It’s very common that we make the mistakes when we are writing spellings as we try to write a spelling from the way we speak out. But English is a language in which we can’t write spellings based on the way we speak. There will several silent letters which brings the easiness and great elegant along with beauty while speaking. When we are trying to write spellings based on the way we speak we may miss the silent letters. There are other several different mistakes that we do when we write the spellings. Let’s see some general spelling mistakes that we do when we try to convert from the way we pronounce.
• Dropping a letter or syllable when we speak out a word.
• Adding an unnecessary letter when we are speaking a word.
• Mispronouncing a word and writing the spelling in that wrong way.
Missing letters: Here are some examples that we frequently misspell because we drop a letter while we speak.
Accidentally: Generally we pronounce this as accidently and we drop one letter.
Anecdote: We pronounce this as anecdote. So most often there is a chance to misspell this word because we will not pronounce that letter.
Asked: we will pronounce this by eliminating the letter ‘e’.
Category: We pronounce this as category which misleads us and possible to misspell the word.
There are so many words like this and these are only very few words among them.
Extra letters: because of the pronunciation be add extra letters while we speak. Here are some of the most common words in which we add extra letters.
Athlete: we pronounce this as athalete in which we add extra letter ‘a’ and when we try to write we usually misspell this word.
Perseverance: when we write down this word we often think there might be some silent letter and we misspell it as perserverance.
Hindrance: we often misspell this word as hinderance.
The are some of the examples which we often do when we try to convert a word in written form because we pronounce a word differently in the way we feel very easy to us. So different people may pronounce a word differently and possible chances of making mistakes when writing spelling of that word.
Transposed letters: Mispronunciation also creates misspell of the words by scrambling the letters. If we observer some examples we can see misspell of the words:
E.g.: Aesthetic, analysis, lingerie, psychology, gorgeous, mileage, rhyme.
Incorrect plurals: We often make mistakes while trying to convert the words into their plural forms as they are not always formed by just putting the letter ‘s’ at the end. There are some plural forms which are derived differently from all others. The only solution is that we have to remember the plural forms which derive differently from their singular forms. Let’s observe some examples so that we can understand more.
We can also eliminate this problem by just identifying the plurals as regular and irregular. We will have trouble only with the irregular plural forms which derives differently from their corresponding singular forms. For regular plural forms we just have to add the letter ‘s’ or ‘es’ at the end of the singular form.
E.g. bird: birds, hat: hats, pencil: pencils etc.
In some cases we need to add ‘es’ when the words end with ‘f’ or ‘fe’ or ‘v’.
E.g. half: halves, knife: knives, leaf: leaves etc.
For some compound statements we need to add differently the letter ‘s’.
E.g. mother-in-law: mothers-in-law etc.
There are other words which have very different form in plural. We can’t say how they are derived but we have to just catch those words.
E.g. child: children, foot: feet, mouse: mice etc.
One more situation in which we often confuse and misspell the words is the words which we pronounce the same.
E.g. born-Bourne, board– bored, brake-break, bear– bare etc.
January 27th, 2010 
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