The Probabilist has a list of the ten most misspelled/misused words in blogs. These are the kind of things that your spell checker just can’t catch for you. I wrote a post a good while back asking does spelling matter online? Looking at that post and this one on the Probablist, I believe I’m still guilty of letting spelling mistakes slip through.
One problem I do have however, is that as I learnt British, or The Queens English growing up it doesn’t matter what I write, because some of the words will always appear wrong to somebody!
The reason you should review this list is because a spell checker won’t correct these for you. Make sure that you’ve got foolproof control over them (especially if you tend to write around 3:12 AM like I am now). Extensively misusing them throughout your posts may actually cost you a visitor or two every now and then because some folks do get caught up on these, which means they won’t focus 100 % of their attention on your incredibly valuable content!
1. Your – You’re
As mentioned above, your message might lose impact if you’re not paying attention to this number one word maltreatment. If you find it particularly difficult to separate them from each other, stop using ‘you’re’ altogether and notice how you are starting to improve your spelling.
As a side note: YourDictionary.com has a list of the 100 most often misspelled words in English!
