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I curious about the spelling of a few terms that seem to be appearing in a few stories I have been reading.

shutter instead of shudder - "I shuddered at the creepy story"rather than "I shutter at that creepy story"
and the other one

"to do with" - some people writing "to due with."

Am I old fashioned?

I am curious on others thoughts

Comments

Ooops

Wish I could use better grammar too lol *Brain going faster than fingers*

No, if you search back a ways

No, if you search back a ways, I actually posted up a list of the most common grammar 'fails' that I run across in stories.

shutter vs shudder (close vs shaking)
ensure vs insure (make certain of vs take precautions against)
discreet vs discrete (quiet, sneaky vs distinctly separate or different ) (This one is probably THE most common)
loose vs lose (to let go, or not be tight, vs to fail, or forget where you put something)
rack vs wrack (an object to use for stacking, or to be tortured, vs messy wreckage) (wrack and ruin or racked with pain)
phase vs faze (to have a similar frequency or condition, vs disturbed)

There are a few more, but that's the quick list.

BW


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

What about

'I poured over the document,' vs I pored over the document. I always find this one jarring and I think a lot of spell checkers miss it.
Here are some words people also misuse

abhorrent / aberrant

accept / except

ado / adieu

adopt / adapt

adverse / averse

affect / effect

afflict / inflict

aggravate / irritate

allude / elude

allusion / illusion / delusion

alternate / alternative

ambiguous / ambivalent

amicable / amiable

amoral / immoral

amuse / bemuse

anecdote / antidote

appraise / apprise

assume / presume

assure / ensure / insure

aural / oral / verbal

bare / bear

bazaar / bizarre

breach / breech

bridal / bridle

capital / capitol

censor / censure

cite / site / sight

climactic / climatic

complement / compliment

compose / comprise

concurrent / consecutive

confident / confidant(e)

connotation / denotation

connote / denote

conscious / conscience

contemptible / contemptuous

continual / continuous

correlation / corollary

council / counsel

decent / descent / dissent

definitely / definitively

demur / demure

didactic / pedantic

disassemble / dissemble

discomfit / discomfort

discreet / discrete

disillusion / dissolution

disinterested / uninterested

dual / duel

economic / economical

elusive / illusive

emigrate / immigrate / migrate

eminent / imminent

eminent / imminent / immanent

empathy / sympathy

endemic / epidemic

entitle / title

entomology / etymology

envelop / envelope

envy / jealousy

epigram / epigraph

epitaph / epithet

especially / specially

exalt / exult

exercise / exorcise

expedient / expeditious

extant / extent

farther / further

faze / phase

ferment / foment

figuratively / literally

flair / flare

flaunt / flout

flounder / founder

formerly / formally

formidable / formative

fortunate / fortuitous

gibe / jibe

gig / jig

gorilla / guerrilla

grisly / gristly / grizzly

hale / hail

healthful / healthy

hero / protagonist

historic / historical

hoard / horde

homonym / homophone / homograph

hone / home

imply / infer

incredible / incredulous

indeterminate / indeterminable

indict / indite

inflammable / inflammatory

ingenious / ingenuous

insidious / invidious

instant / instance

intense / intensive / intent

introvert / extrovert

irony / satire / sarcasm

it's / its

laudable / laudatory

lay / lie

loath / loathe

lose / loose

luxuriant / luxurious

marital / martial

mean / median / average

medal / meddle / mettle

metaphor / simile

moral / morale

morbid / moribund

nauseated / nauseous

naval / navel

objective / subjective

optimistic / pessimistic

palate / palette / pallet

paradox / oxymoron

parameter / perimeter

parody / parity

peak / peek / pique

peddle / pedal / petal

persecute / prosecute

personal / personnel

pitiable / pitiful / piteous / pitiless

pore / pour

practical / practicable

pragmatic / dogmatic

precede / proceed

precedent / president

predominate / predominant

premier / premiere

prescribe / proscribe

principal / principle

prophecy / prophesy

prostate / prostrate

quote / quotation

rebut / refute

regrettably / regretfully

reluctant / reticent

respectfully / respectively

sac / sack

scrimp / skimp

sensual / sensuous

simple / simplistic

stationary / stationery

statue / statute

than / then

that / which

their / there / they're

tortuous / torturous

turbid / turgid

unconscionable / unconscious

unexceptional / unexceptionable

venal / venial

veracious / voracious

wave / waive

weather / whether / wether

who / whom

who's / whose

your / you're

I am very bad with 'it/s' in particular.

