Grate spelling mistakes of our time

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, because the plural of person is not peoples.

[polygonum]

Statuary rites, shurely?

[The Natural Philosopher]

They even spell it aluminum

The one I enjoy is 'burglarize'

[The Natural Philosopher]

umlaut but it just looks so bloody ignorant. Like a childs spelling mistake.

Its a public sector job that consists of polishing your fingernails..

[John Williamson]

Isn't there a Usenet law about this? :-/

[Andy Champ]

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

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Huge escribió:

The Shermans don't do irony.

[Bob Eager]

Actually, an offer could be 'complimentary' or 'complementary'...both make sense.

[Bob Eager]

Exactly. But, to quote Harry Enfield, "It's peeps' ability..." would be OK.

[Dave Liquorice]

Or writes, as in copywrite.

Others:

break - brake were - where

[Frank Erskine]

Then, of course, there's "envision" instead of "envisage"...

[Tim Streater]

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'.

[The Natural Philosopher]

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...."

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, envisioning is envisaging with peruvian marching powder.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Burghular

[polygonum]

The death of people rather than the deaths. (Is that a collective singular?)

[Bob Eager]

Whoosh.

[Bob Martin]

Saying "bought" for "brought" is now so common that it's unusual to hear "brought"!

[Mark]

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.

[Mark]