I wonder what the most misspelled word is here in the forums. My guess is the word, “definitely”
Re: Most misspelled word?
Definatly! u r soooo rite.
Are you being sarchastic?
Wats sarchasm? im not famliar wiht it.
You know, the bad thing is some folks are going to look at the last several posts and see nothing amiss.
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Think of it as natural selection in the job market.
“trials” is definately up their.
This thread is just plane silly
Tire beacuse its spelled tire.
sits and waits for angry retorts
Their are a lot of words that are spelled write but used incorrectly. It happens all to often.
Using your instead of you’re is a common mistake.
You forgot my all-time favorite…alot.
But, getting back to the original intent of the thread, I wonder if there’s a way to tabulate misspellings. It’s beyond the capabilities of my software. Klaas, any ideas?
Bruce
Try a forum search for “definitely”. You get zero hits.
There must be a problem with the search index. There should definitely be some hits on definitely.
This might be a tall order. I just did a search on the spelling “definately” and came up with entries on 836 posts.
I did a search on “trails,” a common mispelling of the word, “trials,” and got 1700+ hits. I win.
But, although you intended to search for a misspelling of the word trials, your search results also included hits for the correctly spelled word trails when used in its correct context.
That brings up a question. When the word trails is used instead of correctly using the word trials, it’s a misspelling. But is it also a grammatical error? I don’t think it is. I guess I’d have to consider it a pure spelling error even though it’s a legitimate spelling of another word.
Bruce
Another question. Are we all double-checking the spellings of our posts in this thread? I am.
Bruce
Ah, but that’s where the dry wit comes in.
Anyways, I have been checking my spelling and grammar. You’ll note that my quotes above were correctly done, which is very not normal, since that is the one thing I usually ignore.