Common mispelled words

Shini_D · Jul 18, 2009

color VS colour
hahaha

or......February VS Febuary

i guess they teach u to sound out words as a kid, so some people still go with that?

51mulacrum · Jul 22, 2009

judgement should be judgment

kontradictions · Jul 22, 2009

Shini_D said: ↑

color VS colour
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I thought both variations were correct.

-our, -or

Most words ending in unstressed -our in the United Kingdom (e.g., colour, flavour, honour, armour, rumour) end in -or in the United States (e.g., color, flavor, honor, armor, rumor). Where the vowel is unreduced, this does not occur: contour, paramour, troubadour, are spelled thus everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur.[21] After the Norman Conquest, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or,[22] though color has been used occasionally in English since the fifteenth century.[23] The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings.[21] After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or termination; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th and early 17th century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin (e.g. color[23]) and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only.[24]
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or

bubblez_girl · Jul 24, 2009

ie or ei?

Write "I" before "e", except after "c"
Or when sounded like a, as in neighbour and weigh

bbgirlsum · Jul 24, 2009

there, they're and their
most common of them all!

also for the colour vs color post... they both correct but americans tend to spell it as Color and British is Colour

mr_evolution · Jul 24, 2009

your vs you're

master_g · Jul 24, 2009

^ thats a dum mistake

after playing wow for a few months i ended up spelling "sure" as "shure" as i was accepting pvp invitations all - i had no idea i was spelling it incorrectly.

Akki · Jul 24, 2009

^ but is a common mistake for most people...

master_g · Jul 24, 2009

^ true dat

spelling started to fail with the rise of MMORPGs where people from across the world can get to together and spread their poor English and inflict it on others.

master_g · Jul 24, 2009

sdk · Jul 25, 2009

there is even a website on how not to misspell definitely...
http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

master_g · Jul 25, 2009

^ no way am i clicking your link

yiubun · Jul 26, 2009

Heres some from the list they give us from work

Appalled
Cheque
Competent
Courteous
Dealt
Disappoint
Friendly
Helpful
Necessary
Paid
Processed
Professional
Queue
Recommend
Referred
Received
Their/ There/ They're
Withdrawal

Common mispelled words

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