Tucson Writers Workshop - Resources For Writers
This is designed to be a resource center for those of us who like to write. The Internet is such a vast place that we can only begin to cover all the excellent sites out there. But we'll sample them together, and learn from the experience. This is also the place to share your favorite books with the rest of the group, using the comments section to leave your own list, and to tell us the reasons why.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Writing Lessons - Part 2
Misspelled Mistakes
So now I have another complaint: Commonly misspelled words.
I think there are certain reasons for the common misspelling of words...other than obvious typos.
And of course, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're on, you may also exclude or include many different alternative spellings for words like humerous and humorous.
Maybe it's just me, but I wince quite often as I read the words that are published online. After all, we live in the AGE OF SPELL CHECK.
Maybe I'm just too self indulgent about my pet peeves.
However, there are certain misspelled words that I find particularly painful. The painful words are ones that are commonly used, and therefore theoretically easy to remember and yet, commonly misspelt.
I don't intend to make this a big project, but I might add significant typos as I notice them.
Please feel free to add words that could be appended to this list.
Commonly encountered misspelling of the word is followed by the correct version:
commerical - commercial
definately - definitely
diffrent - different
existance - existence
mispell - misspell
occured - occurred
persistant - persistent
responsability - responsibility
sentance - sentence
speach - speech
tendancy - tendency
usefull - useful
wierd - weird
See, that's a short list...for now.
And the nervous tic will stop in a few minutes I hope.
