Some common spelling mistakes in English...

[Willamena]

"Affect" & "effect" have the same problem.

At least they are similar in meaning. "Except" and "accept" can be antithetical.

 

[Revoltingest]

I remember seeing a sign (those boards protesters hold up) that says "speak are language". I searched for it and couldn't find it.

That sounds like a Poe tactic.

 

[Smart_Guy]

That sounds like a Poe tactic.

Edgar Allan Poe?
(Don't ask. I just happen to know him)
Note: is it correct to say "happen" up there? Or should it be "happened"?

 

[Revoltingest]

Edgar Allan Poe?
(Don't ask. I just happen to know him)
Note: is it correct to say "happen" up there? Or should it be "happened"?

Both words are used, depending upon the desired tense.

 

[Scuba Pete]

 

[oldbadger]

Do you know what roe is?

Rules of engagement?
Return on Equity?
Spawn?
Fish eggs?

 

[oldbadger]

Any of you guys have a problem with farther and further? I don't

I had dreadful trouble with my Father, but never farther or further.

You may use them differently but the Oxford dictionary defines them together, with the same meaning, including the words furthest and farthest.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Rules of engagement?
Return on Equity?
Spawn?
Fish eggs?

Not what oarsmen do to move sheeps on woter?

 

[Smart_Guy]

I had dreadful trouble with my Father, but never farther or further.

You may use them differently but the Oxford dictionary defines them together, with the same meaning, including the words furthest and farthest.

Ha! Oxford dic. knows nothing.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Funny fact:
I confused eight and nine, and Tuesday and Thursday. I count the days on my fingers sometimes when I try to find the latter.

 

[Revoltingest]

Rules of engagement?
Return on Equity?
Spawn?
Fish eggs?

One party in Roe V Wade?

 

[Revoltingest]

I count the days on my fingers sometimes when I try to find the latter.

Here....borrow mine.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Here....borrow mine.

Dat's not a mine!

 

[Revoltingest]

Dat's not a mine!

It's the latter you can't find.

 

[Smart_Guy]

It's the latter you can't find.

I know it's a latter. I'm just wondering why you confuse latters with mines.

 

[oldbadger]

Not what oarsmen do to move sheeps on woter?

Oarsmen do row, that is, oarsmen row boats, but of course some oarsmen also row..... with wives, kids, other folks, etc....

But 'sheeps' is wrong, because the word 'sheep' is both singular and plural.

 

[Smart_Guy]

But 'sheeps' is wrong, because the word 'sheep' is both singular and plural.

Oh... must be my Greek personality.

 

[Scuba Pete]

 

[Scuba Pete]

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Hah! Smoked!