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20 MOST MISSPELLED WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

How good of a speller are you? Spelling is definitely a pain for both ESL students and native speakers. English spelling is quite complicate. Some words may have the same sound and very different spelling. Others have letters that have nothing to do with the way they are pronounced. Then there are also silent letters that are required in writing but not in speech. The many foreign words the English language has absorbed contribute to the mayhem. But the language is what it is and it is up to speaker to spell it right or at least to try and find out the correct spelling. Google has made the task much easier.

A survey done in Britain by market research company OnePoll has listed the top 20 misspelled words. Here they are:

1. definitely
2. sacrilegious
3. indict
4. manoeuvre
5. bureaucracy
6. broccoli
7. phlegm
8. prejudice
9. consensus
10.unnecessary
11.supersede
12.questionnaire
13.lieutenant
14.entrepreneur
15.connoisseur
16.inoculate
17.particularly
18.liquify
19.parallel
20.conscience

Take the quiz on the right and see how you do.

SLANG AND SUBCULTURE WORDS WITH A GOOD LAUGH

Can't find that slang word in the dictionary? Want to know what bragplaining, congreenient, intexticated mean? Check out this web-based, collaborative dictionary of slang words and phrases.
The Urban Dictionary was created in 1999 and has over 5 million entries. Words and phrases are added by registered users. They can have multiple definitions that can be quite humorous, and include example sentences.
Here are some:

Elevator Reflex
The urge people get once inside an elevator to stare compulsively at the ascending numbered lights (usually on top of the elevator doors) either because they are truly convinced this will speed up the whole 'process' or they are simply socially-awkward beings who can't bear to look at random people in the face for 30 seconds.

Mo:"Dude so I was talking to this chick.."
--elevator opens--
Toño Bicicleta: "Call you back Mo I have to stare at the floor 'till I get off the vator or else I have to talk to these people".
Mo: "Sounds like a bad case of the elevator reflex yo, you should go get checked."


Intellectual Masturbation
Fascinating intellectual breakthroughs regarding reality, language, existence, knowledge, perception, or human behavior which are completely unprovable and utterly without use, and therefore of no real consequence to anyone. See also: philosophy

Etymology: the mental counterpart to masturbation; i.e. a process that is very pleasurable but hasn't accomplished anything at the end.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that language influences human thought, so that native speakers of different languages think about concepts in incommensurably distinct modes. Linguists and psychologists contend fiercely over the validity of this claim, oblivious to the fact that it is intellectual masturbation.

Wallet Threat
is the reluctant act of pulling ones wallet out as a sign of willingness to pay for a meal you assumed was a treat.

"Mike, put that thing away, dinner is on me tonight."

"But it's so expensive."

"Dude, seriously, chill out with the wallet threat.

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