Crikeys

Thanks for the list. Even with my vocabulary, a couple of those caught me out(ie had to look up the meaning)
The trick with its/it's is something I've always remembered - if it is fits then "it's" is correct

Thanks

I'll try to remember that.

Various Annoyances

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"Tounge" for "tongue" (presumably rhymes with "lounge").
"Loose" for "lose". True, "lose" is an irregular spelling.
"Comprised of" or the subject and object reversed with "comprise". (This second error is as old as Christian Science.) I think that "comprise" should be left to patent applications. "The alphabet comprises the letters A through Z," is the correct statement. "A through Z comprise the alphabet," and "The alphabet is comprised of A through Z," are wrong.

Of course, no matter how perfectly well I know which is which, "their", "they're", and "there" will come out scrambled for me. So will other words. (I wonder if I'm the only person to inadvertently type "know" for "no". Usually I catch it.)

Rule 1: English along with other languages has dialects.
Rule 2: Many people will gripe about all dialects other than their own.
Rule 3: Language gradually changes.
Rule 4: People will gripe about how language is changing, using some tasteless metaphor or simile.

-- Dyslexics Untied!

-- Daphne Xu

American English, English English, Ausi English and NZ English

Depending on where a person is, various words are spelled differently, and pronounced differently. I find it all quite charming, but I must say that some 'mercans throw a right bloody fit, thinking that the whole ruddy world should conform to our Colonist leanings. My brain can handle the same word spelled differently and it adds spice to my otherwise boring day. The plonkers that complain can bugger off and go suck up to Trump as far as I'm concerned.

Wait until you spend a large part of your time around Middle Easterners and have to get used to their calling pop, Bepsi, and people, Beeple.

If I could turn the clock back 50 years, I would try to go to college and get a degree in International Relations, and Anthropology.

There is an author here from Far Europe and his sentence structure reflects that. I can deal with it.

G'day mate.

Gwen

Spelling and all that jazz

Well said Gwen. I still get called out (not here thankfully) about my insistence in using 'proper' english spelling.
I remember the battles I had with getting Product Manuals approced when I worked for an American Computer company. Even if the product was 'not for sale or use in the USA' they insisted that we use American spelling despite both versions being in the US Dictionary.

The (IMHO) worst fopah (amongst many) I see these days is actually the inability to distinguish between "your" and "you are" and "you're".

Don't even get me started on the increasing trend to include 'text speak' into written documents.

I hold my hand up and will gladly say that I'm not perfect. As a Dsylexic I have a get out of jail card but I know that I've come a long way from aged 16 and not being able to spell the simple word 'being'. (Hangs head in shame and shudders at the memories of that experience)

Personally, I might go 'tut-tut' at a spelling or grammar error in work that I'm not paying for but even proper books that I have spent money on have errors that the proof readers should have spotted. In those cases, I feel a tad robbed.
It has become worse with people self-publishing e-books. Far too many of them have simple errors.

English

When I wrote "Katia in Afghanistan", the main protagonist was a British Officer, so I dutifully tried to make his use of English authentic to central England to include spellings. As one might expect, Americans threw a right fit, and some of the folks from the UK made fun of my awkward attempts to make it all authentic. It has been some time since I looked at the story, but I think someone sneakily "fixed" it to make it conform to American standards. I was quite pissed about it, but finally gave up. I find the lack of respect for Americans abroad to be unsurprising.

Gwen

Disappointed in my fellow countrymen/women

Gwen, I am sorry my fellow countrymen/women were rude over your use of an English regional accent, a bit mean and not very British*. Although some may I hope have been tongue in cheek. Our sense of humour (**shared with the lands of the big mouse and Hobbit world) is I think an acquired taste. Although we continue to contaminate any American who should accidentally set foot on our shores with videos of 'Monty Pythons Flying Circus' and 'Last Of The Summer Wine'.

Sophie
*After all where would the movies be without Brits and Americans doing terrible impersonations of each others version of English!
**Should have included the gentle folk of Canada here as they are cousins of Hobbit's, who are of course English!

G'day mate

I think Aussie/NZ english and English english are probably the closest in both meaning and spelling. I'm old enough to remember the rhyming slang eg dog & bone for phone and hit the frog & toad for hit the road. Most of that has slipped out of common usage nowadays. (well we do a have mostly a convict heritage) although we are fast becoming a multicultural country.

I grew up in a heavy

I grew up in a heavy immigrant, refugee, and English as a second language speaking city so a lot of what I learned growing up was misheard leading to mangled phrases and statements that get missed by spell check and even grammar checker.

