Thread: 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

Originally Posted by tommo

This is one word which should be changed. Wandering is pronounced "wOndering" and Wondering is pronounced more like "wundering" but "a" (wandering) fits as well.

I realised this last year some time and was baffled as to why it would be like that lol.

Wait. Where do people pronounce wandering like wOndering? I and everyone I know and everyone I have ever heard pronounces it like "wahndering". If there is somewhere it is pronounced like "wOndering" then I guess I could understand the misspelling better. I've just never ever heard it said that way.

Edit: Oh wait, you're in Australia. Guess that might explain it. Maybe everyone misspelling it is from Australia or perhaps England.

Maybe everyone misspelling it is from Australia or perhaps England.

Nein.

I've mastered all those spellings (big grammar nazi), although I used to spell "definantly" instead of "definitely". I also had a problem with "seperate" vs "separate" (I remind myself that 'ara' is harder to say thus more separate than 'era').

These days I can get a little stuck on words that normally end in e but then you have to add 'able' at the end, like "likable"... I want to spell it "likeable", because you don't lik something, you like it. If I ever use a word I don't read very often and I'm not sure how to spell it, I just Google it immediately in another tab.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

I used to spell "definantly" instead of "definitely".

Now you mention it, I do remember doing that in grade school.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

I also had a problem with "seperate" vs "separate" (I remind myself that 'ara' is harder to say thus more separate than 'era').

Uh yeah, this one still gets me. I think the problem comes from a serious misconception that they are two different words with two different pronunciations. As in..."don't make me seperate you two" and "many separate parts". I "seperate" things into "separate" pieces. (btw I always want to spell that "pronounciation"...I mean...as with "likable", you pronounce something, you don't pronunce it)

Originally Posted by Photolysis

Nein.

Sorry, I knew that would get me in trouble. I can never keep track of what I'm supposed to call that country. And my boss is British. I think he says England, though.

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Sorry, I knew that would get me in trouble. I can never keep track of what I'm supposed to call that country. And my boss is British. I think he says England, though.

Not that, just I've never encountered anyone who gets wander confused with wonder, and I live in the UK (and I consider myself English, not British incidentally).

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Wait. Where do people pronounce wandering like wOndering? I and everyone I know and everyone I have ever heard pronounces it like "wahndering". If there is somewhere it is pronounced like "wOndering" then I guess I could understand the misspelling better. I've just never ever heard it said that way.

Edit: Oh wait, you're in Australia. Guess that might explain it. Maybe everyone misspelling it is from Australia or perhaps England.

Hm, maybe it is just an Australian thing. But I've never heard anyone say "I'm just going to go for a wahnder over there" or "I wOnder what this is for".
It's always "I'm just going to go for a wOnder over there" or "I wuhnder what this is for".

I'd probably sound like an idiot if I went to Britain lol