No, because the plural of person is not peoples.
Grate spelling mistakes of our time
Nov 06, 2012
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Statuary rites, shurely?
They even spell it aluminum
The one I enjoy is 'burglarize'
umlaut but it just looks so bloody ignorant. Like a childs spelling mistake.
Its a public sector job that consists of polishing your fingernails..
Isn't there a Usenet law about this? :-/
By Our Lady?
It's insure/ensure that get me. They spell them both with an I, as far as I can tell. I think there's a difference between ensuring my car works, and insuring it.
Andy
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The Shermans don't do irony.
Actually, an offer could be 'complimentary' or 'complementary'...both make sense.
Exactly. But, to quote Harry Enfield, "It's peeps' ability..." would be OK.
Or writes, as in copywrite.
Others:
break - brake were - where
Then, of course, there's "envision" instead of "envisage"...
a) They apply ugglification to it and so use a z rather than an s.
b) They turn my house into a burglar.
I suppose we should be grateful they don't spell it 'burgular'.
No: statutory is correct. Satuary is where there are a lot of statues..
as in last rights :-)
Wierd- weird
The one that seems to get every one is the collective plural.
"The Hampshire police force are investigating...."
No, envisioning is envisaging with peruvian marching powder.
Burghular
The death of people rather than the deaths. (Is that a collective singular?)
Whoosh.
Saying "bought" for "brought" is now so common that it's unusual to hear "brought"!
I heard that the Americans agreed to spell Aluminium correctly if we would change our spelling of Sulphur. It's probably an urban myth though.
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