It could be a lot worse. Here in New England we have to fight the rest of the country when it comes to spelling places. Most other places have cities and towns with "-boro" but we keep the original British spellings of "-borough". Then we have the confusing places of Gloucester, Haverhill, Worcester, Leicester to name a few that unless you grew up around those names you would not have the slightest clue as to how to pronounce them.

I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime

Pronunciation of NE place names?

I know Gloucester (glaw-ster), Worcester (wuss-ter), and Leicester (less-ter ?) AFAIK, these are based on the English pronunciation, so they're pronounced the same even in other parts of the USA. (There's a Gloucester in Virginia, where I grew up.)

What is the correct pronunciation of Haverhill, though, if it's not the obvious one?

It's 'have-rill'

It's 'have-rill'


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

That's the thing, unless you

That's the thing, unless you grew up in and around those places you see the "weird" spelling and mispronounce the names. Worcester has been mangled so often it's spelling in other places has changed in both spelling and pronunciation

I cringed after watching this clip but it shows the point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckzNzbF5E4

I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime

I used

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To live near Cookna which is spelt Cogenhoe!

I find that a lot of the poor grammar is rooted in poor educational standards. We can all manage a misspelled word or two but the worst examples are phonetic spellings that it's difficult to work out what the intended word was! There are stories on BC and elsewhere that i've started and had to give up on due to atrocious grammar and punctuation - they may be quite good but i'm not going to try to decipher them.

English is the most difficult language to learn - it's amazing any non native speakers learn it yet they do and because they are taught from zero knowledge often end up speaking it better than native speakers. They are sometimes hampered by trying to use their native sentence structure with English - it can have comical results!

Globalisation of the language has meant changes in language/meaning which can be a minefield - just look at the word gay.

The use of regional language in writing needs to be done with care - if you lay it on too thick the reader can easily be lost - around these parts we often make a big thing of the dialect, tongue in cheek, particularly with furreners - ie anyone from outside the area! We have whole (not hole) books in dialect 'appen, but they are intended as a laugh for visitors. Believe it or not we write in standard English even if we do lose the odd H etc when we speak!

Well that's my two penn'th (a contraction of pennies worth) on the subject.


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Madeline Anafrid Bell

We realy are NEW England

Right ! even news casters in Boston pronounce our citys incorrectly. Don't forget Peabody (Pee-bid -ee) and another, a small costal town,
Nahant (Nuh-hant) like your dad's sister,aunt (Not ant).

Karen

Could be worse

I live in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, and badly mispronounced place names.

Marseilles pronounced Mar sails.
Vienna - Vie enna
Cairo - Care o
Bourbonnais - this one is actually special because I have heard three different pronunciations, all by people from there.

Basically any city with French name is pronounced wrong, read it like it was a horribly spelled English word.

Even the village of New Berlin, pronounces it differently.

Illinois

Itself a mispronounced French transliteration of the Native Ee-an-wah...

One More "Regular" on Lists Like This...

Speech or singing emanates from a person's vocal cords, not vocal chords.

A chord includes two or more simultaneous notes, hard to do by one speaker/singer, a few Asian throat singers excepted. (And even they are only using their vocal cords for one of the two voices, as I understand it. The other comes directly from the diaphragm.)

Eric

(Thanks mostly to old spellcheckers, there's also "cubical" (three-dimensional and six-sided) vs "cubicle" (a small, enclosed work or sleep space). And the only "draws" that I'm aware of offhand as a noun are seedings in a tournament or random selections. Underwear and sliding spaces in a desk or bureau are "drawers" -- even in dialects that don't pronounce the second syllable.)

Engish

is not always straightforward even for those who speak the language. I believe it is one of the hardest languages to learn as well - it is certainly NOT phonetic. as your draws and drawers shows. I also believe it is the language with the most words.

Jo

I think

That's something most of us take for granted until we meet someone who isn't as fluent. Where I come from we start learning English at four or five. The tv's cement that. Though its not my native tongue I am far more fluent in it than I am in any of the other 4 languages I speak. My worst subject at school was actually the one we spoke at home and the teacher excused me saying I obviously wasn't a native speaker (lol my mother was shocked!). I even think in English, which is as far mental colonisation can get. I frequently find myself correcting the newsreaders and the spelling in newspapers. Still you always learn something new here, so thanks for this.

Sydney

Your native tongue?

If it's not too nosy of me, what is your native tongue?

Based on some of your stories, I'd assumed you were from South Africa, so would it be Afrikaans?

I disagree, strongly.

I disagree, strongly. English is the easiest language to learn to use. It may be the hardest to master.

