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Funny: Mom Buys Me a Spell Checker for Christmas |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 18:16 |
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To fully get the joke, you need some back story. I am fairly seriously dyslexic and as a child I hated nothing more in school than spelling tests. Every week my mother and I had a ritual. She grilled me on my spelling words and I cried. It wasn't much, but it was our system So a few months back when I told my mother I was starting a website called Common Misspellings, she was the one in tears, but it was tears of hysterical laughter. (yes, my own mother mocked me) The mocking continued when she got me a spellchecker for Christmas with a card that said "To help you with the website." But I have to admit, the Spell Checker she got me was very cool. It uses a Phonetic Dictionary which is a vast improvement over letter matching methods used in the past. (How DO you look up a word if you can't spell it?) I was very impressed by how powerful this thing is. I decided to give one to my niece for Christmas and in researching, the newer model spell checkers I am impressed how cool many of them are. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:07 )
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Free Online Spell Checker |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 08:19 |
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From the emails I have been getting, many people are looking for a full fledged online spell checker. I found one that is really cool. You just type in your text and hit the "Check Spelling" button and it spell checks for you. Try it! Free Online Spell Checker |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 November 2008 08:28 )
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 00:54 |
How do you spellThat what a whole lot of people want to know. After putting up that list of common words that people ask google how to spell, I started seeing a lot of people really do type that into google. I sent my friend (a fellow linguist) a question. I wanted to know if people are typing "How do you Spell" more of it they where typing "How do I spell..." He told me that overwhelmingly people type "How do you spell" into google. Which was odd considering google isn't a person but they refer to it as "you." Interesting. The other thing I find funny is that I get an abundance of people asking "How do you spell neice." -- Apparently these people have never heard the old rule that I goes before E except after C. - It should read 'How do you spell niece' which would be right. BTW there is a list of commonly misspelled words below (scroll down) and here is the list of the words often misspelled according to gogle. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:00 )
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How many different ways can you misspell insurance? |
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People make typos (or misspell words) all over the net. One thing I was interested in is how many people make common misspellings or common typos for every day words. One of the tools I use as a linguist is a typo generation tool. I wanted to see how many different ways the word insurance could be misspelled. What I found was interesting. |
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A partial list of common misspellings and the proper way to spell them. MISSPELLING ** CORRECT SPELLING
abber(r)ation ** aberration
accomodation ** accommodation
acheive ** achieve
adress ** address
alot ** a lot or allot
Alsation ** Alsatian
alterior ** ulterior
ammend ** amend
anti-semetic ** anti-Semitic
attatch ** attach
athiest ** atheist
auxilliary ** auxiliary
barbeque ** barbecue
beggining ** beginning
beleive ** believe
bicep ** biceps bouy ** buoy
Britian ** Britain
brocolli ** broccoli For the rest of the list, click the Read More button at right. |
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Most common misspelled words according to google |
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A friend of mine saw my goofy little website and he sent me a list of all the words people ask google to spell for them... |
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One Word I Always Misspell |
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I don't know why, but I can always misspell the word "because." Or more accurately, I can't TYPE the word because. I'm very good at typing the word "becasue" whatever that means. But more often than not if I have to type "because" it ends up being misspelled. |
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