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Misspelled words on AK

cubdog

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What are the most often misspelled words on AK? I nominate vinyl. This is not to be critical, I'm a terrible speller. Have some fun with this.

cubdog
 
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You American members get me every time, even though your spelling is geographically correct. I have to assume a lot of the time that words like 'advise'(v) and 'advice'(n) must be spelled the same over there?

Also no one on AK can spell 'probably'.

One more. 'Too'. As in "that is to expensive".

Then again perhaps I have a coloured view on spelling. While we're on it, the word 'Aussie' is pronounced the same as in 'Ozzy' Osbourne. :thmbsp:
 
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I can't think of a word that hasn't already been mentioned, but I will say it drives me up a wall when someone misuses an apostrophe!
 
Wow, an AK coined word in the urban dictionary.

I'm not a great speller and an even worse typist. There's seldom a post that I don't hit submit and then quickly fix an error. Some get by me.

Intentional or not, it's still misspelled. :)
 
I think the thing that offends me most is adding an apostrophe when adding a plural suffix.
 
I'm with bhundu here, the only place that have seen "prolly" used in place of "probably" is right here on AK and it appears often. I imagine that scroe is a result of a typo but where did prolly come from?
 
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