Directory of Problems in Traditional Spelling Resources

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• A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words

  http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/error.html
  An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.

• Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries

  http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/varsp.html
  An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.

 

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