I consider myself fairly literate, but every so often I come across a word that I have been spelling wrong. Forever.
Latest find: Connecticut. Not that I spell it terribly often. But I’ve been spelling it without the 2nd c.
Another bad one was definite. I had been spelling it “defenite”. Sure it’s a common mistake, but when you discover that you’ve been doing it, it’s cruddy.
Shannen - Is it worse when you find out you’ve been pronouncing the word wrong? Like a good friend of mine (you know who you are) who pronounces *Rideau*, *Ridoo*. Justifiably, he’s not from around here and hadn’t heard the word on a regular basis like most Ottawans have, but it still makes me chuckle.
Ridoo.
Jen - Gary!