Comments on: Words Often Misspelled Because of Double Letters

By: gay

gay — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:44:30 +0000

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By: Redgie A. Bautista

Redgie A. Bautista — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:14 +0000

Another word is “queue/que-ue”.

Having them (words) change in the spelling mostly comes when using it on a sentence like turning it into a past-tense.

By: Robyn Broyles

Robyn Broyles — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:17:16 +0000

Don’t forget “vacuum,” which I often see spelled “vaccuum” or even “vaccum.” I never understood why the “uu” spelling was hard to remember, as this is the only common word with double u’s (as opposed to double-u, w).

By: Daniel J.

Daniel J. — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:57:58 +0000

Nisus, a word processing programme for Mac, does include a lot of languages, including British, Australian and U.S. English. I love it!

By: Andy Knoedler

Andy Knoedler — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:34:03 +0000

Then there’s desiccate, which is often misspelt/misspelled.

And broccoli that always gives me fits when I make a shopping list (yes, I could stop eating it, I suppose).

Here there are several words already discussed in this forum: http://www.askoxford.com/bette.....g/?view=uk

Finally, instalment (UK) is one word that has a single letter where the US version has two.