15 Most Misspelled English Words Infographic
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If you don’t think checking your writing for spelling errors is that important, think again. This infographic, created by Grammer.net, proves why using spellchecker is one of the most important parts of the writing process. English is influenced by every major language on Earth, including some that aren’t even used anymore, so spelling is bound to cause frustration. Our headstrong language does have rules, but not all words abide by them. The old “I before E, except after C”, for instance, was discarded when the exceptions were found to outnumber the words that followed it. Einstein might have chuckled, having broken it twice with just his name.
Nothing makes a writer look more like a yokel than a page full of misspelled words, and if that page happens to be a resume, the results will be disastrous. Once upon a time, spelling boiled down to memorization, but in this age of computers, as the infographic suggests, spell check is an easy fix.
Let’s move to the grading segment.
Design: A
Sleek. Elegant. Snazzy. Clean. These are the words that fill my head when I look at this graphic. It delivers strongly on several fronts.
Content: A
You asked for “just the facts, m’am.” You got ‘em. Using bars that draw you in to read the content, the graphic shows the incorrect spelling of a word followed by the correct spelling. Who could ask for anything more?
“Behaviour” is incorrect only in American English; “iour” is correct for U.K. English.
I still say that “all right” is correct, regardless of the long-term common usage of “alright”.
#Thanks Yehudit,
I understand know, if english have two difference. American English and UK English. Coz I am from Indonesia
Thank goodness for spell checker. Personally, I usually spell behavior wrong most of the time.
Oh Geoff, don’t trust your spell checker …it will let you down…to wit:
Spelling Poem
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 fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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I don’t think that’s an apostrophe, though. I think it needs to be rotated 180 degrees.
As has been pointed out, “behaviour” is not really incorrect. It’s a variant. In the rest of the English-speaking world, I suspect it’s viewed as the correct spelling, and “behavior” the variant.
I suppose it’s been said hundreds of times, but behaviour is the correct spelling, I guess that’s why it says there’s a UK version on the right side. However most Americans would consider words like ‘centre, metre, litre, armour, colour, fibre, alluminium, encyclopaedia or onomatopoeia’ to be SPELT wrong. Isn’t it?
Hello from Hungary!
I learnt English as a second language in school, maybe because we should memorize every word, I write these words correctly.
I also agree with Geoff. Spell checker is essential tool.
Have a nice day! :)