Very familiar words that people often misspell

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

When writing certain words, anyone can make a mistake, because, really, not everyone has absolute literacy and not everyone, unfortunately, had an A in the Russian language at school. Especially often comments and posts on the Internet, and sometimes articles on websites, are full of such errors. However, there are words in which people misspell the most often. And if you didn't manage to learn them at school, now you can just remember them. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the mini-rating of such "insidious" words.

It is wrong to say and write "key chains" as a plural of the word "key chain". People often make a mistake in this word, pronouncing it by analogy with other similar nouns. However, the word "keychain" is of foreign origin (in French, breloque is a pendant). And therefore, despite the fact that it has long been firmly embedded in the Russian language, in the plural it sounds with an unchanged root - "o" does not disappear.

The modern word "extreme" is sometimes mis-spelled with the letter "and" in the middle. Perhaps confusing is the word "extreme", which is no less popular than its cousin adjective. In order not to be mistaken, you just need to remember the spelling of these two words.

How is it correct - "in general", "in general" or "in general"? This question often confuses not very literate people, and sometimes even the question does not arise - the person automatically writes the wrong version, because he is already so used to it. Meanwhile, there can be only one answer to this question - according to the rules of the Russian language, it is written "in general" and nothing else. To remember this, you can put "in general" on a par with such "brothers" as "in general" and "in particular".

The word "offhand" - answers the question "How?" and therefore it is written only together. This is an adverb and you can pick up synonyms for it - for example, "tentatively". Well, for those who write it separately ("on a throwback"), you can ask an ironic question: "What kind of a throwback?"

You can often find the use of the word "excessive" with an extra letter "e". A person subconsciously wants to write incorrectly, since there is a preposition "through" (they say, "excessive" means "through measure"). However, in this case we are talking about the prefix "through". By the way, it is very old and in Old Slavonic it was written like this: "chrѣz".

Although the word "in addition" is an adverb, it is spelled separately. This is an exception, so you just need to remember it. Again, synonyms will help to do this - for example, "in addition".

But "take away" is a common adverb that is written together. Therefore, if a restaurant writes that "take-away coffee" is offered to visitors, this immediately lowers the status of the institution in the eyes of educated customers.

The participle "next" is written with the letter "y". But the "future" - without it. In order not to be mistaken, you can say to yourself "I follow." The same can be done with the word future: "I will" - the letters "u", here, accordingly, no.

The word "cardinal" is often spelled incorrectly - with one or two letters "o". However, it comes from the Latin cardinālis, which translates as "main". In modern speech, it means about the same - "most important", "essential". Accordingly, the dictionaries contain the only correct spelling of this word - "cardinal".

The word linoleum has perhaps the largest number of incorrect variations. It's really hard to remember its spelling. It will be easier to do this by disassembling it into its components. Translated from Latin, linum means flax, and oleum means vegetable oil.

To spell the word "prehistory" correctly, you just need to remember one of the rules of the Russian language. If at the end of the prefix there is a consonant letter, and the root of the word begins with "and", after the prefix, instead of "and" is written "s".

In colloquial speech, when the word "manager" is pronounced quickly, the letter "u" is usually not heard. Hence the common spelling mistake: "manager". In order not to make mistakes and not automatically write incorrectly, you need to remember the magic wand that helps with the word "next". If you say "I am in charge" - the "missing" letter "yu" will immediately remind you of itself.