flourescent eggs + mis-spelt words

Certain words tend to create confusions in the way they are written. Why is this? I have tried to think about it and I came with the reasons below.

Why Are Words Mis-Spelt?

1) Knowing more than one language == writing confusion

Words are written in different forms in different languages; for instance, for a person (like me) who makes frequent usage of french and english in my daily life, I tend to get confuse when writing some words. Let’s take the example of the word ‘enemy‘.
In english it is written as ‘enemy‘ and in french it is written as ‘ennemi‘ - so I used to write it as ‘ennemy‘.

bulb Possible Solution:
From my experience, I had made a list of words which I tend to write wrongly and I tried to memorise them and at times doing the homework of writing them several times. This method proved to have been useful to me. (May be you have another solution? If so, please use the comment form below to let me know..)

2) Some people simply do not put enough effort in learning to write well.

What about people who know only one language? I have relatives living across different parts of the globe. When I see my cousins from France or England or U.S write, I see they do make mistakes (at times too silly a mistake) despite the fact that their written language is their mother tongue. Then why those mistakes?! The simple answer to this is: ‘These people are careless with the language, they are not enough attentive and not putting enough effort to learn their language. (Read Why Writing?)

3) Some words are written differently from their pronounciation.

4) Stop writing == emergence of poor writing

There is a fourth point which I have figured out. When a person is very good at a language but has not been writing for a long period of time, he/she still gets affected (I have experienced this myself). As goes the saying: “practice makes perfect” - You have to constantly keep in touch with writing too. (And this is one of the reasons why I blog ;) )

List Of Words Commonly Mis-Spelt

Commonly Mis-Spelt Words

Incorrect Forms Correct Form
centuri, centuary century
origion, origine origin
ennemy, enmy enemy
ommission omission
interuption, intruption interruption
comparitive comparative
accomodate, accomadate accommodate
priviledge privilege
tragidy, tradedgy tragedy
paralell parallel
annihillate annihilate
tarrif, tarif tarriff
exagerate, ecegerate exaggerate
embarassed embarrassed
develope develop
futur future
amunition ammunition
fultill, fullfil fulfil
reversable reversible
humourous, humurous humorous
preceeding, precceding preceding
agreable agreeable
disapoint disappoint
harrassed, harased harassed
occured occurred
writting writing
writen written
seperate separate
caotic chaotic
cahos chaos
undoubtably undoubtedly
definitly, definately definitely

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  1. 1
    From Joey LoganoNo Gravatar   on March 11th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    I see all too often some of these words being misspelled, but I can understand some of the words being misspelled, but there are others that I just shake my head at and can’t believe that people misspell them!

  2. 2
    From WakishNo Gravatar   on March 12th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Hi Joey,
    yes indeed ;)

    Thank you for the comment.

  3. 3
    From Gerri - Ninety Nine WaysNo Gravatar   on October 5th, 2009 at 4:46 am

    Not much to say except for - this was an interesting post. Even when english is your first language, simple word can prove to be a bit tricky to spell. It is not my first language so I chose to use that as an excuse if I fail dismally at spelling or grammar.

  4. 4
    From hiNo Gravatar   on January 17th, 2010 at 8:07 pm

    i think “intinerary” is spelt wrongly, should be “itinerary” right? (as in travel itinerary?)

  5. 5
    From WakishNo Gravatar   on January 22nd, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    @hi:

    Infact it should have been ‘itinerant’. To prevent any confusion, I have removed that row.

    Thanks for your comment.

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