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This category contains 10 sites:

• A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words - 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.
• Dan Quayle's Problems with Spelling - Even American vice presidents have problems with spelling English words...including beakon, lousey, Vice President's Office of Competativeness (official letterhead) and the infamous "potatoe". Dan Quayle "quotes" compiled by Mel Walker
• DidYouMean? - Directory of common misspelled search terms.
• Online Technical Writing: Common Grammar, Usage, and Spelling Problems - Commas, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, hyphens, comma splices and run-ons, fragments, problem modifiers, parallelism, subject-verb agreement, pronoun references, pronoun case (who, whom), capitalization, when to use numbers versus words, symbols, and ab
• Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems - Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.
• Sites to Spell With - from Lifesavers - New Teachers Corner editors share their 10 favorite sites on spelling strategies on the Microsoft Classroom Teaching Network (mctn).
• Spelling Reform - Educational tools to help students in their difficulties in "traditional" English writing. Bookshop, software, reviews, orders from Mantex.co.uk . Site also reproduces Mark Twain's short article "A plan for improving English language spelli
• The Problem of English Spelling - Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links.
• The River - Goerge - the great mis-spellings page - A humorous look at how the age-old problems of traditional mis-spellings have crept into the internet world even with a bigger force!
• Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries - An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.