Commonly Misspelled Words That Have Weird Pronunciation

Did your English teacher ever scold you for misspelling a word? Well, she might even be misspelling it too. Yes, some commonly misspelled words have become a part of our language.

Somebody misspelled or mispronounced it, and the rest followed it, that’s how some words have lost its originality. It usually happens when the words are foreign and you don’t know how do you spell definitely the same word.

Here are some commonly misspelled words that not only misspelled but have weird pronunciation as well.

Common Words We Almost Spelled Differently

Guess The Correct Spelling Of Nickname?

But the word “eke name” seems dull and outdated to English speakers. So, they just gave a twist to the word and used nick instead of eke. English speakers found a nickname cooler and less strange than the original name. That’s how we got the nickname.

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Orange Was Not Always Orange

The “ga” becomes “nj” by the Arab traders, and now naranga was pronounced as “naranj.” the Europeans spelled it arangia. But it was difficult to pronounce by the English and French speakers. So, they called it by different names like narangia, norange, and un arangia.

By the year 1500, it ultimately got renamed as orange, and the whole world now misspells it.

Apron Or Napron?

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Have you ever got confused when writing aluminum? Well, both spellings are correct as British English says it is aluminium and American English say it's aluminum. Both the commonly misspelled words given by Sir Humphry Davy.

He gave us other useful elements such as magnesium, sodium, and potassium. Just because aluminum was not rhyming with these words, he added an extra “i” to it. But Americans prefer the Noah Webster dictionary where I got lost, and they used the word ending with- um. So, if you are writing as per British English use ium or else it’s um at the ending.

These few commonly misspelled words show that despite boundaries, language finds its way. But when foreign words get in use by other countries, errors are obvious to happen, and that’s how we get new words.