During my college years, my adviser in the school paper shared a poem to us. It contained the importance of checking one’s spelling of words, and being very critical of one’s written work. It was a beautiful poem, and, although, I cannot recall the exact phrases, the lesson of that piece has stayed with me through the years.
Writing and spelling goes hand in hand. You can’t actually think of producing a coherent material, worthy of being published, if there is no display of a loving sensitivity to language in your work.
But if you had taken the time to do justice to the words you use, then, that would reap great results for you.
But what about those who have a hard time thinking of the correct spelling of some words? What then?
No problem. Here are 35 commonly misspelled words that may help you gather your thoughts and write what you need to write about.
1. across
2. accommodate
3. belief
4. alright
5. assassin
6. business
7. committee
8. conceive
9. conscience
10. continuous
11. desert / dessert
12. etiquette
13. facade
14. fulfillment / fulfill
15. fuschia
16. garage
17. gauge
18. government
19. indicted
20. miscellaneous
21. occasion
22. personnel
23. receipt
24. rendezvous
25. separate
26. profession
27. souvenir
28. tomorrow
29. summon
30. tyranny
31. unconscious
32. virtuous
33. whether / weather
34. withdraw
35. pronunciation
How many times have you found yourself in a particular scenario when you had to think twice about how a word is spelled? Well, there’s no need to worry anymore. Just check the words above, or better yet, check your dictionary before writing a word. Remember that even professional writers rely on the wealth of information contained in the dictionary and thesaurus. Take their example!
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