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Kawmunly Miss Spelt Werds
& Unright Phraseology

This section contains the commonly misspelled, misheard, and mistaken.
That is, words and phrases that the majority of the population seems to find confounding these days.

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The following is a list of silly offenses against the English language that I have actually seen or heard. Italics indicate the error(s). Corrections follow the >>.
[Bracketted statements are just commentary I couldn't resist adding.]

“would of been okay,” “must of been" etc. >> have [Word automatically changes this one!]
“sneaky suspicion” >> sneaking
“with that been said” >> being, or having been
“page in a half” >> and
“once and awhile” >> in
stageties” >> strategies
“Someone reminder why she loves this job” >> remind her
“I'm going to beat him to a bolivian” >> an oblivion
“head over hills” >> heels
“for all intensive purposes” >> intents and
“die heart fan” >> diehard

 

Common Misspellings & Errors: (mostly due to pronunciation)

“his” for “he’s”
“in” for “an”
“aloud” for “allowed”
“-en” instead of “-ing”
"are” for "our" [seeing this one a LOT the past couple years]
"one" for "won" and vice verse

then/than
there/their/they're

 

 

 

 

 

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Last update 12.8.08