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Frequently Misspelled Words on FR (Vanity)
April 11, 2012 | Me

Posted on 04/11/2012 12:22:30 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

For no reason in particular, I thought it would be helpful (or irritating, depending upon your point of view) to post a list of words that are commonly misspelled or improperly used on FreeRepublic.

Feel free to add any of your own.

I realize that this will open me up to greater scrutiny of the orthographic composition of my own future posts, but alas; so be it.

Aid = help vs. Aide=assistant (as in “an aide to Congressman Frank”)

Anointed (NOT “annointed”)

Border (as in the line between U.S. and Mexico) (NOT “boarder” as in the guy who gets a bedroom in your house and dinner for a fee)

Gauge (NOT “gage”)

Huge (NOT “hugh”—yes, I know it’s a running joke, but FReepers still misspell it accidentally.)

Loose = opposite of tight. Most of the time, FReepers mean to type “lose.”

Martial Law (NOT “Marshall Law”)

Tenet (as in “principle”) (NOT “tenant”)

Existence (NOT “existence”)

Existent (NOT “existant”) Remember: “The ‘a’ in existent is nonexistent.”

Poll (as in “survey”) (NOT “pole” as in a stripper's primary accessory)

Principal vs. Principle: Principal = 1) First, or highest in rank; 2) Head guy (or gal) in a school; 3) Main portion of money in finance, e.g. principal of a loan.

Principle = Moral rule

Your vs. You’re:

Your = possessive. "Your mother doesn’t approve of your spelling skills."

You’re = Contraction of “you are” "You’re not likely to pass English."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: braking; hugh; series; spelling
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Thiss thred shore iz helpfill. Eye think ewe four it.


201 posted on 04/12/2012 3:59:56 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Fighting the Left does not mean that we have to adopt all of their tactics.)
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To: warsaw44
You forgot ‘ alot ‘.

That is without a doubt, the very worst of the bunch. I see it everywhere these days. It's like a communicable disease.

202 posted on 04/13/2012 12:23:51 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

‘jive’ vs. jibe.


203 posted on 04/13/2012 12:26:23 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: mrs. a; rightwingintelligentsia

First off, kudos to having a thread on this topic and not going after an individual’s post. I have come to HATE frikkin’ grammar Nazis. I wonder how long this early poster (2002) would have hung around if the grammar (and punctuation) Nazis had ripped into him?

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To: f.Christian

i was one too. i still pretty much have my same small ‘L’ libertarian ideals, but in college the left tapped into that and basically implored me to be paranoid that the religious right was working overtime to take away my rights. all the while campus speeh codes and political correctness were being instituted around me in the name of diversity and multiculturalism. when i graduated in 1991, i had an epiphany, a conversion of sorts, as i watched in horror the clarence thomas hearings. ‘those guys are on my side?’ i thought as i watched the dems attempt to assassinate a good man. since then my libertarian instincts have been buffered by an attraction to the moral clarity of the conservative movement. happily just voted for bill simon last tuesday here in california.

18 posted on Saturday, March 09, 2002 3:37:27 PM by andrew

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andrew - as in Andrew Breibart, RIP


204 posted on 04/13/2012 12:59:03 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Grams A
This is Obama’s problem - he thinks we’re saying reign when we are saying rein...

Well, he reigns in spending, all right.

205 posted on 04/14/2012 12:35:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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