What is a typical spelling mistake you make?
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
For some reason unfortunately gave me trouble until I broke it down and remembered to have tuna in there lol
So I just think: unfor tuna tely
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
More a typo than a spelling mistake but if a word ends in ‘th’, my brain cannot stop adding an ‘e’.
- withe
- bothe
- mythe
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uhm ... separate is an adjective and separation is a noun I guess?
I think they were referring more to a tendency of writing seperat(e, ion, or).
Unfortunately the classification of single words is not so cut and dry:
- The separator machine uses separation algorithms to separate separate appropriately.
- separator is an adjective
- separation is an adjective
- 1st separate is a verb
- 2nd separate is a noun
- The separator machine uses separation algorithms to separate separate appropriately.
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For some reason unfortunately gave me trouble until I broke it down and remembered to have tuna in there lol
So I just think: unfor tuna tely
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
Nice try, FBI stylometric profiler.
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unfor
telyI will cry if this becomes the evolution of emoji usage lol
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It's only very recently that I learned I've been using the wrong then/than and effect/affect most of the time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]- "When?" > "Then!"
- Rather than the alternative
- Cause and effect
- When deciding which to use for a verb:
- Effect causes an entire result; "A discarded cigarette effected the forest fire"
- Affect alters part of the result; "Human behaviors affect climate change."
- When deciding which to use for a verb:
- "When?" > "Then!"
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Nice try, FBI stylometric profiler.
you got me. But fuck I revealed my own spelling mistakes. Find me!
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
Travelling vs traveling
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
Pronounce and pronunciation seem like they should have the same root, but one of them has an extra 'o' for some perfectly logical reason. I know the difference and don't consistently misspell it, but if I edit a sentence to switch from one to the other without noticing that it's a danger inflection ...
Also maintain vs. maintenance for the same reason.
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Travelling vs traveling
The former is British, the latter is American. Noah Webster eliminated letter doubles in words where he thought the extra one didn't add anything useful. Another word that did the same thing is "level(l)ing".
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I will cry if this becomes the evolution of emoji usage lol
Think of all of the interesting things you can do with regional dialects!
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
wrote last edited by [email protected]I say wether, not whether, and anyways, not anyway. I also never remember how to write thorought.
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
Licence / license, and practice / practise. I have to look them up every single time because I forget which of each is the noun and which is the verb, and even then, there are situations where using the noun as a verb might actually be the right thing to do and I hate the whole thing. So I probably still get those wrong whenever I use them.
Barring brain farts (increasingly common) and muscle memory leading me astray on the keyboard, my spelling is otherwise fairly good, but those pairings I could do without.
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
Viscous vs vicious.
It’s a viscous cycle.
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
wrote last edited by [email protected]I habitually throw random spelling and grammatical mistakes into my posts and comments all the time, to make it less likely that anyone can fingerprint my writing style and thereby dox me. That is the only reason for any such errors.
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I say wether, not whether, and anyways, not anyway. I also never remember how to write thorought.
Thorought I think would be pronounced thor-uft.
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Interesting, so I could make the argument that I was right all along
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
wrote last edited by [email protected]- centennial, millennial, embarrassed, etc. (Where are the double-letters and where are they not? Who fucking knows.)
- backward(s), forward(s), leftward(s), etc. (Do words like this have an S or not? Who fucking knows.)
- reconnaissance (Just fuck this word.)
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For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.
- loose vs. lose
- then vs. than
- were vs. where
I used to have trouble with necessary. I have pages of notes with neccesary/neseccary/necesary/necessary scribbled in the margins to see which one looked right.
