AUGUST

2019

COMMONLYMISPELLED
MISSPELLED
WORDS
MIDTERM EXAM

PRESENTATION BY: PATRICIA ISOBEL BORJA

 PRACTICE TEST
ONLY ONE IS SPELLED CORRECTLY, CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD.
1.) drunkeness - drunkenness
amatuer - amateur
liaison
alegiance - allegiance

2.) hygiene
dumbell - dumbbell
occurence - occurrence
flourescent - fluorescent

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 COMMON CAUSES OF
MISSPELLINGS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonly_misspelled_English_words

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 Mispronunciation
 is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as
"incorrect or inaccurate pronunciation".
Examples:
1.) Flautist [FLOU-tist]
What:  A person who plays the flute.
2.) GIF [jiff]
What: A computer graphic image; an acronym for Graphics
Interchange Format.
3.) Mischievous [MIS-chuh-vus]
What: Wanting to or causing trouble, most often in a playful way.
4.) Epitome [ep-i-tummy
What: An example that represents or expresses something very well.
5.) Cocoa [koh-koh]
What: A brown powder made from roasted cocoa beans that is used
to give a chocolate flavor to foods.
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 TYPING ERRORS
• Some spelling errors are introduced because the typing of
certain people is not perfect, such as letters are doubled, or
more frequently double letters tripled, such as "betwween"
and "betweeen"
• letters are singled, such as "betwen"
• keys are transposed, so "because" becomes "becuase". 
• Some of the errors listed may be due to mistyping rather than
ignorance, for example "solider" for "soldier".
• These misspellings rarely happen in handwritten text.

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 Personal Names
Personal names and surnames may be pronounced
like a standard English word, but with different
spelling:
• "balance" and "John Ballance"
• "war" and "Evelyn Waugh";
• "marshal“ and "George Marshall".
• Personal names do, of course, generally
start with a capital letter.

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 Homophones
Each of two or more words having the
same pronunciation but different
meanings, origins, or spelling.

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 Oronym (Homophone) Poetry

There is a well-known poem called Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer 

(I Have a Spelling Checker) that written almost entirely
with homophones. It could be considered an oronym poem:

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea
Oronyms It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Oronyms are normally strings of words (phrases) Weather eye am wrong oar write
such as iced ink and I stink. It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
•The good can decay many ways. It nose bee fore two long
The good candy came anyways. And eye can put the error rite
  Its rarely ever wrong.
• The stuffy nose can lead to problems. Eye have run this poem threw it
The stuff he knows can lead to problems. I am shore your pleased two no
  Its letter perfect in it's weigh
• Some others I've seen. My chequer tolled me sew.
Some mothers I've seen                         (Sauce unknown)

FOREIGN
WRITERS
A misspelling in English might be
made by someone used to a different
spelling in another language
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For example: "address" is translated "adresse" in French
and German.
Many Spanish words are similar or identical to English
words, but with an "n" inserted, or replacing an "m",
leading to errors: "inmigrant" from "inmigrante",
"cementery" from "cementerio", "confortable" instead of
"comfortable".
The English word 'loose' reasonably looks like it should be
pronounced as 'lose' to Germans, as in German the lone 's'
often has the sound of an English 'z', and a lone 'o' in
English very seldom has the 'oo' sound
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 APOSTROPHES
A mark ‘ used to indicate the omission of
letters or figures.
• There can be confusion over a plural possessive form.
• If the singular is "book's title" and the plural "books' titles",
the latter can appear as "book's", or even "books's".
• The plural can be written with an erroneous apostrophe ("
grocer's apostrophe" in Britain): "apple's and pear's".

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 COMPARISON OF:

IT’S & ITS

WHEN TO USE ITS & IT’S?

It's is short for it is or it has.
For example:
•It's amazing. (It is amazing.)
•It's got to be a joke. 
(It has got to be a joke.)
Its is the possessive form of it.
For example:
• I can see its eyes. (referring to a
cat for example)
•"That's not its box.“ (when
referring to a pair of shoes)

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 COMPARISON OF:

THEIR,THEY’RE & THERE

WHEN TO USE THEIR, THEY’RE & THERE.

THEI THEY’R THERE

isR
the possessive case of the
pronoun they, as in “They
left their cell phones at
home.” Their is generally
plural, but it is increasingly
accepted in place of the
singular his or her after an
with words
such as someone:
“Someone left their book
on the table.”
E
is a contraction of the • is an adverb that means “in
words they and are, as in
“They’re mastering the
differences between three
homophones!”
or at that place,” as in “She
is there now.” In this
sense, there is essentially the
opposite of here. There is
also used as a pronoun
introducing a sentence or
clause, as in “There is still
hope.”

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 ELISION
 Elision can lead to misspelling: "doesn't", where the apostrophe represents the elided "o", can be
misspelled "does'nt".
Word IPA before elision IPA after elision
comfortable /ˈkʌmfərtəbəl/ /ˈkʌmftərbəl/ (comf’table)

/ˈlæbərəˌtɔːri/ /ˈlæbrətɔːri/ (American English)

laboratory
/ləˈbɒrəˌtɔːri/ /ləˈbɒrətri/ (British English)

/ˈtɛmpərtʃər/, /ˈtɛmprətʃər/, sometimes /ˈ
temperature /ˈtɛmpərətʃər/
tɛmpətʃər/

family /ˈfæmɪli/ /ˈfæmli/ fam’ly

vegetable /ˈvɛdʒətəbəl/ /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ veg’table
fifth /ˈfɪfθ/ /ˈfɪθ/
him /hɪm/ /ɪm/
going to /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ tuː/ /ɡənə/ (gonna)
it is, it has /ɪt ˈɪz/, /ɪt ˈhæz/ /ɪts/ (it's)
I have /aɪ ˈhæv/ /aɪv/ (I've)
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is not /ɪzˈnɒt/
13 /ˈɪzənt/ (isn't)
TIPS IN IMPROVING YOUR ENGLISH
SPELLING:
BY YOUR TRULY

• Read books.
• Watch movies with subtitles.
• Download dictionary in your phone.
• Activate the auto-correction in your phone’s keyboard.

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
PATRICIA ISOBEL BORJA