What words do you constantly spell incorrectly?

2»

Comments

  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited March 2011
    What word do I spell incorrectly? Convenience. I for some reason spell it Convinience all the time. But luckiry spelt checkar cathces it.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    cfrizz wrote: »
    Canceled is American spelling & cancelled is British. Microsoft Word will accept either version.

    We spell honor, they spell honour. The list of different spellings between our two countries is endless.

    LOL A former coworker of mine had me check a letter for her before she sent it out. It was fine, but I had to have her correct her British spellings reminding her that this wasn't England or Jamaica.

    YOU WIN! Either is acceptable.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    YOU WIN! Either is acceptable.

    That sounds like hippie talk to me!
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    Another often misspelled word: "conscience"

    His bad deed was bothering his conscience.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    conscience.

    What's that? :confused:
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Another often misspelled word: "conscience"

    His bad deed was bothering his conscience.

    Every time I have to spell that word, the thing that pops into my head is Helen Hunt in "As Good As It Gets" (yeah whatever I'm ****), when she's writing a letter and says "con-science? That can't be right" or something to that effect.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    What's that? :confused:

    Con-shinse--like having a guilty conscience.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Con-shinse--like having a guilty conscience.

    I'm not followin'.
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Labtop when laptop is clearly meant.

    Wondering when wandering is clearly meant. You wander down a path. You wonder what is down the path you are wandering on.

    Contrarily, "labtop" is actually being coined by some technology companies to describe a stationary lab of laptops that are on desks instead of in a cart.
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
    mystik610 wrote: »
    Best Buy is for people who don't know any better. Magnolia is for people who don't know any better and have more money to spend.
    My System:


    TV: SAMSUNG UN55B7000 55" 1080p LED HDTV
    HTPC: Chromecast w/ Plex Media Server. Media streamed from Media Server.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2011
    conscience [kon-shuhns]

    –noun
    1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
    2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
    3. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
    4. conscientiousness.
    5. Obsolete . consciousness; self-knowledge.
    6. Obsolete . strict and reverential observance.
    —Idioms
    7. have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong: She behaves as if she had something on her conscience.
    8. in all conscience,
    a. in all reason and fairness.
    b. certainly; assuredly.
    Also, in conscience.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    conscience [kon-shuhns]

    ?noun
    1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
    2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
    3. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
    4. conscientiousness.
    5. Obsolete . consciousness; self-knowledge.
    6. Obsolete . strict and reverential observance.
    ?Idioms
    7. have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong: She behaves as if she had something on her conscience.
    8. in all conscience,
    a. in all reason and fairness.
    b. certainly; assuredly.
    Also, in conscience.

    Sounds like crazy talk to me! :tongue:
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    Contrarily, "labtop" is actually being coined by some technology companies to describe a stationary lab of laptops that are on desks instead of in a cart.

    "coined terms" are still bogus.

    Just like all this "conscience" malarkey that steveinaz is talkin' about.

    What's with that guy anyway?
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    "coined terms" are still bogus.

    Granted, "coined terms" aren't official, but there have been many cases where a term becomes commonly used, and ends up in the dictionary.

    Google anyone?
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
    mystik610 wrote: »
    Best Buy is for people who don't know any better. Magnolia is for people who don't know any better and have more money to spend.
    My System:


    TV: SAMSUNG UN55B7000 55" 1080p LED HDTV
    HTPC: Chromecast w/ Plex Media Server. Media streamed from Media Server.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    Granted, "coined terms" aren't official, but there have been many cases where a term becomes commonly used, and ends up in the dictionary.

    Google anyone?

    Yeah but it takes a decade or more to get it done and even then, it has to have a common enough usage with a common definition across all usage. The word "ain't" which isn't a word is in the dictionary and it took hundreds of years to get there. Even at that, it's still listed as slang and improper usage because it is a contraction for words that do not exist. It commonly refers to "am not" as in "I ain't gonna skin no roadkill what you dun gon and picked up with tha **** scoopin' shovel, Cletus."

    Proper terms would be "I am not going to skin any roadkill that you picked up with the **** scooping shovel, Cletus."

    The proper contraction of "am not" would be amn't which...yeah, say it out loud. "Ai not" though? Yeah, say that out loud too. Doesn't fly.

