Words you often mispell.

Yes, that word was used a lot in Father Ted. It doesn't sound as bad when said that way.

Btw, did you not get the spell-check for 'quietly'?!

 

Diarrhoea

 

This 20-year-old thread came back to life today after a long nap. In 2004, when this thread began and where it spent most of its life, I had never typed/keyed text on a flat panel of glass The iPhone and iPad were still a few years away. Now, having typed onto flat glass with mere two-dimensional images of keys, some of the time since 2011, I can fairly say that I hate it. I misspell almost everything, all of the time. The fingertips go where the keys would be if there were actual keys, but they don't land where the machine says they must to produce those letters.

A mind that learned to direct fingertips on a manual typewriter in 1976 adapted well to electric typewriters, then desktop computer keyboards, and even passably to laptops. That mind tells me every single day now that glass is not for typing. There are no keys. That's why there are so many spelling errors when I type on glass. I hate typing on glass, and I don't hate many things in this life.

 

And people's spelling has gotten so much worse in the last 20 years. Predictive texting isn't helping. I hate when the phone chooses a word that I didn't want without me realising it.

 

I often wonder why some US-english words are spelled differently from GB-english. Why should that be so?
Humor -v- humour
Behaviour -v- behavior
realize -v- realise

...and many more.
Were the first teachers of English in the US, picked from a less well-educated or less knowledgable bunch who had migrated from the British Isles and wanted to fulfil that role, but whose education in Britain/Ireland wasn't up to much compared to today's teachings?
Perhaps they were taught orally (with fewer books) and so spelling wasn't such an important thing in the 1700/1800s as it seems to be today?

Not criticising or criticizing anyone's spelling but I am sometimes curious about why some simply-spelled words seems to lose letters for no apparent reason.

 

I should add - I am not suggesting for a moment that everyday English, used in the UK, is better than in the US.
Indeed, it seems clear to me, that those for whom English is a secondary language such as most other European countries and Asia, they speak English in a more grammatically correct way than do native English speakers in the UK.

 

I don't trust spell-check, after I wrote organism in a paper. I must have missed a letter and it was changed to orgasm.
It took me a while to live that one down.
I was teaching biology, not my main subject, to a group of students and they kept making the same mistake, causing endless fun.

 

I caint thimka anny.

 

Yeh, Zen, apologies, I went a bit off topic but was trying (and failed lol) to highlight that one person's spelling mistake is another's correct way.

Regardless; looking at some of the responses, this actually seems more of a thread about typos rather than spelling mistakes.

And my most annoying typo is a semi-colon appearing when I wanted an apostrophe.
Beside each other on a UK keyboard, even if I slow down and make what seems enough of a stretch, the semi-colon still appears.

 

That's because people aren't even capable of realising which words they can't spell.

 

Mine is "definitely", I can never remember where the i's and e's fit in lol