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A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words - An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.
 
Dan Quayle's Problems with Spelling - Even American vice presidents have problems with spelling English words...including beakon, lousey, Vice President's Office of Competativeness (official letterhead) and the infamous "potatoe". Dan Quayle "quotes" compiled by Mel Walker.
 
DidYouMean? - Directory of common misspelled search terms.
 
Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems - Commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, comma splices and run-ons, fragments, problem modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement, pronoun references, pronoun case (who, whom), capitalization, when to use numbers versus words, symbols, and abbreviations.
 
Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems - Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.
 
Sites to Spell With - from Lifesavers - New Teachers Corner editors share their 10 favorite sites on spelling strategies on the Microsoft Classroom Teaching Network (mctn).
 
Spelling Reform - Educational tools to help students in their difficulties in "traditional" English writing. Bookshop, software, reviews, orders from Mantex.co.uk . Site also reproduces Mark Twain's short article "A plan for improving English language spelling".
 
The Problem of English Spelling - Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links.
 
The River - Goerge - the great mis-spellings page - A humorous look at how the age-old problems of traditional mis-spellings have crept into the internet world even with a bigger force!
 
Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries - An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.
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