TTF's most commonly misspelled words

[Anamatar IV]

Wouldnt it be fun to make a thread of words that you find frequently misspelled on TTF? Of course not counting missing apostraphes...:rolleyes: ;)

alright I have seen alot (it should be 'all right') Of course alright is used but it is very uncommon...it has a place in the dictionary but that definition gives a paragraph long summay of why it isnt and is used.:rolleyes: hehe

[Talierin]

a lot (it's TWO words, not one!)
Maiar
it's and its... it's is the contraction of it is, its is used like "The dog lost its ball"

[HLGStrider]

apostraphes

Let's add that word to the list...

Seriously, that might be the pot calling the kettle black, just ask Lantarion about me and Isildur... Iseldir... Isulder...

or Pippin... Pippen...

Or poor Ancalagon... Agaolagn... ACojlaf... AOFHAKLFHLA... BLAH!

And Wonks "Thwacked" me for spelling Definately instead of Definitely...

I'm just careless... that's all.

[Éomond]

I can't think of any misspelled words right now. But I have alot. I also think people tpye too fast that they misspell words.

[Thorin]

"charachter" instead of character. Poor Talimon still can't get it straight...:D

[Tar-Ancalime]

In a better time, quite long ago, it was ciryaher....in fact i still hate to spell his name....so i call him ciry!

[ltas]

Originally posted by Éomond
I can't think of any misspelled words right now. But I have alot. I also think people tpye too fast that they misspell words.
I tpye too fast too ;) Hehe, I love this thread.

[Talierin]

Originally posted by Tar-Ancalime
In a better time, quite long ago, it was ciryaher....in fact i still hate to spell his name....so i call him ciry!


hehehehe, you should try spelling ciryaher when you're too used to calling him by his real name! :eek:

[Tar-Ancalime]

thats even worse: remember when reoko called him Mr. Unspellable...

[Beorn]

Originally posted by Talierin
hehehehe, you should try spelling ciryaher when you're too used to calling him by his real name! :eek:

And have you ever had trouble spelling Hyarmendacil?

[Ciryaher]

And I know how to spell all of your names! Is Ciryaher Penngristion Hyarmendacil such a hard name to spell? Come on, people... ;)

Personally, I find it harder than the dickens to spell Ainuindale...

[Aerin]

I don't have trouble spelling names like that, but what I do have trouble with is remembering to call my bestest (and yes, that is too a word!) friends by their internet names on TTF.

The trouble we had at the Rennaisance Fair last summer... :eek: I didn't know which name I should use when talking to my friends! And to think, there's one person, whom I know in real life, who still calls me Aerin... :rolleyes:

[Asha'man]

The nerve!

Ash

[Aerin]

At least you're willing to admit it. ;)

[HLGStrider]

Add my name
I have been constantly referred to as HGLStrider... MY NAME IS SOOO EASY!

[Tar-Ancalime]

well, I'm not sure Tar is considered unspellable. But some have called me Tal ( a personal pet peeve), or Rar (also highly annoying).

[Wonko The Sane]

British spelled Brittish
Scotland spelled Scottland
Definitely spelled definately

[Tar-Ancalime]

Of course you'd say that:rolleyes: :p !Hahaha!

[FoolOfATook]

After spending a few years editing a high school newspaper, and the three years since then studying English as my major, I notice spelling and grammar mistakes almost everywhere I go. I think the most offensive one, given our context, that I see in the forum semi-regularily is the renaming of our favorite philologist "Tolkein".

[HLGStrider]

That's even worse than the way I spell Isildur... Iseldir... Isuldir...

[Rangerdave]

Originally posted by HLGStrider
Add my name
I have been constantly referred to as HGLStrider... MY NAME IS SOOO EASY!

Thats what I love about my username, easy to say and easy to spell.

In fact, I don't think I have ever seen my name incorrectly spelled since I've been here.

Thanks

DangerRave

[Wonko The Sane]

Hehe. DangerRave.

