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Monday 23rd April was the UN’s English Language Day and also William Shakespeare’s birthday. To celebrate, we thought we’d pay homage to Shakespeare and the tribulations of spelling mistakes.
With great carelessness and some delicious irony we ‘accidently’ made a spelling mistake on that very image. With this in mind, we’ve prepared a short list of common (British English) spelling mistakes in the hope that you won’t make the same comedy of errors.
Here are some of the most commonly misspelt words in the English language:
Accommodate (verb) – often misspelt with only one ‘m’ as accomodate
Definitely – we’ve all definately spelt this one incorrectly before
Necessary – it’s neccessary to spell it correctly
Occurred – this misspelling has occured more than once
Receive – not recieve, remember “i before e except after c”
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