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term for “bad jerk in the back” | servant vs. farm worker
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Frequently misspelt words Tue Jan 30, 2007 15:04 pm  Frequently misspelt words
 

Have you noticed how often the word 'antediluvian' is misspellt? Google reports the following number of hits:

antediluvian (right spelling): 439.000
anti-diluvian: 13.700
anti-deluvian: 2.970

And there are several other wrong variant forms.
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Frequently misspelt words Tue Jan 30, 2007 17:24 pm  Frequently misspelt words
 

for myself, i usually misspell "embarrass" as "embarass".. heehe i think the word misspell itself is frequently misspelled.
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Frequently misspelt words Tue Jan 30, 2007 17:45 pm  Frequently misspelt words
 

one that I've seen misspelled often -- and cannot believe when I do -- is "congratulations" incorrectly spelled with a "d" to yield "congradulations".
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Frequently misspelt words Tue Jan 30, 2007 17:47 pm  Frequently misspelt words
 

Other frequent misspellings are the renderings of "night" as "nite" and "light" as "lite".

I don't know if these words' widespread misspelling is due to sheer laziness or what, but whatever the case, "lite" and "nite" are incorrect.
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Frequently misspelt words Tue Jan 30, 2007 17:48 pm  Frequently misspelt words
 

I love this topic, BTW, Conchita. Thanks so much!
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Frequently misspelt words Wed Jan 31, 2007 0:51 am  Frequently misspelt words
 

prezbucky wrote:
"light" as "lite"

I don't know if these words' widespread misspelling is due to sheer laziness or what, but whatever the case, "lite" and "nite" are incorrect.

In reality, a 'lite' version of a computer software = a 'light' version of… Smile
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lite+version
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Frequently misspelt words Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:01 am  Frequently misspelt words
 

Let me contribute my mite to the list Smile
I often come across 'ocassion' instead of''occasion'
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Frequently misspelt words Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:03 am  Frequently misspelt words
 

darn it, Tamara, leave it to the geeks to mess with our tongue. hehe

and Pamela, har har har Wink
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