Thread: Favorite typos

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    Favorite typos

    my favorite typo has to be the word:
    Definitely (spelled correctly here)

    it seems like everyone spells it differently.
    Whats your favorite?
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    "ambiguity"
    "ambiguous" (had to look it up, I always spelling this word)

    For swedes "interesting" and "address" can be hard.
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    It's quite funny to search for misspelled words on google and see how many hits you get.

    "definitly" yields 80k hits.
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    >>80k hits
    ROTFLMAO
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    "tchotchke" is quite hard to spell, too
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    Documents. I cannot spell this word (I spelled it wrong the first time I typed it in here).

    I'm about ready to create a symlink to my ~/Documents directory called Docuemnts (Which is always how I misspell it)

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    successfully... I can spell it now, but for a while I used to always forget a 'c' or an 's' or an 'l'

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    teh, definitely teh. It's also the most annoying to me when I'm typing.

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    parallel, independent, analysing, favourite (always put 'e' after 'v'), appraisal and management to name a few.

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    Originally posted by BMJ
    successfully... I can spell it now, but for a while I used to always forget a 'c' or an 's' or an 'l'
    You aren't alone:
    From Google
    Searched the web for succesfully. Results 1 - 10 of about 108,000
    Searched the web for sucessfully. Results 1 - 10 of about 71,500
    Searched the web for successfuly. Results 1 - 10 of about 23,100
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    In fact hang on, looking at the title, how do you spell favourite?

    favourite or favorite? grrrrr.....my country invented the language and I can't even speak it!!

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    My favorite typos are the ones I don't make.
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    -Isaiah 30.7

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    The word development- I usually like to add an 'e' after the 'p'
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    Waldo, I saw in your sig that you have a Stone quote from 104.9. I live in Belvidere, IL and listen to 104.9 all the time. My fave is whenever Stone tries to say "Nir-Vah-Nah" but says "Nir-Var-Nah."

    //napKIN
    "The best way to get answers is to just keep working the problem, recognizing when you are stalled, and directing the search pattern.....Don’t just wait for The Right Thing to strike you – try everything you think might even be in the right direction, so you can collect clues about the nature of the problem."
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    My favorite mispronounced word would have to be "nuclear" hehehe

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