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   These Are The Most Misspelled Words On Dictionary.com

   Have you ever typed a word into Dictionary.com just to see how it's spelled? Yup, us too. Here are the most misspelled words so far for 2019.

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   These Hacks Remind Us That Spelling Still Matters
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   These Songs Helped Us Learn How To Spell
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   Cough, Cough: Here Are 10 Different Ways To Say “-ough”
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   The Biggest Grammatical Mistakes In Songs We Love To Sing
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   “Spring Forward, Fall Back” And Other Memory Tricks

   At the beginning of Daylight-Saving Time, we all spring our clocks forward one hour … and gripe about losing an hour of sleep. Then, we all turn around a few months later, fall back, and thank our lucky stars that we get some extra shuteye. The official term for it is daylight-saving time or daylight-savings time (because we all ended up saying this version more … …

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   What Is Phonetic Spelling?

   Spelling is how we put words together, but what is phonetic spelling? An alternate way to create words? Well, yes! What is phonetic spelling? Phonetic spelling is a system of spelling in which each letter represents one spoken sound. In English, some words are pronounced exactly as they look. When T is used to spell tiger, the letter T is assigned one sound. Simple, right? Well, we …

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   Who’s To Blame For Weird English Spellings?

   Let’s be honest: It’s practically impossible to be a “good” speller in English. The way words are spelled in English just don’t match how they are pronounced. Why, English language, why? Well, we can start by blaming William Caxton and the printing press. Diving into the historical context Let’s begin at the beginning, though: England, 1476. Norman French presence was in decline as the Bubonic Plague …

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   What’s The Buzz About Spelling Bees?

   Do you know what these winning words mean—all the way back to the first Scripps National Spelling Bee, in 1925?

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    How Does Autocorrect Ducking Work, Anyway?

    The iPhone may have only shown up during the aughts, but autocorrect is almost as old as personal computers. Even some of the earliest word processors had a spellcheck feature that suggested alternative words if a word you typed did not appear in its internal dictionary. Certainly, today, autocorrect has come a long way since the Cupertino effect. What’s the Cupertino effect? Well, in its …