People can be too clever to spell .

Spelling mistakes are not always down to ignorance of the English language,
they are sometimes made because people know too much.


Researchers at Collins Dictionaries found that the most commonly
misspelt word was supersede - being wrong on one in ten occasions. The
problem arises because people use their knowledge of the words that
have a phonetically similar ending, like intercede, precede or cede,
from the Latin cedere - to yield. They then wrongly assume that
supersede is spelt with a 'c'.The less scholarly can still slip
up if they base their spelling on words that are similar. Many are
tempted to spell liquefy as liquify, simply because they know the
correct spelling of liquid or inoculate with a double 'n' because they
know how to spell innocuous.Another common reason for
misspelling is where words are spelt differently from their
pronunciation. The top five misspelt words in this category are
conscience, indict, foreign, mortgage and phlegm. Researchers
at Collins compiled their list of misspelt words by using a software
program designed to pick up spelling mistakes to go through thousands
of documents on the internet, including published books, articles and
blogs.Ian Brookes, the managing editor of dictionaries at
Collins, said: "The real spelling problems occur when people have
learnt the rules or have a bit of knowledge, but then make mistakes in
how they apply this."Earlier this month a university lecturer
drew up a list of commonly misspelt words that he thought should be
included as "variant spellings". Dr Ken Smith from Buckingham
University said misspelt words such as 'thier', 'arguement', 'ignor'
and 'speach' should also be accepted alternatives to current spellings.



How is your spelling ,mine is terrible ?

Tell you what Digger, i'm absolutely fascinated by this anomaly......

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.


Think the above paragraph is amazing as i read it perfect the fiirst time

preahps tehre is hpoe for us drkuns?????? lol!!

They are even misspelling code!!! We might be able to read it, but the computers dont seem to like it though!!! (this ones posted as a laugh :) )

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Coyprgiht 2003 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
#
# Premssioin to use, cpoy, mdoify, drusbiitte, and slel this stafowre and its
# docneimuatton for any prsopue is hrbeey ganrted wuihott fee, prveodid taht
# the avobe cprgyioht noicte appaer in all coipes and that both taht
# cohgrypit noitce and tihs premssioin noitce aeppar in suppriotng
# dcoumetioantn.  No rpeersneatiotns are made about the siuatbliity of tihs
# srofawte for any puorpse.  It is provedid "as is" wiuotht exerpss or
# ilmpied waanrrty.
#
# Cretaed: 13-Sep-2003.
# Fix0red: 15-Sep-2003.

require 5;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

my $porgnmae = $0; $porgnmae =~ s@.*/@@g;
my $vresoin = q{ $Revision: 1.4 $ }; $vresoin =~ s/^[^0-9]+([0-9.]+).*$/$1/;

sub scrmable {
  while (<>) {

    # Tihs smplier rgexep is porablby all taht is nedeed, and the odelr
    # one ddin't work all the time anaywy.  Cehck tihs out:
    #
    # setenv LANG en_US
    # echo -n "foo.bar" | \
    #  perl -e '$_ = <>; print join (" | ", split (/([^\w]+)/)) . "\n";'
    #    =>  "foo | . | bar"
    #
    # setenv LANG en_US.utf8
    # echo -n "foo.bar" | \
    #  perl -e '$_ = <>; print join (" | ", split (/([^\w]+)/)) . "\n";'
    #    =>  "foo.bar"
    #
    # perl-5.8.0-88, Red Hat 9

    foreach (split (/(\w+)/)) {
#  foreach (split (/([^[:alnum:]]*[\s[:punct:]]+)/)) {    # fuck uincode

      if (m/\w/) {
        my @w = split (//);
        my $A = shift @w;
        my $Z = pop @w;
        print $A;
        if (defined ($Z)) {
          my $i = $#w+1;
          while ($i--) {
            my $j = int rand ($i+1);
            @w[$i,$j] = @w[$j,$i];
          }
          foreach (@w) {
            print $_;
          }
          print $Z;
        }
      } else {
        #print "]";
        print "$_";
        #print "[";
      }
    }
  }
}

sub usgae {
  print STDERR "usage: $porgnmae < text > scrbameld-txet\n";
  exit 1;
}

sub mian {
  usgae if ($#ARGV != -1);
  scrmable();
}

mian;
exit 0;