'Pidgin' English, meaning enough to get the meaning across, can be done with just two hundred or so words. The reason for this is that English, unlike many languages, doesn't get quite as hung up on tense, gender, and order of the words. Despite there being a proper order, if someone walked in and said "bathroom go I need", just about everyone would understand that the person's bladder was about to explode. Even 'need toilet' works. You can't do it in French, or Spanish, etc - which depend on word choice, order, tense, and gender.

It's based on the fact that English is, at it's core, a trade language developed out of Angles trying to chat up Saxon barmaids. I find it harder to understand accents than word choices, when dealing with people that learned English in, say, south India.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Ah, the French 'gallic shrug'

tells you that you may have made a tiny mistake is what you said to them. Even the tiniest error can get them to ignore everything you said.
I've even seen this done to native French speakers from Paris in places like the Cevennes. Ironically that same person later gave me the benefit of the doubt because I was trying to speak French. Funny lot the French.

I disagree too

You are right only if English is the very first language to learn. When English is the second or rather the third or even the fourth (as it was in my case when I was twelve) language to learn it's very hard... to squeeze into English sentence one of six tenses then one of three genders in one of three number in one of four moods with some participles in one of twenty six forms.

ah, but that's the point I

ah, but that's the point I was attempting to make. English has three tenses, and even if you mess them up, you can be understood by context. It is also a genderless language, and even the formal/informal forms have vanished. (thee thou thy thine)


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Sure, there is no problem to

Sure, there is no problem to ask for coffee in caffe if waitress does understand what I say (not fonetic alphabet is a nice addition). But I have a story and I need to make it English. There are more than a dozen of words that are translated simply as "girl" but all of them are different and have different meaning. Some parts of the story in English would be a nonsese because it's based on gender of things, animals and phenomena.

I see the confusion. I was

I see the confusion. I was talking about what it takes to use the language, and you were talking about mastering the language.

Yes, English has a lot of variations - but many of those are because of the Great Vowel Shift, rather than adoptions from other languages.

As for gender? I really don't see how the gender of animal _names_ is at all useful, let alone the gender of items. Who cares that an automobile is feminine. It doesn't _have_ gender, nor sex! (Let alone intercourse, except among a certain weird minority fetish population).

(Let's not get started with the _nine_ ways of handling tense, not including irregulars, in French)


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

More word pairs

"dominate" instead of "dominant"

"do to" instead of "due to"

Sydney (twilight_gal) got most of my pet peeves, and in fact, I learned a few things.

I'd always said "unconscienceable", but I see it's not in my pocket dictionary, and "unconscionable" is.

And for some reason, I always thought the verb to "prophecy" was "prophecize", but I see it's "prophesy" (where the "y" is pronounced like the "ie" in "die")

Oh, while we're playing copy editor peeves: run-on sentences. I always have to read them twice before I can figure out where to break them.

Among my peeves

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is the nonsensical Americanism, 'I could care less,' the expression is, 'I couldn't care less,' and the inability of some people to realise the difference between then and than. Then is word linked to time, 'Then I did so and so.' Than is linked to comparison, 'I love you more than chocolate cake.'

Angharad

It's probably a southern

It's probably a southern distortion, because of slurring words during sentences caused by what's referred to as a 'drawl'. It doesn't make it correct, just pointing out the most likely origin for the bad grammar.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

Spoken vs written

erin's picture

"I could care less" is irony while "I couldn't care less" is merely emphatic.

It's hard to tell the difference in print but the inflection when you hear it said is distinct. At least it is with speakers who realize it is ironic. :)

And no, it isn't based on a drawled Southern pronunciation; the Southern pronunciation of "couldn't" would be "coo'n't".

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Oddly enough, at least in

Oddly enough, at least in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, it's just 'couldn' The "T" vanishes. The other consonants stay intact. (the "I" becomes 'Ah', of course)

Losing the 'n' becomes simple after that.


I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

You're right

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I tend to think of my own accent as Southern, but it isn't, it's Arkansas which is a Border South dialect. We have a twang instead of a drawl. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

It gets worse

OMG! You're an Arkie ! Depending on where in Arkansas you live, the accents are different. Just like in Massachusetts, I'm north of Boston, and sound much different from those in western Mass. You know, paark -park, caah-car, tuner-tuna.
Karen

True

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There are four major accents in Arkansas, with black and white variants of each. My parents were from the Ozarks and I was born on Crowley's Ridge so we have the Hillbilly twang. Bill Clinton is from the southwest corner so he had a Flatlander accent, which is almost like East Texas. The southeast of the state has a real Southern Delta drawl ala Mississippi, and the Little Rock accent sounds like you mixed the other three and recorded at 33-1/3 for playback at 45. They're the only people in the state who talk fast. :)

I was born there but I've never lived in Arkansas, we lived in Missouri but the HOSPITAL was across the river.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

I understand.

