Receive – “I before E, except after C.” There are exceptions to the rule, but this common word is exactly why that rule was created.Definitely – There is no A in definitely, but there definitely should be.Also, it contains the word rat, which aptly describes the person who decided that it should be spelled this way. Here are 10 of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, and some ways to help you remember how to spell them. I feel your pain, and I’ve been spelling English words for decades! Why does people have one, but not potato? But, people is also a plural word, yet the plural of potato is potatoes? What’s up with that? The same is true of words with a silent E. But sometimes, like the letters N and M in the word government, they will appear together. Certain letters are also not typically placed beside each other because the sound they make is odd. Those words, as you probably know, are homophones, and English is loaded with them. Part of the problem for someone learning English is that so many of our words sound alike, but are spelled differently. There is a recurring joke in the Superman comic books that Lois Lane, ace reporter for the Daily Planet and Superman’s girlfriend, is a terrible speller. Even a fictional writer is cursed with poor spelling skills. Some geniuses, such as Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein also are said to have been bad spellers. The best-selling author of all time, Agatha Christie, was slightly dyslexic and so had trouble with her spelling. Scott Fitzgerald all had huge mental blocks when it came to spelling. Some of the most famous writers of all time were notoriously bad spellers. Poor spellers, properly known as cacographers, are in good company. That alone can be difficult, but in English, as we know, rules break all the time. There are tricks to spelling, especially in English, and you need to know, and remember those special rules. Sometimes we are writing so quickly that we can’t hold the image of that word in our minds before the next word materializes. But, hey, it gets pretty crowded up there! We do it, and most of us manage pretty well. Once you learn how to spell a word correctly, you need to hold the memory of how to spell it in your head for the remainder of your lifetime. There are lots of reasons why this happens. You go to write a word which Spellcheck always corrects and you think, “Ha! I’m not going to spell calendar wrong this time!” And, in no time at all, you have written calander. Is there a word that you always misspell, no matter how many times you write it?Ĭhances are, there is.
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