    So, like your mom said, just because all your friends jumped off the bridge doesn't mean you should do it too (or "doesn't mean it makes it right").
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Yeah but it takes a decade or more to get it done and even then, it has to have a common enough usage with a common definition across all usage. The word "ain't" which isn't a word is in the dictionary and it took hundreds of years to get there. Even at that, it's still listed as slang and improper usage because it is a contraction for words that do not exist. It commonly refers to "am not" as in "I ain't gonna skin no roadkill what you dun gon and picked up with tha **** scoopin' shovel, Cletus."

    Proper terms would be "I am not going to skin any roadkill that you picked up with the **** scooping shovel, Cletus."

    The proper contraction of "am not" would be amn't which...yeah, say it out loud. "Ai not" though? Yeah, say that out loud too. Doesn't fly.

    So, like your mom said, just because all your friends jumped off the bridge doesn't mean you should do it too (or "doesn't mean it makes it right").

    Wait, your mom told you NOT to jump off?
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
    mystik610 wrote: »
    Best Buy is for people who don't know any better. Magnolia is for people who don't know any better and have more money to spend.
    My System:


    TV: SAMSUNG UN55B7000 55" 1080p LED HDTV
    HTPC: Chromecast w/ Plex Media Server. Media streamed from Media Server.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • seeclear
    seeclear Posts: 1,242
    edited March 2011
    Another one that just kills me is the improper use of "less" vs "fewer".

    Just so's you knows, it is less for words that are singular--less water, less ozone.

    Fewer for words that are plural--fewer people, fewer jelly beans.

    I've seen that one used improperly in advertisements, news reports, all over the place and it just chaps my ****$.

    Rant over, carry on. :biggrin:
    "Don't forget to change your politician. They are like diapers they need to be changed regularly, and for the same reason."
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    Irregardless is not a word. Regardless of what anyone who actually uses it thinks.

    Also, if you could care less that means you actually give a hoot to some extent. If you wish to be so dismissive of your opponent and communicate to them that they are of absolutely no consequence to you in any manner to even garner a "meh" then you would tell them that you couldn't care less. This implies that your level of caring is so low that it is impossible for you to care any less than you already do.
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited March 2011
    seeclear wrote: »
    Another one that just kills me is the improper use of "less" vs "fewer".

    Just so's you knows, it is less for words that are singular--less water, less ozone.

    Fewer for words that are plural--fewer people, fewer jelly beans.

    I've seen that one used improperly in advertisements, news reports, all over the place and it just chaps my ****$.

    Rant over, carry on. :biggrin:


    I agree with this one. Although it's not necessarily "singular" vs "plural." It's "things you can count" vs "things you can't." But yes, in very formal / public places people get this wrong and it drives me insane. I wanted to applaud the manager of my local grocery store the other day because their express line actually says "12 items or fewer."
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,007
    edited March 2011
    I see lots of then vs than.... and No Jstas there is no Canuck way to spell either.:wink:
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    Willow wrote: »
    I see lots of then vs than.... and No Jstas there is no Canuck way to spell either.:wink:

    Hey, friend, what's that all aboot, eh?
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Hey, friend, what's all aboot, eh?

    He's not your friend, buddy.
    MrNightly wrote: »
    "Dr Dunn admitted that his research could also be interpreted as evidence that women are shallower than men. He said: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."
    mystik610 wrote: »
    Best Buy is for people who don't know any better. Magnolia is for people who don't know any better and have more money to spend.
    My System:


    TV: SAMSUNG UN55B7000 55" 1080p LED HDTV
    HTPC: Chromecast w/ Plex Media Server. Media streamed from Media Server.
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited March 2011
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    He's not your friend, buddy.

    I'm not your buddy, pal.
    Expert Moron Extraordinaire

    You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • JimKellyfan
    JimKellyfan Posts: 696
    edited March 2011
    most all of 'em
    used to be most were spelt right
    but now with spell checker, we're mostly spoiled
    Onkyo TX-NR636
    Main - polkaudio Monitor 60's
    Center - polkaudio CSI A6
    Sub - polkaudio PSW10
    Sub2 - polkaudio PSW505
    Surrounds - polkaudio Monitor 40 series II
    Front Height - polkaudio Monitor 40's
    Audio Outdoors
    Pioneer VSX 406 - polkaudio Atrium 5
    Shed
    Sony junker str-dn2010 with Sony bookshelf floor models and polkaudio R150's
    Shed 2
    Nakamichi soundbar
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • gimpod
    gimpod Posts: 1,793
    edited March 2011
    BesidesspellingeveythingwrongIhavebadtendencytoskipwholewordsand/orpunctuationsothateverythingItypedoesn'tmakesanysense.
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” ~ Mark Twain
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter