or if they just don't care.
    
    and then when I start to make my list, I can't remember most of them!

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    lorlie6posted 12 years ago

    Cantaloupe or cantalope?  Ahh, the red wavy line tells me 'a' is correct!

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       ralwusposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       candleoped with the labra

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    CMCastroposted 12 years ago

    Is it occassional or is it occasional?

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    mega1posted 12 years ago

    vicious?  viscious?

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    HOLLYWOODHYPEposted 12 years ago

    This is a wonderful way to limber up the mind. I always try two
    words that sound the same but mean different things, like: mean,to and two, watt and what, blue and blew, raise and raze.  You get the drift.  I confess to being a bit OCD so this is one of the ways to get control of my mind.  - Barbra-Lee -

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    evilsarahposted 12 years ago

    Speek or Speak
    Speech or Speach
    
    and Which Steel is Steal

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    JayDeckposted 12 years ago

    personal and personnel always a good one.

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    kookoo88posted 12 years ago

    grey or gray?  I like grey.
    
    would've, not "would of"

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    FloBeposted 12 years ago

    These are commonly used incorrectly:
    there, their, they're
    your, you're

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    H.C Porterposted 12 years ago

    Conscience, relatable (is that how you spell it?), necessary inconvenience

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    Ben Evansposted 12 years ago

    Hay, let me tell you a storey
    about a mind gone deft.
    Stupiditey is cleaver
    leaving inteligese beereft.
    
    So some my call me crazey
    with the way I spill.
    My leters poor onto the paper
    and they have there own will.
    
    I never mint to misspel
    and too some they will sea
    it is not my intint
    to color with literery indigency.
    
    Yes when i tipe
    my paige is full of red lines.
    She said it is oky
    it is what it deefines.
    
    So sintax is my weekness
    and at speling Im no guroo.
    So I say Im sorey
    as I scratch in pane while looking at yew.

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       Jaggedfrostposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       crap, and I was going to write a satire on this very subject, it looks like you very much got there first and did it so well that i am not sure I can better it.

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    drbjposted 12 years ago

    separate is often misspelled

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    ninerposted 12 years ago

    I can never spell and always mix up conscious vs conscience.
    
    I've noticed that disappoint is often spelt with two s's, too.

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       Druid Dudeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I spell OK, but OK is pretty bad for someone who used to be a "Contender" for the title. I'm less concerned with the rules than I am sounding like I'm half literate. Spelling is becoming a lost art. I glad if I can just get a point across.

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          Druid Dudeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          I'm glad. SEE?

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    kookoo88posted 12 years ago

    though, through, throughout, and thought  all get confused with each other quite often.
    
    As do quite, quit, and quiet.

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    camloposted 12 years ago

    I was having a problem with 'maintenance' last night. I wrote 'maintainance', but knew it looked wrong. The dictionary didn't help me either, because I didn't know how to spell it.
    Hmmm - then a page on Hubpages told me HP was down for 'maintenance' and the problem was solved, except I'd already posted my message using 'repairs etc.'.
    
    I find the more I think of how to spell a word, the more confused I become.

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    cookibuqposted 12 years ago

    I always get mixed up with how many m's or r's are in tomorrow for some reason...Right now I'm reading from the dictionary

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    Lady Wordsmithposted 12 years ago

    Practise and practice, licence and license.
    
    And I am still hanging on to my Brit spellings of organise, and socialise, and apologise, and anything-ise.  I think I'm in a club with a dwindling membership

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       Jaggedfrostposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       perhaps but those of us who are left are more golden for our rarity.

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          Lady Wordsmithposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Oh, I like that jaggedfrost, more golden   I'm cheered, very cheered.

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    lyndreposted 12 years ago

    Buy a feckin dictionery or dictionary?

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    MOlmsteadposted 12 years ago

    definately and definitely

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    MOlmsteadposted 12 years ago

    definately and definitely

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