[Big Mac]

The MacNN List of Commonly Misspelled Words Online:

1. Common Spelling: Rediculous; True Spelling: ridiculous - I see this one all the time!

2. Common Spelling: Definately; True Spelling: definitely - rapidly working its way to the top spot

[Railroader]

Congradulations

[phillryu]

3. Common Spelling: Rouge; True spelling: Rogue - Mostly comes up with video games Rogue Leader and World of Warcraft

[CharlesS]

Common spelling: kernal; True spelling: kernel
Common spelling: MAC; True spelling: Mac
Common spelling: Expose; True spelling; Exposé
Common spelling: teh; True spelling; the

[tooki]

(wrong spelling :: right spelling)

tounge or toungue :: tongue
effect/affect :: affect/effect
u :: you

[ManOfSteal]

Common Spelling: goricky; True Spelling: gorickey - I see this one all the time!

Common Spelling: ManOfSteel; True Spelling: ManOfSteal - rapidly working its way to the top spot

[CharlesS]

Common spelling: dependancy; True spelling: dependency
Common spelling: pwned; True spelling: owned
Common spelling: Macintosh HD:Libraryrinters; True spelling: Macintosh HD:Library:Printers
Common spelling: 1O\/\/|\|5J005UX0R5!!!!!; True spelling: I'm not really sure what this means

[jasonsRX7]

Duel when meaning to say Dual

[ihatesuvs68]

Accept and Except are switched around a lot.

Same with your and you're.

Both piss me off.

[faragbre967]

There/their/they're ftw

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by faragbre967

There/their/they're ftw

Here, here! This list is for loosers (if there where any).

[analogika]

supposably (supposedly)
loose (lose)

[Gankdawg]

payed :: paid

[MindFad]

Then/than

[bradoesch]

Originally Posted by CharlesS

Common spelling: 1O\/\/|\|5J005UX0R5!!!!!; True spelling: I'm not really sure what this means

1 own sjoo suxors

Translate:

I own (I'm better than) you suckers.

Or something like that.

[Xeo]

Originally Posted by bradoesch

1 own sjoo suxors

Translate:

I own (I'm better than) you suckers.

Or something like that.

I think it's "I own, you suck."

[Ghoser777]

separate (there's a rat in sepa rate!)

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by phillryu

3. Common Spelling: Rouge; True spelling: Rogue - Mostly comes up with video games Rogue Leader and World of Warcraft

...and Rogue of the X-Men.

#1 by a mile: it's when people mean its

[Big Mac]

Originally Posted by lavar78

...and Rogue of the X-Men.

#1 by a mile: it's when people mean its

Well, that's more of a sentence mechanics error.

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Well, that's more of a sentence mechanics error.

Actually, I think people just misspell "its" most of the time. It's very rare that you see the opposite.

[SVass]

esquimeaux-eskimo

[Oisín]

intarweb - Internet
evar - ever
here - hear (in “hear, hear”, as Tetenal so subtly pointed out)
Oisin or Olsin - Oisín (hey, it goManofRickysteel can do it, I can too)

Originally Posted by SVass

esquimeaux-eskimo

Except that it should be Esquimeaux and Eskimo respectively, and Esquimeaux is only plural, where Eskimo can be either singular or plural.

Besides, how often to we talk about Eskimos here? And who spells it Esquimeaux, anyway (besides French people)?

[Peder Rice]

Originally Posted by Gankdawg

payed :: paid

Actually, "payed" appears to be acceptable. I've always preferred "paid" but it indeed appears to be a valid past participle.

Webster's New World [Insert Foreign Language Here] Dictionary includes a list of common English participles, some of which surprised me to some extent.

- He has shorn/sheared.
- He has quit/quitted.
- He has spoiled/spoilt.
- He has sped/speeded.
- He has bet/betted.

And besides, with past participles, at least one dictionary surely considers it a correct form

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by Peder Rice

Actually, "payed" appears to be acceptable. I've always preferred "paid" but it indeed appears to be a valid past participle.

AFAIK, "payed" is only acceptable in certain (uncommon) instances.

[ManOfSteal]

Common Spelling: Supercalifragiliciousexpialidocious ; True Spelling: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[ironknee]

masturbation... oh, in THIS lounge...oh ummm bill gates (devil on earth)

side-note: I still cringe when i hear people say OfTen for often. I remember being taught from an early school age that it's pronounced ofen like soften and listen...i know it's right to say it either way...but not for me.

[SVass]

Originally Posted by Oisín

Besides, how often to we talk about Eskimos here? And who spells it Esquimeaux, anyway (besides French people)?

If you don't like Esquimeaux how about Callipygian

[chabig]

break (brake)

[rjenkinson]

Originally Posted by Oisín

Except that it should be Esquimeaux and Eskimo respectively, and Esquimeaux is only plural, where Eskimo can be either singular or plural.

Besides, how often to we talk about Eskimos here? And who spells it Esquimeaux, anyway (besides French people)?

actually, it's spelled "inuit."

-r.

[bradoesch]

Originally Posted by Xeo

I think it's "I own, you suck."

That makes more sense.

I guess you are more 133t.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by SVass

If you don't like Esquimeaux how about Callipygian

I prefer callipygean, but other than that, I tend to like it very much

(Especially because it's such a useful word—you can comment on other people's asses, and mostly they won't even be aware of it)

Originally Posted by rjenkinson

actually, it's spelled "inuit."

No, Eskimo and Inuit are two different things. Inuit only includes the Eskimo peoples of Northern Canada and Greenland, who speak Inuit (Inuktitut) languages. The Eskimos of Alaska speak either Inupiaq or Yupik languages, and are not Inuits. If you want to be fully PC, you'd have to refer to them as either Inupiaq or Yupik, since calling them Inuit would be a case of political correctness (possibly) being offensive.

Still, as far as I know, Eskimo is only considered politically incorrect in Canada and the US. Over here, there is nothing offensive whatsoever about the word Eskimo, and Greenlandic people usually refer to themselves as Eskimos, rather than Inuits, in Danish.

Originally Posted by ironknee

masturbation...

You mean 'masterbation'?


Re: Paid/payed: Lavar is right, payed is the past tense of pay when it means to put either pitch or tar on the seams or fissures in the hull of a wooden ship, to prevent water from being able to penetrate the hull of the ship. You can learn many such useful things by reading “Tales of Protection” by Erik Fosnes Hansen.

[Eug Wanker]

pwned

EDIT:

OK, fixed: pwn3d

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

pwned

Dooood, you're way too late with that one:

Originally Posted by CharlesS

Common spelling: pwned; True spelling: owned

[budster101]

T his is officialy teh seinfelt thred.