When I started blogging, one of my favorite words to misspell was ‘your.’ I would type ‘you’ not because I didn’t know how to spell ‘your’ but my fingers flew across the key board and unlike other misspelled words this one was easy to over look. I’ve edited multiple times only to hit the publish button and lo and behold, I’ll find a ‘you’ where I should have ‘your.’ Frustrating!
My solution was to use Microsoft word to type my draft and use the ‘find’ feature to verify if I was using ‘you’ and ‘your’ correctly. It worked and now I ‘m confident when I hit the publish button.
Here are 15 of the most commonly misspelled words. Do you misspell any of them?
Your turn
Have you ever been challenged with misspelling a particular word?
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I always also have trouble with:
“Committed” and I’ll type tow for two – that one doesn’t get caught!
I recently discovered a great book called “Woe is I” by Patricia O’Connor and while it’s not about misspellings, it’s subtitled the “The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English”. It’s actually fascinating reading and there are sooooo many errors many of make in our language.
Hello Christine,
Hello Christine,
That is interesting that the word you would have a challenge with is ‘two’ it’s certainly not because you don’t know how to spell it. When I think of all the times I’ve looked in disbelief at yet another post with ‘you’ instead of ‘your’, especially when I edited it so many times, I just have to smile 🙂 We think we’re unique but they’re others having the same experience.
I like the concept of Patricia’s book and I’ll put it on my wish list. I find that the more I blog is the more questioning I become about my grammar skills.
Thanks for stopping by Christine; I look forward to seeing you again.
Yes – many times but I tend to change the word to another word and it never shows up in a spell check. I found proofing on my Droid phone helps after posting. I can usually catch things there. I’ve also had trouble with differently. I now Google words that I am unsure of.
Hello,
Lisa, thanks for stopping by. I find it interesting that we all have one word in particular that we misspell. I wonder why? It would be fascinating to figure it out. But we have more important things to focus on.