This word gets slaughtered.

[flyer]

Now, for all those ticked off with spelling mistakes, any of you would like to enroll in MY french lessons? I guarantee a lot of laugh...

[Arpe]

Originally Posted by mel

As for complement/compliment - according to my dictionary here in my lap, the latter means an expression of praise, while the former means something that completes, or makes up the whole. So actually they are two different words with different meanings (hey I'm a librarian!).

Exactly!

Originally Posted by Bramela

Its not a spelling mistake but its interesting to note, the word 'vacation' used so often here, is virtually never heard here Down Under. Here it is a holiday.
Then again we are quite a bit out of the way down on the bottom side of the globe.

An Americanism that amuses me is "gotten". "Got" is already past tense, there isn't a single case where "gotten" cannot be transplanted with "got" and retain the exact meaning. This is the only word I know of that has got longer and retained it's original meaning, usually people shorten words. And no, I never ever use gotten.

[SpecialK]

Originally Posted by Arpe

Exactly!


An Americanism that amuses me is "gotten". "Got" is already past tense, there isn't a single case where "gotten" cannot be transplanted with "got" and retain the exact meaning. This is the only word I know of that has got longer and retained it's original meaning, usually people shorten words. And no, I never ever use gotten.

"Gotten" is the the process of getting - "I've gotten thin from a diet". "Got" is the result of getting - "I won the lottery and got a new camera." A slight, yet perceptible difference.

Oh, vacation is individual time off from work. A holiday is sort of a national group time off...

[SpecialK]

Originally Posted by Damn Brit

ACTURELY????? OOPS! Actually

It was a joke, as was " its' " and " quiet "...

[Damn Brit]

Originally Posted by SpecialK

It was a joke, as was " its' " and " quiet "...

Ah, very subtle.
I acturely missed the other two.

[Lance B]

Originally Posted by Russell-Evans

Do you mean Et cetera?

Thank you
Russell

Of course, how remiss of me.

[monochrome]

Originally Posted by Arpe

Exactly!


An Americanism that amuses me is "gotten". "Got" is already past tense, there isn't a single case where "gotten" cannot be transplanted with "got" and retain the exact meaning. This is the only word I know of that has got longer and retained it's original meaning, usually people shorten words. And no, I never ever use gotten.

Got is the past tense of the inactive verb to get, as in, "I got old."

Gotten is the past perfect tense, as in "I have gotten older."

We shan't go into future perfect, nor past pluperfect.

[HGMonaro]

teh

(extra comment in brackets due to short msg not accepted)

[newmikey]

I got you babe....

(free after Cher)

[gawan]

Great thread! Having fun and learning a lot at the same time

I do lots of mistakes and heavily rely on the spell checker. Here are some words by which I crumble often;

For me it is not just using correct spelling, but also choosing right words in right context...

lover <-> lower
belowe -> below
abov -> above
beeing -> being
teached -> tought -> taught

BTW, Dave (Daacon) just taught me an impossible word to spell: prairie

[ftpaddict]

Originally Posted by Gooshin

>.>

u so meen, y u gata b such a party puper. ~_~

Bcuz dis be repsectible forumz //_u (emo emote)

[Arjay Bee]

Try putting this through your spelling checker:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

As I thought - 100% perfect. Not original BTW.

[ll_coffee_lP]

Originally Posted by Arjay Bee

Try putting this through your spelling checker:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

As I thought - 100% perfect. Not original BTW.

...and we have a thread winner!

c[_]

[ll_coffee_lP]

Originally Posted by Arpe

Exactly!


An Americanism that amuses me is "gotten". "Got" is already past tense, there isn't a single case where "gotten" cannot be transplanted with "got" and retain the exact meaning. This is the only word I know of that has got longer and retained it's original meaning, usually people shorten words. And no, I never ever use gotten.

Waaaaait a minute. You used "gotten" three times in your post. That's a lot of times for someone who doesn't use the word.

c[_]

[CycloneBandDad]

pet peeve word: "nukuhlar" - which gets a "dammit the word is NUCLEAR!" response from me

My own most common mistake: "teh"

And then there are all those silly folks putting extra "u"s into words - stuff like colour, harbour, labour, you get the idea

Jim (grins, ducks, & runs for cover)