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In a discussion concerning tomatoes, I noticed that Maggy spelt them the same way as I do, however, 'tomatos' is also correct.

This got me thinking about any more words where different spellings are also correct. Does forums and forai count?

Can anyone think of any more?

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Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.

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Yea Ass and Arse ..

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ghoti = fish

'gh' from enough
'o' from women
'ti' from station

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As far I can tell, forai isnt word in any English.

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* Fora.

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Judgment and Judgement

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Stationary and Stationery.

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Licensed and licenced, though I believe the first is the English spelling and the second American.

Re: Tomatoes. Maggy pointed out that tomatos is not a correct spelling. The original site that I used to check said that both were ok, but another says that there is only one spelling. As Maggy is a teacher I think it best to take her advice on this.

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One is "to be still" the other is "materials for writing". :confused:

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Mrs. and Missus

I suppose the former is a contraction of Mistress. Try referring to your wife as such....

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Licence is a noun, license is a verb. to drive you need a licence but the DVLA must license you.The L in DVLA is licensing. Though in America only license is used regardless of context.

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Spelled and spelt

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Gaol and jail. I hate that Jail seemed to be more uniformly used. I love the eccentricities of the English language.

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That is more of an olde English spelling and is not really used any longer.

I noticed that many of the suggested different spellings of words are actually not the same word at all, and people are getting confused with what words and their meanings are. A lot of the time its the American English version.

This one below is slightly different though as both are sort of correct

Spelled and spelt - the American English past tense form is spelled. In other varieties of English, both spelled and spelt are common. So, if you're in the United States, you would probably write it like this: The past tense of the verb “spell” can be spelled in two ways.

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Color and colour

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"z" and "s". Many of the places that one might expect an "s" actually has "z" listed first in the Oxford English Dictionary and they predate the "s" spellings, rather than being an Americanization, per se.

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Curb and Kerb although different meanings

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Lots of those progers, grate and great, bow and bough, have and half, lock and loch, tail and tale, etc, etc, etc, but not the subject of this topic it would appear. :)

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Unfortunately the bugbear that exercises a teacher's annoyance immemorial is their and there.

Another that truly makes me incandescent is lose and loose as neither is pronounced the same but they repeatedly get used in the wrong context. The term looser for loser really is enough to turn me into the Hulk.

Oh and please use a spellchecker whether it is US or UK. You will always be right somewhere in the world.At least you will not be driving me up the wall.;)

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...because I feel like smiling I thought I would share a silly quote that my son sent to cheer me up.

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

Sorry for bending the topic a tad.

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Inflection and inflexion.

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I just wish people knew the difference between lose and loose. Drives me crazy.

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Favorite and favourite

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Another Americanism. They always miss out the u. Harbor and harbour.

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Depends which dictionary you use.

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Of course it does. However my fellow colleagues in the world of UK education tend to stick with the standard UK dictionary in order to secure good examination passes for their students. ;)

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I have a copy of the Collins concise dictionary as my paper has a word puzzle (sun dial) that uses that as its reference and there you see different spellings: One of the most common I've seen is when a word ends in an "e" but has a version ending in "y"

e.g. Ropy and ropey which are both correct and the same meaning.

There, their and they're

Your and you're :mad:

As for apostrophes...:erm:

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Gaol and jail. I use the former.

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The people who lose their loose change.

In other words, if you lost you don't gain an O when you lose.

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Inventer and inventor seem to be spelt differently, but mean the same thing.

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Never used the word inventer before, even my Firefox spell checker says its wrong even if it isnt.

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Loose & lose, there & their . . the ones that annoy me the most.

My wife just cannot, however many times it's explained to her, get 'been' and 'being' correct :)

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Loose & lose are not the same words, atleast not to me.

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Centre & Center

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They are not. One means to lose something, the other something that is not fixed in place or baggy clothing/skin/morals.

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to and too

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Different meanings...

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One's right, the other's wrong as a daft American misspelt it and they won't admit their mistake! . It annoys me most when American spellings slip back into our language; often see defense instead of defence on these forums !

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It's because people don't change the the settings on their OS from american to UK..

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Is one spelling of inventer/inventor correct (in England) and the other incorrect Maggy?

I couldn't find a definitive answer, so it would be interesting to know.

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Flammable and inflammable?

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Aluminium - Aluminum

and the English spelling is the one underlined here as wrong for me :D

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And you have us engineers to blame for (computer) program and (linear) analog. :D

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Program and programme perhaps?

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Programme is a broadcast item. Program is what we code for computers.

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Wales, Scotland and N Ireland too. "Inventer" is not a correct spelling.

https://whichiscorrect.com/inventor-vs-inventer/

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Thank you.

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Cream and creme perhaps?

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Creme is actually french. ;)

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Crème anglaise is custard. :)

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It's not a wrong spelling it's just the way the French refer to custard. ;)

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Roofs and rooves.

Whisky and whiskey.

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What is the person who does the code programming referred to as, programmer or programer?

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I thought those 2 things were different...

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I think that one is the English spelling and the other Irish or Scottish.

Edit: Pretty sure it's Scottish as i've been looking at Scottish single malts- don't ask me which is which though!

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One of those is the American spelling. The other is the proper Scottish or British way to spell.

As for Rooves I've never seen it spelt that way.

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Rooves is a very old fashioned way to spell it.

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My Collins concise says "programmer" and that is how I would spell it.

Two more here: analogue and analog.

The second is how it is used in electronics to distinguish a linear signal from a digital signal: e.g. An analog output of 4 to 20 milliamps.

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must be very very old then. :angel:

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This is where I got the info from:

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...plural-of-roof

Looks as though you could be right as of of these comments claims that it changed in 1755 (though others disagree).

I only realised that there were two possible spellings in use after starting a thread asking if VM still do installs over roofs/rooves :D

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Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, American (bourbon, rye, corn, etc.) whiskey.

Japanese (such as Suntory, Akashi, Nikka, etc.) tend so spell it "whisky" on the labelling, as does Mackmyra, the Swedish Whisky company.

re coder - programmer.

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Me thought Whisky was a protected name for the Scottish product.