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RichardCoulter 14-10-2018 16:30

Different (correct) ways of spelling the same words.
 
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?

Taf 14-10-2018 17:39

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Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.

djfunkdup 14-10-2018 20:51

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Yea Ass and Arse ..

idi banashapan 14-10-2018 21:43

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ghoti = fish

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

Paul 14-10-2018 22:48

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 35966506)
Beware of spellcheckers swerving you towards American English.

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

RichardCoulter 15-10-2018 01:37

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul M (Post 35966541)
As far I can tell, forai isnt word in any English.

* Fora.

Tinky 15-10-2018 09:34

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Judgment and Judgement

denphone 15-10-2018 09:39

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Stationary and Stationery.

RichardCoulter 15-10-2018 18:07

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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.

Taf 15-10-2018 18:15

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Quote:

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35966558)
Stationary and Stationery.

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

---------- Post added at 17:15 ---------- Previous post was at 17:13 ----------

Mrs. and Missus

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

multiskilled 16-10-2018 00:22

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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.

Tinky 16-10-2018 12:25

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Spelled and spelt

joglynne 16-10-2018 13:46

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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.

Stephen 16-10-2018 15:26

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Quote:

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35966707)
Gaol and jail. I hate that Jail seemed to be more uniformly used. I love the eccentricities of the English language.

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.

Tinky 17-10-2018 08:36

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Color and colour


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