Top 10 Misspelled words in Blogs
The Probabilist blog has a nice article with the most misspelled words in blogs. Those words are tricky because most of the times people are not actually misspelling but rather misusing them, and spell checkers can not detect those mistakes. Below you will find the 10 words, make sure to pay attention when you use them again:
1. Your – You’re
2. Then – Than
3. Its – It’s
4. To – Too – Two
5. Were – Where – We’re
6. There – Their – They’re
7. A – An – And
8. Off – Of
9. Here – Hear
10. Lose – Loose
You can read the article with explanations for each word here.
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Yeah i would say i have misused words in the past however it is also hard to spell words correctly relating to who your audience is.
I have trouble trying to decide between the america way of spelling
“optimization” or the English way of spelling “Optimisation”
How about Mispelled domain
mispelled words often give us the mispelled visitors..ha..ha
My top misspelled word is You/your. More of a typo than bad spelling
My other top problem is a/an before vowel. But this is more syntax related than spelling.
The other problem tho is differences between English and British spelling, color / colour as an example.