I hate it when people misspell Snags "Snogs"...oh wait...I'm the only one that does that. ;)

[Tar-Ancalime]

hahahahahahahahahhahahahah....nasty wonks

[Wonko The Sane]

Another one I hate but can't seem to stop doing:

Snog-a. ;)

Hehe.

[munchkin]

I spel sooooo mnay of thoes rong!!!!!

[Wonko The Sane]

For a second I thought you were serious with all those words spelled wrong...
Silly munchkin.

[Bethelarien]

My name. Oh, gosh. How hard is it to spell Bethelarien? It's not Bethelaran, Bethalirien, Bethelarean. Beth-el-ar-i-en. Bethelarien. Good grief.

Silmarillion is a big one, too.

[Wonko The Sane]

That's why I call it the Silly-marillion

[ILLOTRTM]

Yeah, I used to shpell 'character' wrong ALL the time! No matter how many times I spelled it I ALWAYS had it wrong! Then I wrote it on the back of my hand so whenever I went to type it I just looked down. :D Now I never have to cheat to spell it right!.... most of the time....

[munchkin]

figures with you...
nice one, Wonks!
Ok, I have a question. Is noone a word, or am I just crazy?!?!?!?!?!

[Talierin]

noone isn't a word, no one is the correct form.

[Wonko The Sane]

I think it's a word...but like this:
No one...

noone just looks funny.

[FoolOfATook]

Noone- it's what Chaucer called the time after 11:59 AM. ;)

[munchkin]

oh well, I'll still use it anyway. it looks cool too. Noone.

[Aulë]

As Elgee has already stated- the Pippin/Pippen typo
It's amazing how many people have called me Pippen_Took
Even the most Tolkien obsessed people have done this typo.
*looks at Wonks*;)
Such a simple word....

[munchkin]

And people seem to spell my gender, "girl" all the time!

[Wonko The Sane]

I didn't think you were a girl, Munchkin.

And Pip, if I spelled your name wrong it wasn't cos I don't know how to spell Pippin, and it wasn't a typo.

It was me being drunk and stupid...or my head escaping...or something.

Cos it drives me MAD when people spell it Pippen. ;)

[munchkin]

Yay! Someone who spells my gender right other than YayGollum!

[gilgalad]

Noone is absolutely a word.

[munchkin]

THANK YOU for aggreing with me, gilgalad!

[gilgalad]

I always support people in the right.

[gilgalad]

And i just spotted another mistake: You spelled agreeing wrong Munchkin

[ILLOTRTM]

Awwww, gilgalad beat me to it! I was just about to point out the mistake. Darn! :p Oh well, I must be off in search of more hideous spelling mistakes! Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!........
I saw those evil looks, yeah that's right, I'm talking to YOU! :D :rolleyes:

[munchkin]

hahahahaha, see, I can't spell that well...its a wonder that I made the school spelling bee last year.....heres another word that I can't spell: sience! And no, its not science! its supposed to be sence, only in another form. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SPELL IT!!!

[FoolOfATook]

Awwww, gilgalad beat me to it! I was just about to point out the mistake. Darn! Oh well, I must be off in search of more hideous spelling mistakes! Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!........

Wow, you really sound like my English 219 teacher. Dr.Warren, is that you? ;)

[munchkin]

i don't think it is...actuly, i KNOW it isn't Dr. Warren

[Anamatar IV]

actually not actuly:p

Another thing is....how can people NOT spell Anamatar correctly? It's so fun when you DO type it correctly....but I am not Anamtar, Amanatar, Anatar, or Anameter, Elgee;)

[HLGStrider]

he he...

I still think you should be Anameter... You'd get quarters that way... Ana-parking-meter... he he...

I actually know how to spell your name now and just do it wrong intentionally from time to time.

Elgee

[Wonko The Sane]

I like to spell it Ana-MEAN-tar. ;)
Just kidding!

But gilgalad, noone is not a word. Not to mean "no one" at least.

I don't know. In other languages it may be one! ;)

Check the dictionary.

