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Commonly vitiated orthography

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...by which I mean stuff you personally sometimes spell wrongly or mistype or have to think twice about, not lists of common errors taken from internet sites.

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Attendence

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Fullfil

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renumeration

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Regrads

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I have to think twice about independent (not independant)
and
panicked (just doesn't look right)
and
scary (not scarey dammit)

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Originally posted by Kewpie
renumeration
Nothing wrong with that!

renumeration
noun
the action or process of calculating or assigning a number to something. again 😉

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
Nothing wrong with that!

renumeration
noun
the action or process of calculating or assigning a number to something. again 😉
It's a word, it just isn't the word I meant it to be!

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Originally posted by Kewpie
It's a word, it just isn't the word I meant it to be!
Remuneration?

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Originally posted by Kewpie
It's a word, it just isn't the word I meant it to be!
Actually it's not a word I was just trying to be funny. 😞

I used to think remuneration was spelt like that too.

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I know the correct spelling, but I see the incorrect spelling in print so often that when I write it myself I get confused. It's as if bad spelling is contagious.

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my two stumbling blocks...

separate
prairie

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Originally posted by rookie54
my two stumbling blocks...

separate
prairie
separate not seperate.
I used to get that wrong.
Easy way to remember is that when you separate something you are paring it.

Hope that helps.

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It's not one of my confusions, but I often see on these forums: tounge

(my brain has a lot of trouble interpreting this one)

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"We're going to need a bigger thread"...

there their they're
hear here
premases
baught
causal casual
scrutny
false fasle
comitting
analising
whome
responce
origanal
reasearch
aledged
excelent


Thank the coders for spell-check and auto-correct.

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