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Title: Lesson 3
Description: Commonly Misspelled Words


Zap Electro - November 29, 2005 03:07 AM (GMT)
lambchopsil edit: If you have words that you're not sure how to spell, post them here.

Hey, here's the first lesson from Zap. I'll be listing some commonly misspelled words, and if you want, tell me ones I'm missing and I will add them to this list.

absence, abundance, accessible, accidentally, acclaim, accommodate, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, achievement, acquaintance, across, address, advertisement, aggravate, alleged, annual, apparent, appearance, argument, atheist, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, balloon, barbecue, barbiturate, bargain, basically, beggar, beginning, believe, biscuit, bouillon, boundary, Britain, Buddha, business, calendar, camouflage, cantaloupe, category, cemetery, chagrined, challenge, characteristic, changing, chief, cigarette, climbed, collectible, colonel, colossal, column, coming, committee, commitment, comparative, competent, completely, concede, conceive, condemn, condescend, conscientious, consciousness, consistent, continuous, controlled, coolly, corollary, convenient, correlate, correspondence, counselor, courteous, courtesy, criticize, deceive, defendant, deferred, dependent, descend, description, desirable, despair, desperate, develop, development, difference, dilemma, dining, disappearance, disappoint, disastrous, discipline, disease, dispensable, dissatisfied, dominant, drunkenness, easily, ecstasy, efficiency, eighth, either, eligible, emperor, enemy, entirely, equipped, equivalent, especially, exaggerate, exceed, excellence, excellent, exhaust, existence, expense, experience, experiment, explanation, extremely, exuberance, fallacious, fallacy, familiar, fascinate, feasible, fictitious, finally, financially, fluorescent, forcibly, foreign, forfeit, formerly, foresee, forty, fourth, fulfill, fundamentally, gauge, generally, genius, government, governor, grievous, guarantee, guerrilla, guidance, handkerchief, happily, harass, height, heinous, hemorrhage, heroes, hesitancy, hindrance, hoarse, hoping, humorous, hypocrisy, hypocrite, ideally, idiosyncrasy, ignorance, imaginary, immediately, implement, incidentally, incredible, independence, independent, indicted, indispensable, inevitable, influential, information, inoculate, insurance, intelligence, intercede, interference, interrupt, introduce, irrelevant, irresistible, island, jealousy, judicial, knowledge, laboratory, legitimate, leisure, length, lenient, liaison, license, lieutenant, lightning, likelihood, likely, longitude, loneliness, losing, lovely, luxury, magazine, maintain, maintenance, manageable, maneuver, marriage, mathematics, medicine, millennium, millionaire, miniature, minuscule, minutes, mischievous, missile, misspelled, mortgage, mosquito, mosquitoes, murmur, muscle, mysterious, narrative, naturally, necessary, necessity, neighbor, neutron, ninety, ninth, noticeable, nowadays, nuisance, obedience, obstacle, occasion, occasionally, occurred, occurrence, official, omission, omit, omitted, opinion, opponent, opportunity, oppression, optimism, ordinarily, origin, outrageous, overrun, panicky, parallel, parliament, particularly, pavilion, peaceable, peculiar, penetrate, perceive, performance, permanent, permissible, permitted, perseverance, persistence, physical, physician, picnicking, piece, pilgrimage, pitiful, planning, pleasant, portray, possess, possessive, potato, potatoes, practically, prairie, preference, preferred, prejudice, preparation, prescription, prevalent, primitive, privilege, probably, procedure, proceed, professor, prominent, pronounce, pronunciation, propaganda, psychology, publicly, pursue, quandary, quarantine, questionnaire, quizzes, realistically, realize, really, recede, receipt, receive, recognize, recommend, reference, referred, relevant, relieving, religious, remembrance, reminiscence, repetition, representative, resemblance, reservoir, resistance, restaurant, rheumatism, rhythm, rhythmical, roommate, sacrilegious, sacrifice, safety, salary, satellite, scary, scenery, schedule, secede, secretary, seize, sentence, separate, sergeant, several, shepherd, shining, similar, simile, simply, sincerely, skiing, soliloquy, sophomore, souvenir, specifically, specimen, sponsor, spontaneous, statistics, stopped, strategy, strength, strenuous, stubbornness, subordinate, subtle, succeed, success, succession, sufficient, supersede, suppress, surprise, surround, susceptible, suspicious, syllable, symmetrical, synonymous, tangible, technical, technique, temperature, tendency, themselves, theories, therefore, thorough, though, through, till, tomorrow, tournament, tourniquet, transferred, truly, twelfth, tyranny, unanimous, undoubtedly, unnecessary, until, usage, usually, vacuum, valuable, vengeance, vigilant, village, villain, violence, visible, warrant, Wednesday, weird, wherever, wholly, yacht, yield, zoology

You won't see a whole lot of these in manga, but it's good to have a list to reference to.

AsunaNegi - November 29, 2005 03:15 AM (GMT)
damn, i was thinking about doing that exact same thing, but i didn't want to type all those words up! i swear, this freaks me out! ah well, good job, even if you C&Ped!

lambchopsil - November 29, 2005 03:39 AM (GMT)
Zap, you went a little overboard...ok, if anyone has some words they're aren't sure about, post in this thread.

AsunaNegi - November 29, 2005 04:38 AM (GMT)
Theres a few other "mercy" words, like alot and a lot. alot isnt a word, and there are more out there. my english teacher has a list, ill ask him for it ^.^

Senshi (Discontinued) - November 29, 2005 06:57 AM (GMT)
Hmm, I had an argument about Zoology with someone once. They kept insisting it was "Zooology".

Paracelsus - November 29, 2005 10:27 AM (GMT)
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Hmm, I had an argument about Zoology with someone once. They kept insisting it was "Zooology"



HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


Wherever you'll look for the word ZOOOLOGY, you'll find ZOOLOGY anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooology

look at the link and then at the page content.

ps those guys with whom you had the argument....give them some grass =/

Shinobi_Janin - November 30, 2005 02:58 AM (GMT)
When do you use too in a sentence?

Zap Electro - November 30, 2005 04:57 AM (GMT)
While normally it's not a good idea to ask about different grammar in a thread designed for one lesson, I'll answer the "too" question:

Use "too" when you mean something additional, as if someone else or something else did the same thing already.

Example:
I went to the mall.
She went to the mall too.


Paracelsus - December 1, 2005 10:06 AM (GMT)
Another commonly mispelled word (name? who carez <.<) :


P.A.R.A.C.E.L.S.I.U.S. <.<

It's PARACELSIUS, not ParCcelsius, ParacelCius or ParaCLEsius <.<

It's true that the C has to be pronounced "si:", but that's not a good reason to replace the S with the C <.<;

Btw Paracelsius is GERMAN <.<, while the english form is ParacelSUS >.> (I won't assume any form of responsibility when during THE philosophy interrogation you'll say ParacelsIus <.<)




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