[Aulë]

*looks in dictionary*

Nope- "noone" isn't a word

[omnipotent_elf]

*hey give me that*
looks through
well i'll be
technocracy really is a word.....
but ther is no noone :)

[ILLOTRTM]

There, not ther. Ehahahahaha! Yes! I cought one of you!!! (shhhh, I KNOW it was just a typo! Pipe down!) Hhehehehehahahahahahahahaha! Take that, world! Hehahahahahaha!... ok. :D Anyways, I notice that one mistake a lot of people make is that they put there spacers in the wrong placers. :p Like if they were sayin "with the" they put wit hthe. Not exactly a spelling mistae, but it does happen pretty often....

[Anamatar IV]

Originally posted by Wonko The Sane
I like to spell it Ana-MEAN-tar. ;)
Just kidding!



hmmm...did you happen to see Nom's Ana-mean-tar, Wonks?;)

hmm how about confusing there their and they're

[Wonko The Sane]

Originally posted by ILLOTRTM
There, not ther. Ehahahahaha! Yes! I cought one of you!!! (shhhh, I KNOW it was just a typo! Pipe down!) Hhehehehehahahahahahahahaha! Take that, world! Hehahahahahaha!... ok. :D Anyways, I notice that one mistake a lot of people make is that they put there spacers in the wrong placers. :p Like if they were sayin "with the" they put wit hthe. Not exactly a spelling mistae, but it does happen pretty often....

You spelled "caught" as "cought" and "mistake" as "mistae"

*decides to play the spelling game*

Anamatar, no...I didn't see Nom's Ana-mean-tar. :( Did somebody already have my joke? *sigh*

[munchkin]

i guess so...

[Wonko The Sane]

That's not really cool, is it? :(

[Rangerdave]

Originally posted by Pippin_Took
*looks in dictionary*

Nope- "noone" isn't a word

Gee, and I thought Noone was a text based representation of Groundskeeper Willie saying None

:p
RD

[Mablung]

No but "hoose" is definatly a Willie phrase.

[Scatha]

A lot of words like thief and friend, always get deformed into theif or freind. I wonder why so many people have difficulty in getting the order between the I and E correct.

[Aulë]

Willie: Now take the hoose..
Nelson: The what, the moose?
Willie: The Hoose, the HOOSE!
Nelson: Oh, you mean like this? *sprays Willie in the face with the hose*

hahahahaha
Ahhh, I love it!:D

[Rangerdave]

Just as a point of interest.

If you cannot find either the proper word or the proper spelling; simply make up your own word.

Just look how many really spiffy words were first used by Shakespeare or Carrol.

Plus, the newest release of the O.E.D. has included the word "Jiggy" and attributes the word to Will Smith.



So make up your new words and maybe you'll get lucky.

RD

But somehow I doubt that my word Nermalesque for sickeningly cute will be accepted.

[Aulë]

Hmmm, maybe my favourite word , Woozlewazzle is destined to be added to teh dictionary too!!

[Wonko The Sane]

I use made up words.
Like merm. :)

Merm can mean a lot of things but mostly it means really good friend...
So to help a friend is Merm-aid. ;)

[Ecthelion]

Me and my friend made up a word, it's kruff. Yes kruff, it means whatever you want it to mean, but you have to be careful how you say kruff or someone might not be thinking your saying what your really saying.

[HLGStrider]

But somehow I doubt that my word Nermalesque for sickeningly cute will be accepted. I suppose that would be a synonym for Elgeeish.

The words I make up normally are simply used to replace stronger words . . .ie, Goosh which I say instead of swearing.

[Elbereth]

Well, in real life I tend to use Scooby Doo slang to express myself. Such as:

"Jinkies....that's strange."

or

"Zoinks! Betcha didn't see that coming."

:D

[Narya]

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but Quenya spelled as Queenya...

[HLGStrider]

If we're talking names, I'd say the most misspelled is "Isildur" which I could spell right if I took the time to, but I prefer doing it wrong because I know it gives Lanty and a few others the heebiejeebies.

[HLGStrider]

As we have added a lot of new misspellers to the board and a lot of new spelling Nazi's I thought I'd bring this up again.

[Hammersmith]

Just to make a quick note; spelling things the American way is not an excuse to spell things wrong (except with "Theater", which looks better that way).

