US & Canada's most misspelled words, according to Google Trends

[IAMX 3,055]

 

 

 

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/google-says-these-are-the-hardest-words-for-canadians-to-spell/

 

I already knew Albertans were special.

 

It's interesting why some people spell things differently..

 

Like MA and "license". NJ and "twelve", YT and "Altar", Hawaii and "people", etc.

[Teddy B 17,251]

The one word I always have problems with is "occaision". I can never remember if it's two c's or two s's. And the fact that the VJ spell checker underlines them both in red as being mispelled doesn't help matters either.

[bcking 3,157]

6 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

The one word I always have problems with is "occaision". I can never remember if it's two c's or two s's. And the fact that the VJ spell checker underlines them both in red as being mispelled doesn't help matters either.

Occasion also doesn't have an i before the s

 

I don't know my Canadian territories but...are we sure the blue one isn't just spelling it Color because they want to be like America?

Edited June 8, 2017 by bcking

[Teddy B 17,251]

Just now, bcking said:

Occasion also doesn't have an i before the s

Doh!

[Dashinka 24,109]

Doesn't Canada use the whole "re" instead of "er" for words using that ending?

 

I always have problems spelling "environment" 

[Teddy B 17,251]

6 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Doesn't Canada use the whole "re" instead of "er" for words using that ending?

 

I always have problems spelling "environment" 

Yes they do in words like litre, lustre and theatre. They also use the "our" in place of the US "or" in words like favour and colour. And they also substitute "que" for "ck" in the word cheque.

[IAMX 3,055]

39 minutes ago, bcking said:

Occasion also doesn't have an i before the s

 

I don't know my Canadian territories but...are we sure the blue one isn't just spelling it Color because they want to be like America?

They're more accustomed to American media and spelling in Ontario (good percentage of Canadians live within short distance of the border so they tend to get OTA broadcast signals) so makes sense. Even Albertans I find tend to spell things the American way rather than British English. A lot of business and education info tends to be in American English even in the Canadian versions of educational textbooks. 

 

But really for me the adjustment to that form of English wasn't difficult anyways given I'm multilingual. I think the toughest words for me are the ones that modify the way I'd pronounce the word like enrollment vs enrolment (subtle) or aluminum vs aluminium (more obvious). 

Edited June 8, 2017 by IAMX

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Nature boy, reads thread decides not to dip toe..cannon fodder and what  knot

Edited June 8, 2017 by Nature Boy Flair

[IAMX 3,055]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Nature boy, reads thread decides not to dip toe..cannon fodder and what  knot

[iwannaplay54 985]

8 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Nature boy, reads thread decides not to dip toe..cannon fodder and what  knot

Your wisdom and judgement is noted here.  On your behalf the VJ community is reporting this thread as baiting.

Edited June 9, 2017 by iwannaplay54

[Boiler 44,855]

Does Canada have an aversion to 'U' as well?

[Transborderwife 4,666]

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Does Canada have an aversion to 'U' as well?

I think that the difficulty is Americanized products.  We still use the U.

[Boiler 44,855]

There was coverage in the US MSM of the UK elections and they all seemed to be able to spell Labour correctly so why not normally?

[OriZ 3,157]

Europe? They don't know how to spell Europe around here? WTH people.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

45 minutes ago, OriZ said:

Europe? They don't know how to spell Europe around here? WTH people.

Everyone knows it's Urop