what are some common spelling/grammar mistakes you make?

Dominic · #1 12-13-2006, 02:08 PM

i still have no clue what the difference is between "all right" and "alright." And it confuses me.

What's yours?

mmbt0ne · #2 12-13-2006, 02:11 PM

Goddamn if I could spell necessary for a long time.

I can now because I realized after 21 years of life that it starts out like "process" after having to write "necessary process" about 400 times in my MSE class.

kitaristi0 · #3 12-13-2006, 02:12 PM

The one I see all the time is definately.

Dominic · #4 12-13-2006, 02:13 PM

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Goddamn if I could spell necessary for a long time.

I can now because I realized after 21 years of life that it starts out like "process" after having to write "necessary process" about 400 times in my MSE class.

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yes! I'm finally spelling that one correctly, too.

And for the life of me, I still can't remember when to use "affect" and when to use "effect."

RunDownHouse · #5 12-13-2006, 02:14 PM

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i still have no clue what the difference is between "all right" and "alright." And it confuses me.

What's yours?

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I thought one was correct, while one was not. No?

Someone pointed this out recently here, but I'd never noticed it: tons of posters misspell "Villain," spelling it "Villian" instead.

A S U · #6 12-13-2006, 02:15 PM

I use run-on sentences all the time. I never know where a comma or semi-colon goes.

Blarg · #7 12-13-2006, 02:15 PM

Affect and effect is easy if you crack a dictionary.

I have a mental glitch with "separate." I often want to use too many e's in it. I know better, but it sometimes happens anyway. There are one or two other words like that, but they aren't as common and don't come to mind right away.

keith123 · #8 12-13-2006, 02:16 PM

marriage/marraige is similar to the villian/villain thing.

StinkWater · #9 12-13-2006, 02:17 PM

i always want to spell 'dilemma' as 'dilemna'. i find it odd that i often see other people spell it with the 'mna' ending too even though it is not phonetic. not sure where this comes from.

Blarg · #10 12-13-2006, 02:18 PM

Alright has traditionally not been an acceptable contraction. But now it has become so common that it's sort of okay, I guess, depending on how much of a purist you are. At least in America; I dunno about how that goes with the Brits.

It's not one of the better contractions out there, and I'd stay away from it if writing someplace that matters.