Watch your spelling and your homonyms. And maybe your synonyms too.
Homonym: Words that sound alike but are spelled differently. (Actually homophones - too, two, to) Or words that are spelled alike but have different meanings, such as bear and bear or quail and quail.
Words commonly misused, and I figure you can look up the definitions:
accept and except
affect and effect
their and there and they’re
capital and capitol
new and knew
bear and bear and bare
too and two and to
Words I see misspelled all the time:
separate and separately
different
definite and definitely
oriented (unfortunately orientated is now accepted, but I wish it was excepted.)
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Always a nice reminder. Nothing like some hot buns to start the day!
DEFINATE! OH MY GOD! One of these days I’m going to start correcting peoples’ tweets and it’s gonna get ugly.
Tweeting and facebook I can live with … too easy to type a post, hit enter and realize you’re (just kidding) … your brain threw in the wrong word. But a book? No excuse there. Between crit partners and editors words should not be misused.
I’m so bad with affect and effect, I have a BIG sign next to my computer. Another one people misuse, because it’s not common is complIment and complEment.
Nina, Affect and effect mess me up every time, too. I’m pretty sure there’s no other words more confusing than those, at least in my book!
Nina and Julianne, you are not alone with affect and effect.
Oh Penny - I DEFINATELY think DEFINATE is the misspelled word that drives me the craziest!
Yes, Amber, hot buns in the morning. Yum!
definite and definitely. the *oh sh*t what is it called???Post something.* post thing, ly, that turns the adjective into an adverb usually doesn’t change the root word.
I live in fear of writing the wrong word. I’m dyslectic and have some odd connection problem, I can think the word “house” but type the word “door”. Needless to say I have to a lot of clean-up on my ms’. I try to concentrate on what someone is trying to communicate and ignore the misspellings. With all the hate and stupidity being spewed through social media these days, spelling is the least offensive thing to worry about. In my opinion it’s time to think about what’s really being said.
XXOO Kat
Hey, Kat - you don’t have to live in fear, but you’re aware you might use the wrong word so you pay attention. I’m dyslexic as well - to some extent. I agree, content and character are way more important than spelling, but spelling is important in your manuscript or say…an article. Sometimes one misspelled word can ruin what is otherwise a great post.