SUPERSEDE IS THE MOST OFTEN MISSPELLED WORD

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/08/25/Supersede_most_often_misspelled/UPI-48171219702611/

GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Collins Dictionaries of Britain said its researchers have estimated that the most commonly misspelled word in the English language is "supersede."

The company said the word is misspelled one out of every 10 times it is used because many other words with phonetically similar endings -- such as intercede and precede -- are spelled with the letter "c" instead of "s," The Daily Telegraph reported.

The researchers said they arrived at their conclusions by using a software program that went through thousands of documents available on the Internet, including published books, blogs and news articles.

Collins said other commonly misspelled words -- including conscience, indict, foreign, mortgage and phlegm -- are challenging because they their spelling is different from their phonetic pronunciations.

"The real spelling problems occur when people have (learned) the rules or have a bit of knowledge, but then make mistakes in how they apply this," said Ian Brookes, the managing editor of dictionaries at Collins.

How strangely interesting. It's not one of those words that I just whip out in casual conversation. I can see some of those other words like indict and foreign being used more often than supersede. Oh well.

In other news...there is no news! Greg had his first bloody nose about 20 minutes ago. Really scary for me only because it was just random. He was sitting there picking his nose (and I was trying to get him not to by making fun of him) and then he stopped and got up on the couch. Then he was playing and he turned around and he had blood all over his face. ME, I got up and ran over to him stubbing my toe on a wipe box that was on the ground (remind me to pick that up)...then my pants fell down (I must be losing some weight) and then on top of that, my underwear started to fall down (must be more weight loss). COME ON! All I wanted to do was run and grab kleenex and save my little boy and my pants AND underwear fall down! What the hell did I do to you life?! Try holding a little boy who doesn't want to sit still while trying to pull up your underwear and pants...NOT EASY.

Embarrassing moment is done...I'm going to go to bed and read my books (over and over). Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban was on TV last night and I really wanted to read the book over again because it seems like I can't remember it anymore. I know things are missing, I just need to read it and remember.

Huh... I knew all those other ones but I got supersede wrong... thankfully I never use that. :P

I'm sure that was a terrible situation but it seems very amusing when described...
» randomjunk on 2008-08-25 11:59:31

i can't believe that your pants fell down, then your underwear...haha....

you must of been freaking out with all the blood...i hate bloody noses, not fun at all.
» pyrogrrl12 on 2008-08-26 12:01:16

ooh. but i know how to spell supercede looking at the dic!
» renaye on 2008-08-26 12:04:31

I miss spell conscience all the time though I never heard of supersede.. I'm going to look it up.

I don't watch Harry Pottor movies anymore, they're like, too different from the book to my liking.

Is losing too much weight a good sign?
» Nuttz on 2008-08-26 09:34:36

you've been tagged !
» kevin14 on 2008-08-28 09:36:57

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