I've been spelling this word wrong my whole life!

[cruisnfamily]

I thought I found an error on DS's spelling list this week and got out a dictionary to be sure. Turns out I've been spelling this word wrong my whole life.

Now, no cheating and looking it up in the dictionary....how do you spell this word?

Refridgerator
Refrigerator

I now know the correct answer but I thought I'd take a poll and see if I was alone in my error or if it was a common one. DH spelled it the way I thought it was spelled, we were both wrong. So my DIS friends, which is it?

Third try to see if I can do this as a poll....keeps timing out on me sorry for the double posts!

 

[SC Minnie]

refrigerator

 

[Kim&Chris]

I'm gonna take a shot and say that the 'd' shouldn't be in the word.

Am I right? Am I right? Am I right??

 

[antmaril]

refrigerator

 

[browneyes]

No d. Which is misleading because a lot of people nickname it 'fridge.

 

[Mom2Ashli]

No 'd' in the word Refrigerator.

 

[Kallison]

My freshman year of college I wrote a paper on water conservation and spelled Pennsylvania wrong throughout all 20 pages. Luckily we had just gotten spell check on computers!

I spelled surprise wrong until DH and I started dating and he pointed it out.

When I started using the DIS back in 98 I realized I had been spelling dilemma wrong for 37 years.

My students always misspell and misprounounce interesting - it's always intresting.

 

[kazzie]

Although I knew the refrigerator one (!) I have words too that Ive realised
I've been spelling incorrrectly for years.I always spelt business--buisness But the 'proper spelling of it doesn't make sense

 

[HollyJoy]

No D in the word!

 

[olena]

The second one.

The most common word I see spelled incorrectly is judgment. There's no 'e' between 'g' and 'm', yet I see it all the time. I used to be guilty of it myself, until I had an English professor who corrected me.

Definitely is the most common mistake I see on the DIS. There's just no 'a' in there.

 

[Towncrier]

How about "suprise"?

I am surprised at how many people get this one wrong.

And "foward"?

I worked with a software engineer who refused to believe that the word was forward.

 

[orangeblossom]

It's refrigerator and mispronounce, not misprounounce.

 

[cruisnfamily]

No d. Which is misleading because a lot of people nickname it 'fridge.

Exactly right!

No d. But there is a d in Fridge.

It looks like everybody knew that but me...I tried to make this a poll but unfortunately the computer kept timing out and I ended up triple posting but no poll. Oh well.

 

[Sandy51]

This is funny. Surprise amd business are two of my students' spelling words this week. Last week we had judgment. We have had refrigerate this year. A few others I repeat are definitely and separate.



Sandy

 

[olena]

Sandy, you certainly have a great list goig there. I forgot about separate. That's another one I see in different forms.

 

[golfgal]

I have never claimed to be a great speller, but when I was teaching, I tried to make sure my notes, things on the board, etc. were spelled correctly. Well, when I was a new teacher, in one of my first classes I was talking about Honest Abe. I went to write his name on the board and spelled it "Lincon" One of the kids pointed out that his name is spelled "LincoLn". Never, ever noticed the second L in all my years of school. Oops. From then on I gave kids an extra credit point for finding misspellings-kept their attention anyway.

 

[DemonLlama]

The most common word I see spelled incorrectly is judgment. There's no 'e' between 'g' and 'm', yet I see it all the time. I used to be guilty of it myself, until I had an English professor who corrected me.

But the British spelling is judgement.

 

[alliecats]

It drives me crazy when people spell congratulations, as congradulations. AGHH! But it happens a lot.

 

[Michelina]

A trick for separate is to remember that it has "a rat" in it!
I hate, hate, hate when I see people spell "lose" as "loose". I saw it in the newspaper once and cut out the article, circled it in red pen and mailed it back them.