Comments on: 10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers

By: Ken Farmer

Ken Farmer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:11:00 +0000

Other mistakes that should have been included are:
airplain/airplane bore/boar break/brake breath/breathe chick/chic cloths/clothes condum/condom dam/damn fill/feel new/knew presents/presence right/rite/write straight/strait Their/there/they’re through/threw waste/waist way/weigh were/where witch/which your/you’re

By: rososusilo

rososusilo — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:20:01 +0000

I do not know, before you start talking, I usually tell my native. I’m not english .so he understand if there is a lot of mistakes.

By: David Dyson

David Dyson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:04:53 +0000

“Its/It’s” is the one that I always get confused. This is the problem with English – it’s a funny language.

By: Gordon Greenall

Gordon Greenall — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:44:44 +0000

Bought and brought. This one started in lazy speech and has migrated into text because people no longer know the difference and ‘spellchecker’ software does not pick up the mistake.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.

By: Anette Hultman

Anette Hultman — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:16:25 +0000

Hi, thank you for a good post. I am from sweden and sometimes I do miss spell my writing. Great help. /Anette

By: Rahman @ Online Marketing Blog

Rahman @ Online Marketing Blog — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:45:16 +0000

As a non-native speaker of the English language, sometimes I’m amazed by the type and level of mistakes made on the blogosphere. However, it’s always great to read such posts that are good reminders for us not to solely depend on the spell checking applications.

Rahman Mehraby
Site Booster Blog

By: jeff cavaliere

jeff cavaliere — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:01:31 +0000

I remember social bookmarking a post of mine, and it was misspelled. For some reason, I could not edit and save. I felt so bad, I closed that account down and opened a new one. I have to have misspelled words anywhere

By: Article writing and submission service

Article writing and submission service — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:15:24 +0000

Simply wonderful Darren…no doubt, these are common mistakes done by many people…though every one of us knows these mistakes but never thought of using in our blog posts…

By: eileen

eileen — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:45:42 +0000

Dude, these aren’t spelling mistakes, they’re usage mistakes. That said, I AGREE COMPLETELY. Grammar nerds FTW.

By: emma

emma — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:57:15 +0000

Great post – but I think THEIR and THERE and THEY’RE should definitely be in the top 10… it gets my goat to see so many people using there for their.

Agree with others about lose and loose – I have to think about that one each time!

Also there is a lack of understanding of the use of THEM and THOSE. I hear it a lot in everyday speach, especially by colloquial English speakers and it grates!

Oh and finally, those who forget to change the Y into an I when adding a suffix like -ness: lazyness = laziness, crazy = craziness.

English is one of the harder languages because of it’s myriad rules, so the mistakes on sees are quite understandable, but not insurmountable.

Thanks again for a great post.

Have fun x

By: marie

marie — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:13:58 +0000

You missed “lose” and “loose.” Many of my students use “loose” for “lose.” I’m not sure where that came from.

By: Dan the man

Dan the man — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:07:31 +0000

accept and except were always my main problems Ill have to avoid them in my blog post anyway… great post man

By: Frank Adams

Frank Adams — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:38:12 +0000

A lot of bloggers do make spelling mistakes on their post most because of absence of checking their work. They tend to do the typing on the site itself and not on word in which there is a spell check while you type the words. Good words to ponder and hopefully these mistakes can be avoided.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:45:52 +0000

Drop that tomatoe from the list!LOL

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:44:30 +0000

Travelling/traveling ….
Color/Colour
Tomato/Tomatoe.
Meter/Metre
All correct.Just depends whether you’re using English UK or English US.

By: make money

make money — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:56:40 +0000

Great post! How fun to find you over here lol It’s like this: I’ve been reading Problogger for at least a year or more (though I’ve seldom commented) and then I’ve been meeting so plenty of other bloggers, including you, and then all of a sudden I see you here, which is like a different world that I visit from time to time….well it’s hard to describe but it’s icy how the blogosphere works :)
Definitely agree with you on serving the reader–what other point is there? If my posts aren’t useful then I don’t see the point in writing. Also agree on kindness and professionalism–I’ve see a lack thereof here and there and I’m immediately turned off. I wouldn’t socialize with gossipers or mean-spirited folks in my off-line life and don’t care to do it here, either.

By: make money

make money — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:56:11 +0000

Great advice, I am beginning out & I’m part of the BlogFrog/SITS group finishing the 31DBBB – every time I look at my weblog I see some kind of spelling mistake or type, this is something I need to work on. Great to have a refresher on a quantity of the more common mistakes. Thank you.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:28:09 +0000

Your/You’re. I see this one so often it hurts.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:29:36 +0000

Been/Being is another one that springs to mind,

I have been away
you are being unreasonable

Thanks for the share :-)

By: turisuna

turisuna — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:32:52 +0000

Yes I made some of those mistakes. Since I’m not a native English speaker, I need a help of spelling checker and also grammar checker tools lol. Well it makes frustrated sometimes, but in the same time it’s also fun :)