some words that I misspell frequently are:
-words that have back to back letters like commit or embarrass
-definitely (the i's and e's could be interchangable throughout the entire word)
-words with au or ei/ie such as restaurant (just typing that word right now I misspelled it 3 times)
-words that could start like pre or per like perservere
-I just learned how to spell parallel correctly
-words that could be spelled with a c or an s like exercise
-basically those words that could be spelt with multiple different letters to still have the same sound (like replacing c with s or c with k, etc)
I actually think spell check does a pretty good job at checking misspelled words and poor phrases. I know a lot of times I will leave out commas or maybe forget to add a semicolon, but I much of the time when I check what spellcheck has to say, they are usually correct. It gets frustrating when they say I spelt my own name wrong however. And I don't know about anybody elses computer but mine does tell me when I use the wrong "there or their". Now, I'm not saying that I blindly just click change when I am reviewing my work with spell check, because some of the time they do get it wrong, but most of the time they correct the little mistakes that I forget. The computer will make guesses based on what the word that you wrote sounds like and if you have the beginning letters basically the same
Uniform spelling is necessary for accurate communication because some people in different areas pronounce things differently, so if we all just made up how we felt it should sound, what may sound accurate to one person in Minnesota may not sound accurate in England or even Mississippi. for example, if we say pass the malk (milk) in minnesota, someone in Mississippi may do what spell check does and make a guess of what your saying based on words that it actually knows, so it may think you are saying malt instead of milk.
misspellings in company names like in froot loops or kleenex make the company more memorable because we have the normal way to spell things so engraved in our minds. We are going to remember businesses like Toys R Us because of the R rather than if they said are. Because if they just said are then we would file it into the part of the brain the blindly reads signs and ads, but its not until something is odd or different that we move from the subconcious brain to the concious (I just spelt both of those words wrong...wow).
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