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Pet peeve misspellings?

A couple of mine are:

tommorrow (should be "tomorrow")

definately (should be "definitely")

What are yours?

Update:

I had another question entitled "Pet peeve misused words?" for things like:

- your / you're

- there / their / they're

- to / too / two (thanks Lucky Ducky)

- its / it's (thanks Mosaic)

- "could OF" instead of "could HAVE" (Where do people get this one from? LOL)

but since we're discussing all these things here, I deleted my other question.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Eye halve a spelling chequer

    It came with my pea sea

    It plainly marques four my revue

    Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

    Eye strike a key and type a word

    And weight four it two say

    Weather eye am wrong oar write

    It shows me strait a weigh.

    As soon as a mist ache is maid

    It nose bee fore two long

    And eye can put the error rite

    Its rarely ever wrong.

    Eye have run this poem threw it

    I am shore your pleased two no

    Its letter perfect in it's weigh

    My chequer tolled me sew

    Source(s): Fred the dog ~¶¶ö
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I've never seen tomorrow spelled like that, but I do see "definitely" spelled incorrectly very often. Millennium is spelled wrong a lot of times and I must admit I spell it wrong most of the time. Weird is another one. Most of my pet peeves, however have to do with subject-verb agreement. That particular type of mistake is abrasive to the ear.

  • SPLATT
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm a 'creative' speller myself. So, I only complain about the ones where the questions or answers are so bad that I can't read them.

    However, I expect people to use the check spelling first.

  • 1 decade ago

    I can't stand when people misuse words like two/to/too, their/there/they're. It is something taught in schools as commonly misused. I am 26 and I can't tell you how many people my age still don't know the difference. I figure if it is something that is so common wouldn't you make a point to learn to use them correctly? DUH!!!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, try to be forgiving!

    There are some difference in the UK English way of spelling and he US English spelling, but tomorrow isn't one

  • 1 decade ago

    The: to, too, and two. THAT ticks me off, and it's not even a misspelling.

    --

    Lucky Ducky

    Any careless spelling mistake.

    i.e. ANY

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I can't stand it when people mix up "affect" and "effect". The former is the verb, the latter is the noun. Is it really that hard to remember?

  • 1 decade ago

    I allwayz hait it wen peepl misspell stuf. It reely maiks mee aingrie.

  • 1 decade ago

    DefinAtely is non-existent. DefinItely is correct.

  • pyg
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    i think definately is acceptable in th uk and elsewhere.

    for me it's mostly typos and they're mostly mine.

    ot, fro, adn, etc...

    plus the beauts when you position your hands on the keyboard the wrong way.

    yjr rmf. (the end)

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