Words You Consistently Misspell

X - Odeyssey
X - Odysey
X - Odessey
* - Odyssey

X - Defenite
X - Definent
X - Definete
* - Definite

There are others, but those two are the most annoying to me.

Definitely.

I've seen at least ten different spellings of that one here.

Drives me crazy.

Colour, Labour, Humour etc :p

happenned

Whenever i am writing this word, i wonder whethere there are two n or one.

However, some of the "o/u" cases can go both ways...for example :

Neighbor / Neighbour

Favorite / Favourite


One word that I NEVER get right :

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

mis - wha? mispel? ME? I nevah mis-pel anithin so ya knov! Duh.

"hard attack" is one.... :p

Although, I usually only use this term at work, I always, always have to think when I type, "In lieu of" or is it "In leiu of?" I before E except after C and then I forgot the rest.

Another: Commitment/committment?


TIS

Commitment

BUT :

-Committee

-Committed suicide

My achilles' heal word is "accommodate." I always get tripped up if there are supposed to be 1 or 2 Ms.


My pet peeves for misspellings are:

INCORRECT vs. CORRECT
definately - definitely

judgement - judgment (this is spelled wrong frequently. I get so annoyed when I see it spelled incorrectly on television. There is no excuse on tv)

misspelt - misspelled

My pet peeves are the 2 more simple ones (and I'm sure they've been covered in other threads):

"your" for "you are" ("you're)
"there" for "their" (or even for "they're," i.e., "they are")

The ones that make me have to hesitate and think about the spelling are words like desperate, environment, occasion, and portrayal.

Actually mine are more typos. Strange but true, I make more mistakes in Italian than in English, maybe 'cause I pay more attention to what I'm typing. In Italian I often happen to type "coniglio" instead of "consiglio". Consider that "coniglio" means "rabbit" and "consiglio" means "council". Believe me, "General rabbit" instead of "general council" can be a deadly embarassing typo!!!!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia -

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

Now that's funny!

I think that's French, so it's definitely 'in lieu of'.

You're right, it makes me crazy about they're, their, there, your, you're, or people who use apostrophe s improperly. I used to be a prrofreader and it really drives me crazy.

FCUK

Significant or Signifigant.

In the world of Telephone Engineering we place cable in the air, on poles of course or in the ground - buried. Many people in the industry spell it - burried. I would ask them if that is like the cookies - Burry's.

I always misspell Jebus er...I mean Jesus.