Words I assumed I had not been misspelling until greeted somewhere by the fact of my wrongness

jennarenn commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

I love this list. So fresh and honest. :)

July 11, 2008

she commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Why thank you, miss.

I think it's really one of the most useful self-serving lists to make—I'm digging all the way back to gradeschool (There are words left to add! but I'm pacing myself).. As George Santayana (Google tells me) said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And now I have this handy reference going.

July 11, 2008

reesetee commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Great list, she--and let's face it, most of spellings aren't especially logical in the first place, so you can forgive yourself that much. :-)

July 11, 2008

kringlan commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Intresting and impresive!

August 9, 2008

sarra commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Ooooh. The memory-sticking ones for me are “enviroment” (age 11, but I think I'd barely used it before being told) and “oppurtunity” (somewhere in my teens, which was much more embarrassing).

August 9, 2008

sarra commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Oh, and “flourescent” for me too!

August 9, 2008

she commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Tanks, kingran!

This may make you feel better, sarra — my first addition to this list is the most embarrassing: the correct spelling of "seperate" didn't dawn on me until well, well into high school. I still have no idea how, in years of papers, emails and IM conversations, not one person noticed or cared enough to correct me. Yeeearrsss.

August 9, 2008

mollusque commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

I remember once in second grade puzzling over "ov" and "uv" but not arriving at "of". In fifth grade kindergarten knocked me out of the spelling bee.

August 10, 2008

Telofy commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Being German I write much less English than most of you I guess, so only a few months ago, spell-checking a readme and a changelog file for an OpenSource tool I wrote, I also had the same "separate" epiphany. Had to correct it in almost every file... ^^

"interesting" came out a bit earlier.

September 26, 2008

frindley commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

exhuberant!

September 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

In Italian, spelling is not such a big problem - we have a bunch of letters with two possible pronunciations, and the rest of them is always pronounced the same way*. A few words are a bit harder, though:

accelerare (to accelerate), usually pronounced "accellerare";

piovigginare (to drizzle), that almost no one pronounces correctly** ("pioviginare", "piovvigginare", "piovviginare"...);

and collutorio (mouthwash), that gets more google results with the wrong spelling "colluttorio".

* Approximately, of course.

** Including me.

September 26, 2008

Prolagus commented on the list words-i-assumed-i-had-not-been-misspelling-until-greeted-somewhere-by-the-fact-of-my-wrongness

Oh, I talked about that on thingy...

September 26, 2008