Also, the word dramastic (dramastically, etc) shall from hereon in be acknowledged as a viable word.

Anybody wellcoming newcomers shall be subjected to the harshest criticism imaginable.

If I spell the word occassion wrong, I shall be immediately forgiven.

[e.Blackstar]

I like those rules, Smitty. :D ...but I have two more.

Possessive errors are un-excusable. :D

And Americans shall be allowed to use British slang and spellings. ;) :rolleyes: So there.

[Hammersmith]

Your wrong...I didn't make any possessive errors...

[e.Blackstar]

I wasn't talking about you, Ham, but now that you mention it...

Your

:eek:


:D :p ;)

[Elorendil]

Something tells me he did that on purpose.

What about using double negatives? Those are equally inexcusable, IMHO. Especially "irregardless". That one drives me nuts!

[e.Blackstar]

Something tells me he did that on purpose.

Yeah...I agree.

But the sarcasm in my response is too hard to transfer through typing. ;)

[Hammersmith]

Something tells me he did that on purpose.

What about using double negatives? Those are equally inexcusable, IMHO. Especially "irregardless". That one drives me nuts!

I ain't never didn't not do that. Y'all.

Can we add a special clause for Aracelbriansomethingarwen, or is that too mean and callous? Oh, which reminds me: those using "calloused" for "callous" will be shot on sight.

[AraCelebEarwen]

It's Ara-Celeb-Ear-wen. and if you haven't noticed, my stupid computer never gives me the help I need and don't even think about using the ol' 'spell cheek think'!!! :eek: :mad:

WHY DID I KNOW I'D GET IN HERE!!!! I CAN NOT SPELL! SORRY! NEVER COULD! :mad: :( :o Rai helped and my bro never stops pestering me when he finds one of my posts! I will now be editing anything that I and my bro can find! Thank you! *runs off crying*


:p

[Hammersmith]

It's Ara-Celeb-Ear-wen. and if you haven't noticed, my stupid computer never gives me the help I need and don't even think about using the ol' 'spell cheek think'!!! :eek: :mad:

WHY DID I KNOW I'D GET IN HERE!!!! I CAN NOT SPELL! SORRY! NEVER COULD! :mad: :( :o Rai helped and my bro never stops pestering me when he finds one of my posts! I will now be editing anything that I and my bro can find! Thank you! *runs off crying*


:p
There there. It's not all bad. At least you can spell our names right ;)

[e.Blackstar]

It's Ara-Celeb-Ear-wen. and if you haven't noticed, my stupid computer never gives me the help I need and don't even think about using the ol' 'spell cheek think'!!! :eek: :mad:

WHY DID I KNOW I'D GET IN HERE!!!! I CAN NOT SPELL! SORRY! NEVER COULD! :mad: :( :o Rai helped and my bro never stops pestering me when he finds one of my posts! I will now be editing anything that I and my bro can find! Thank you! *runs off crying*


:p

I love you anyway Ara.

I ain't never didn't not do that. Y'all.
Mmm, I love this forum. And all of you people... :D

[ingolmo]

About eleven months since someone posted in this thread, and almost 3 or 4 months since I did.

I remember when Alatar, (and no offense to you with that), typed 'farter' instead of 'father'.

[Ermundo]

There there. It's not all bad. At least you can spell our names right ;)



That was cold.

[Alcuin]

It's Ara-Celeb-Ear-wen. and if you haven't noticed, my stupid computer never gives me the help I need and don't even think about using the ol' 'spell cheek think'!!! :eek: :mad:

WHY DID I KNOW I'D GET IN HERE!!!! I CAN NOT SPELL! SORRY! NEVER COULD! :mad: :( :o Rai helped and my bro never stops pestering me when he finds one of my posts! I will now be editing anything that I and my bro can find! Thank you! *runs off crying*


:pSpell-checkers are wonderful things. You can add all your Tolkien vocabulary to them. Turn your Spell-checker on, and please come back.

And please don’t edit all your old posts! They would lose their ambience and attraction.