So here we are in the era of Word’s red-underline “wrong spelling, dumb ass” feature and Outlook’s Always Check Spelling Before Sending option, and still the mistakes proliferate. Catching typos is easy (although not everyone does it). It’s the other stuff — correctly spelled but incorrectly wielded — that sneaks through and makes us look stupid. Here’s a quick review of some of the big ones.
Few listed are Loose for lose, effect for affect and lay for lie. It’s too bad this was not a “popular spelling mistakes” list. I could fill up an entire database with entries.
Source: Scribd