This Year’s Most Mispelled Words :)

December 8, 2009 at 6:51 pm · Filed under Roba

1. Perseverance

2. Convenient

3. Embarrassed

4. Prerogative

5. Pretentious

6. Appalled

7. Genius

8. Definitely

9. Inadvertently

10. Separate

According to Dictionary.com

Are any of these on your list?

Try this game: Remember four words at a time and type them into your
notepad, to see if you get any of these wrong. When I read them, I was
like “Snort, these are so easy.” I ended up misspelling “Prerogative”
(spelled it as perogative) and “Inadverent” (spelled it as inadvertant)
:)

Do you get them all right?

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  • http://yasmin7903.blogspot.com yasmin Hamied

    I spelled them all right, except inadvertently which I -inadvertently – spelled ‘inadvertantly’ :-P

    Many people misspell genius as ‘genious’.
    BTW, was the misspelling of the title intended?

  • hannah

    I incorrectly spell about half of those words about half the time – I comfort myself with the fact that I can’t spell in any language, not just my native language! BTW, did you mean to mis-spell inadvertent in your next-to-last paragraph? =P

  • ahmad

    i still can’t write Wednesday without the help of a dictionary and misspell two too many times so i’m gonna spare myself the humiliation of tryin

  • y

    i like this post

  • AG

    I misspelled:
    Definitely
    and Inadvertently.

    Isn’t the the point of having computers? or am I just getting too lazy?

  • Chris

    Jeeez, I most definitaly did! As a genious, I’d be embarassed and appaled if I didn’t! Sorry, I can sometimes inadvertantly become pretentius with people with no persaverense.

  • http://symphonic-discord.blogspot.com/ Youthful Wisdom

    Genious

    Appalled

    Definitely

    Convienient

    Darn….I thought I’d do better..

    Nice post!

  • ExpatInSaudi

    I always rely on my spell checker for ‘inadvertently’ and ‘permanent’. Thanks to Mozilla I spelled ‘em correctly here :)

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Yasmin, it wasn’t intended :D How funny is that!

    Hannah, my title was a misspell, but thankfully, inadvertent was not :P

    Ahmad, hahaha, thank god for dictionaries!

    Y, I like YOU :)

    AG, “inadvertently” seems to be a winner!

    Chris, haha, awesome paragraph. My friend Y and I always play this game called the “-ation” game, which we try to speak long sentences with everything ending in “-ation”. I think you might enjoy that :P

    ExpatInSaudi, thank god for Firefox :) Best invention ever, spellchecker aside.

  • P

    At the risk of coming off as a spelling snob; how the hell can so many people misspell genius?!

    It would be interesting to compile a list of most incorrect usages of words, and most incorrect words (eg. words that people invent on their own!).