I was born in a big city hospital, but lived in a little suburban town,either that or clear the dining room table.
So you're a show me. You must like Flatt and Scrugs. You sweet thang. 8-)

Karen

Sure...

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Doesn't everyone like Flatt and Scruggs? But that's bluegrass which is from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia. Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and Conway Twitty are the guys from near where I was born. :)

I had a cousin who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry; her specialty was Appalachian songs, Wilma Lee Cooper. She and her husband, Stoney Cooper, had several country music hits back around 1960. I saw her on a Grand Ole Opry tv special singing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton(?) one year in the 1990s. She wasn't a close relative, my Dad's 2nd cousin. :)

Stoney sure 'nuff played bluegrass fiddle but Wilma Lee's singing was not in the bluegrass "high lonesome" style but more a big gospel sound, full and rich. She got an obit in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/arts/music/wilma-lee-coope....

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Apalachin Country

I love that sort of country music, but it always seems to go to Southern Country and I dislike that.

Gwen

Ravish vs. Ravage.

one ravishes their lover. One ravages a village by burning it to to the ground. Radish is whole different kettle of fish LOL!

Waist vs waste. One wears a belt around one's waist. One thows trash away in a waste receptacle.

I have honestly seen the word Vagina, replaced by, I kid you not, Virginia. I laughed more than anything else.

Their vs they're vs there. nuff said.

To vs too. And let's not forget the ever popular heels vs. heals. One wears heels on one's feet. One heals an injury.

As one other commenter stated, I am FAR from perfect and I make no pretense of perfection, but spelling errors and improper punctuation CAN take me completely OUT of an otherwise good story. Maybe I am different in one way. If I have to use a word I do not know the proper spelling of, I USE A DICTIONARY... and I still make the ocassional error. I like to think I learn from my mistakes.

My MAJOR beef right now? Using "internetese" or text speak in a written format like a story. To me it indicates a poorly educated person, or a lazy one.

Catherine Linda Michel

As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script. Y_0.jpg

Waist Disposal

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I've imagined a "waist disposal" bin. It involves a magic trick.

I know perfectly well which is the correct choice in they're, their, there; know, no; its, it's; and other examples. Nevertheless, I'm guaranteed to screw them up. I'll catch the errors a certain fraction of the time. Don't tell me, "don't" or "Don't do it." I can't help it. I don't even notice it until after I've done it, if then.

-- Daphne Xu

I found this a while ago - read it out loud first;

Here is some text that passes a spell-check!! Translation comes later. And its it's have been corrected
AP
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Spell Czech; Spoil cheque; Spill Chuck

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OR Spell Check x 3
I have a spell checker which came with my PC. It plainly marks for my review mistakes I cannot see. I strike a key and type a word and wait for it to say. Whether I am right or wrong it shows me straight away. As soon as a mistake is made, it knows before too long and I can put the error right. It's rarely ever wrong. I ran this ode through my checker I am sure you’re pleased to know. It's letter perfect all the way, my checker told me so.

Any letter that you’re writing must be properly spelt; with legible writing for the reader may be thick. Use the spell-check always and remember what it does - because in future it’ll happen that you must do it all again. Tell your friends about this letter. Show them everything. But be aware that one mistake may ruin all your work. Words may be spelt all right but not mean what they seem. You would have to know exactly what was meant to understand the whole. Here, in the whole thing, grammatical mistakes are few but some words do seem to be strangely spelt. Punctuation also can be in error. A hint, for simplicity, read it out loud or phonetic-ally, being careful for spoonerisms. Happy Puzzling.

While every word passes the spell-checker, it is clear that there are errors.

AP - adapted and extended from an old favourite.

Checked

The "It's" I can see twice is correct, but "phonetic-ally"?

spell check

I hate the auto-spell checker built into my computer and this site, it's hard to over-come

Karen

No Spellcheck Here

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Just as an FYI, there is NO (None, Zero) Spell Checker built into BigCloset TopShelf/Hatbox. Most web browsers (Chrome, Edge, FireFox) have a spell check notification built in which highlights but does not actually CHANGE words unless you right-click on them and tell it to change them. Many Mobiles (Phones/Tablets or anything using Android or iOS) will actually CHANGE what it thinks are misspellings when you use an on-screen keyboard, but not so much so when you use a physical keyboard (Bluetooth or USB connected).

Hope this information helps you.
-Piper


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