What does the following mean?
diety deity (error promulgated by an early Unix spell-checker)
-- Menchi 08:14, Aug 27, 2003 (UTC)
Many of the pronunciations given are US English rather than international or British English. I think this should be made clearer, with alternate pronunciations given where necessary. Otherwise it's just another example of Us cultural imperialism GRAHAMUK 05:50, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
That sounds fair, but I speak American English and would probably screw something up. Cameron Nedland 02:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you think of any examples other than "coupe"? (BTW, I never knew the word was actually "coupé" in French. How fascinating!) Wiwaxia 05:53, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Do "lie" and "lie" really belong on here? No one can really confuse them when writing, since they're spelt the exact same way. Wiwaxia 22:32, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Since "new" doesn't exactly rhyme with "too" in some major dialects, I'm changing it for clarity.-- Goododa 07:35, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I'm new here. To my shame, I even deleted some text, but plead stupidity. I'm one of the future contributors that you're trying to enlist.
My question is: WHO contributed the almost certainly erroneous cite for the term "hoodlum"? It is untrue. If anyone can give me a cite for the 'Muldoon/hoodlum' story cited, I, and many others will be grateful.
SC
Question: how is confectionary misspelled in the image?
I suggest deleting the alleged "derived misspelling" of nuclear, here given as "nucular" and probably intended as a subtle dig at our dear absent-minded president. It is, purportedly, a "jocular orthographisation of metathetical American pronunciation." Well yes, in so many words. But it's hardly one of the better examples of derived misspelling. -- Entangledphotons 15:40, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
i'd love to see a mention of the irony of the word misspelling often being mispelled. Themindset 08:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
There are also words that are confused based on similar meanings, but which don't sound the same (such as adoptive and adopted, the former referring to the child, and the latter referring to the parent). Can words like this be included on the confused words list?-- Jcvamp 16:12, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
If your typing is not so good, do you mix the words Form and From, You and Your?
Could either of the words in the obove pairs be spelled differently to reduce the liklihood of making a mistake? Tabletop 05:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Often mistaken for one another. - 68.114.249.92 17:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't see any explanation given in this talk page for why this article was tagged as POV dispute. I am thus removing the tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eve Teschlemacher ( talk • contribs) 21:12, 31 August 2007 (UTC)