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On a complete tangent, I think "rogue" might be the most misspelled word for those that otherwise have good spelling. It's still jarring every time I see it, d
by kbenson 7y ago
On a complete tangent, I think "rogue" might be the most misspelled word for those that otherwise have good spelling. It's still jarring every time I see it, decade after decade.
And "loose" instead of "lose", but that one is just confusing.
- jjeaff 7y agoI legitimately thought we were talking about reddish colored fiddles for a moment.
- naikrovek 7y agoI see "break" ALL THE TIME where "brake" should be used. rouge -> rogue loose -> lose lose -> loose break -> brake And many more that I can't recall at the moment... In my youth I spent an absolutely obscene amount of energy correcting these people, bit now I just automatically lower the veracity of what they're saying each time I see some literacy problem. That isn't fair to those people because not everyone speaks English as a first language, and phones autocorrect a lot of things that should not be corrected.
- meowface 7y ago"lead -> led" (past tense of the verb "to lead") is also a pretty common one for native speakers.
- dorgo 7y agoon the other hand, if nobody had corrected my use of "loose" I wouldn't know it.
- def_true_false 7y agoSome of these are actually mistakes native speakers are prone to make, since they didn't learn the language from text first.
- sangnoir 7y ago"Tounge" really grinds my gears, I don't know why.