Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 13:24:47 -0500

From: Kathy Burns burns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CYC.COM

Subject: Commonly misspelled words?



Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:29 CST

From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU



As we have WOTYs, perhaps we should also have Commonly Misspelled Words (Comiswords?)

I have just been asked to supply to someone on campus a list of commonly

misspelled words I have provided it's for its, their for there and there for

their. Can you assist?



Thanks,

Bethany



Here is a list of Commonly Misspelled Words taken from the

online WHRS Style Manual & Language Handbook, at

http://www.wachusett-rhs.wrsd.k12.ma.us/style#spelling, followed by

a list of misspelled/properly spelled word pairs found at

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html.



-Kathy Burns



VII. WRHS NO-EXCUSE SPELLING LIST





a lot (not alot)

absence

accept / except

accessible

accidentally

accommodate

acquainted

acquit

acquitted

affect / effect

all right (not alright)

allot

allotted

already / all ready

amateur

ambulance

among

analysis

apparent

appearance

appropriate

argument







basically

beginning

believe

benefit

benefited

benefiting

bureau

business

buy / by







calendar

campaign

cannot

category

cemetery

changeable

character

characteristic

chief

choose / chose

coarse / course

college

coming

commit

commitment

committed

committing

committee

comparative

compel

competition

conscience

conscientious

conscious

consensus

consistent

convenience

continuous

cooperate

correspondence

criticism

criticize







deceive

definite

definition

dependent

describe

description

desirable

despair

desperate

develop

development

different

dilemma

dining

disappear

disappoint

disaster

disastrous

discipline

doesn't

dominant







economical

efficiency

eighth

eliminate

embarrass

environment

equipped

essential

exaggerate

excellent

existence

explain

explanation

extraordinary







familiar

fascinating

fatal

February

finally

forth / fourth

forty

friend







government

grammar

grateful

gymnasium

harass

hear / here

height

hoping

humorous

hypocrisy

hypocrite







immediately

impostor

incidentally

inconsistent

independent

indispensable

inevitable

inoculate

insistent

interfere

interrupt

irrelevant

irresistible







jeopardy

jeopardize

judgment







knowledge







laboratory

leisure

lead / led / lead

library

license

lieutenant

lightning

loneliness

losing

luxury







maintenance

maneuver

marriage

meant

medieval

mischievous

misspell

mortgage

municipal







naive

naivet

narrative

necessary

niece

ninth

noticeable







obedient

occasion

occur

occurred

occurrence

occurring

omitted

opinion

opportunity

optimism

optimistic







paid

parallel

particularly

passed / past

pastime

performance

permanent

permissible

persistent

persistence

personal / personnel

picnicking

planning

playwright

possess

practically

precede

prefer

preferable

preference

preferred

preferring

prejudice

preparation

prerogative

prevalence

privilege

procedure

proceed

prominent

pronunciation

psychology

publicly

pursue







questionnaire

quite

quiet







receipt

receive

recognize

recommend

refer

reference

referral

referred

referring

relevant

reminisce

repetition

rhythm

rhyme







sacrilegious

scissors

seize

sentence

separate

sergeant

sheriff

siege

similar

sincerely

sophomore

subtle

succeed

sufficient

supersede

suppress

surprise

sympathy

synonym







temperament

than / then

their / there / they're

thoroughly

to / too / two

tournament

traffic

transfer

transferred

transferring

tremendous

tragedy

truly







unanimous

unnecessary

until / till (not 'til)

urgent

useful







vacuum

vengeance

villain







weird

weather / whether

which / witch

woman / women

writing







your / you're





;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;







1. annoint anoint

2. cooly coolly

3. supercede supersede

4. irresistable irresistible

5. developement development

6. alright all right

7. seperate separate

8. tyrrany tyranny

9. harrass harass

10. dessicate desiccate

11. indispensible indispensable

12. recieve receive

13. persue pursue

14. reccomend recommend

15. desparate desperate

16. liquify liquefy

17. sieze seize

18. cemetary cemetery

19. subpena subpoena

20. definately definitely

21. ocassion occasion

22. concensus consensus

23. inadvertant inadvertent

24. miniscule minuscule

25. judgement judgment

26. innoculate inoculate

27. drunkeness drunkenness

28. occurence occurrence

29. disippate dissipate

30. wierd weird

31. alot a lot

32. accomodate accommodate

33. embarassment embarrassment

34. ecstacy ecstasy

35. repitition repetition

36. batallion battalion

37. dispair despair

38. irritible irritable

39. accidently accidentally

40. liason liaison

41. momento memento

42. brocolli broccoli

43. millenium millennium

44. yeild yield

45. existance existence

46. independant independent

47. sacreligious sacrilegious

48. insistant insistent

49. excede exceed

50. priviledge privilege