Misspelled Numbers, Months, and Days

Yes, these are elementary spelling words, but cruise the web and you will see them misspelled all over the place.

NUMBERS

forty the error is to try to make it match four
ninety the mistake is leaving out the e

MONTHS

February the error is in omitting the first r

DAYS

Wednesday the error is in omitting the first d

NOTE: This peculiar spelling incorporates an old noun possessive. The day of the week was named for the god Woden. Before English started using apostrophe s to indicate the possessive of a noun, it used a genitive ending -es. Wednesday is literally Woden’s Day. Somewhere along the way the o in Woden became an e.

Speaking of days and months, another frequently misspelled word in this category is calendar. The error is writing er for ar.

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4 Responses to “Misspelled Numbers, Months, and Days”

Brad K. on August 10th, 2007 4:58 pm

I get confused occasionally with nineteen (missing e again).

I also tend to reverse the dn in Wednesday (Wendsday).

Then there is the first r in February.

Thanks!
Jeremy Dalton on August 11th, 2007 3:00 pm

‘Halloween’ (plethora of errors available) and ‘tattoo’ (’tatoo’ - wrong) are nasty ones as well.

Also the suffix -or in words such as doctor and visitor are sometimes misspelt (which itself is sometimes ‘mispelt’) with the -er suffix as in ‘visiter’.
Jeremy Dalton on August 11th, 2007 3:02 pm

Oops, just realised we were limited to Numbers, Months, and Days.

Ah, well, there’s the start of an idea for a ‘commonly misspelt words’ article.
LeaAnn Johnson on August 11th, 2007 5:18 pm

I get confused a lot this sgght really helps me.