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Old February 19, 2002, 10:44   #1
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Common misspellings
It is cavalry, not "calvary".
Feudalism, not "fuedalism".
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Old February 19, 2002, 10:50   #2
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Deity, not diety
definitely, not definately

Edit: Your signature would be: Die Männer, die vorm Schokoladenladen Laden laden, laden Ladenmädchen ein zum Tanz.

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Old February 19, 2002, 10:54   #3
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Colour not Color
Centre not Center



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Old February 19, 2002, 10:57   #4
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Viceroy, if you every Americanism post as misspelling, this thread is going to get looooong!
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Old February 19, 2002, 11:04   #5
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I know!! actually, I missed a really big one

Civilisation NOT civilization ha ha
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Do I detect a bit of colonial smugness here?
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Old February 19, 2002, 11:37   #7
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Am I in Civ School or something? Sure feels familiar....
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Old February 19, 2002, 11:53   #8
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ABSOLUTLY .. Im a Viceroy ..

don't worry . .I was only joking .. we love you all really (that is our American brothers) .. if we were all the same, it would be a dull world indeed.

Apologies .. I think im polluting this thread ..
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ABSOLUTLY .. Im a Viceroy ..

don't worry . .I was only joking .. we love you all really (that is our American brothers) .. if we were all the same, it would be a dull world indeed.

Apologies .. I think im polluting this thread ..
BTW, that's "ABSOLUTELY"

("Oh My!" he says, as he walks away with egg on his face.)

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Old February 19, 2002, 12:30   #10
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And just to be back on-topic
Razing, and not raising.
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I smell spam...

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Old February 19, 2002, 14:21   #12
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I wonder if the fact that I spelled the work "of" as "uv" until the 4th grade has anything to do with my poor skills in writing.......
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Old February 19, 2002, 15:19   #13
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I wonder if the fact that I spelled the work "of" as "uv" until the 4th grade has anything to do with my poor skills in writing.......
What do you mean it's not "uv"?
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Old February 19, 2002, 16:02   #14
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And shouldn't it be...
Suffrage not sufferage.

According to Merriam-Webster's online:

Main Entry: suf·frage
Pronunciation: 's&-frij, sometimes -f&-rij
Function: noun
Etymology: in sense 1, from Middle English, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin, vote, political support, from suffragari to support with one's vote; in other senses, from Latin suffragium
Date: 14th century
1 : a short intercessory prayer usually in a series
2 : a vote given in deciding a controverted question or in the choice of a person for an office or trust
3 : the right of voting : FRANCHISE; also : the exercise of such right
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Old February 19, 2002, 17:47   #15
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emperor, not emporer.

ridiculous, not rediculous.

asteroid, not asteriod. (Heh, not especially germane to Civ, but I thought I'd just toss it in there. )

"is disappointing", not "sux0rz".

And while we're complaining about stuff, I wish to go on record as stating that too many people are punctuating their petty demands with the little red fist-pounding guy. This overuse MUST STOP!

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Old February 19, 2002, 19:33   #16
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Your probberly right two comence these thred.

....btw it's "carvery", not calvary
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Getting back to topic...
artillery, not "artillary"
Gandhi, not "Ghandi"
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Old February 21, 2002, 18:51   #18
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Teh most common misspelling is probably just a typing error.
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Old February 22, 2002, 01:00   #19
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"is disappointing", not "sux0rz"
HAHAHA

A friend of mine talks/spells in 133t all the time. It pisses me off.


Advisor, not adiviser
Military, not militery

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Dis thraed is funy.
It halps mey two speel
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Old February 22, 2002, 06:49   #21
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I must say that it's not so bad on this forum. At least I can figure out what people mean ... most of the time anyway.
The posts on the Mohaa boards are sometimes so bad when it comes to spelling and punctuation that I have no idea what the poster[1] is talking about.

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Old February 22, 2002, 10:24   #22
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I must say that it's not so bad on this forum. At least I can figure out what people mean ... most of the time anyway.
The posts on the Mohaa boards are sometimes so bad when it comes to spelling and punctuation that I have no idea what the poster[1] is talking about.

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Civ games tends to attract intelligent players, it's kind of the nature of the game. Also, an interest in history is pretty much guarenteed I think.
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Aren't we missing the biggest offender?
It's LOSE, people. L-O-S-E. One (1) O.

It is NOT LOOSE

. That one bugs the HELL out of me, since I see it everywhere (I even see it occasionally in newspaper headlines).
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It is shield, not "sheild".
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Ugh! For all you Brits, the word 'color' or 'colour' comes from the Latin 'color' so guess what? We Americans are right on this one. (No doubt 'colour' comes from a French corruption of Latin introduced into English by the Nasty Norman Froggies who conquered your country oh so long ago.)

You may have us on center though, which comes from 'centrum' a perfectly good 2nd declension neuter Latin noun. 'Center' looks like a 3rd declension Latin noun (which would decline as 'center', 'centris', 'centro', etc.), but the orginal is 2nd not 3rd declension. However, 'centre' would be the ablative form of the hypothetical 3rd declension form 'center' (again, not an actual word) so you may even be further off that us (at least 'center' looks nomnative ...)
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Old February 27, 2002, 16:54   #26
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Teh most common misspelling is probably just a typing error.
Yuo are right.

Ah, and two more:

to receive, not recieve
weird, not wierd
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Old February 27, 2002, 18:33   #27
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[too many people are punctuating their petty demands with the little red fist-pounding guy. This overuse MUST STOP!
Ohh! That's what it is!!! I thought it was a tail!
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How about the oh so confusing:

its and it's;
there, their, and they're;
which and witch;
whether and weather;
Firaxis, please listen and Firaxis, you dumb f*cks

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It is granary, not "granery" or "grainery".
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Civ games tends to attract intelligent players, it's kind of the nature of the game. Also, an interest in history is pretty much guarenteed I think.
guarenteed?
guaranteed.


was that on porpoise?
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