{"id":8661,"date":"2016-04-12T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2016-05-07T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T19:27:04","slug":"listifylife-words-i-always-spell-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-words-i-always-spell-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"#ListifyLife &#8211; Words I Always Spell Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWordsWrong-April.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8662\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWordsWrong-April.jpg\" alt=\"ListifyWordsWrong-April\" width=\"320\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWordsWrong-April.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWordsWrong-April-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ListifyWordsWrong-April-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s #ListifyLife theme is a weird one for me, because:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I&#8217;m Canadian, so if I&#8217;m writing Canadian I automatically spell words &#8220;wrong,&#8221; like colour and theatre. I don&#8217;t spell them wrong for Canadians, and maybe not for the British (there is some confusion being Canadian because we spell some words the British way and others American), but I spell them &#8220;wrong&#8221; for Americans; and<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a really good speller, so I had to think extra-hard about words I spell wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Miniscule or Minuscule?<\/em> The latter is the correct spelling, but the former is becoming commonplace because it means &#8220;very small&#8221; and &#8220;mini&#8221; also now means &#8220;very small.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/words\/minuscule-or-miniscule\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link<\/a> that shows I&#8217;m not in the minority getting confused!<\/li>\n<li><em>Barbeque or barbecue?<\/em> No wonders folks just say BBQ. I use both spellings, depending on how I feel, and I think I can safely blame the barbeque spelling on the fact that Canada is supposedly bilingual and if &#8220;barbeque&#8221; isn&#8217;t French, well, it should be. \ud83d\ude42 Link\u00a0that says the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarist.com\/spelling\/barbecue-barbeque\/\" target=\"_blank\">barbeque spelling<\/a> is likely Spanish&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>License or Lisence or Licence?<\/em>\u00a0I spell it the first way, but I often check, because a lot of times the British spelling in certain words will have an S while the American spelling has a C, or vice versa. My auto-correct says that both license and licence are correct and lisence is all types of wrong! it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/grammarist.com\/spelling\/licence-license\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m spelling American<\/a> when it comes to License.<\/li>\n<li><em>Onomatopoeia<\/em>. I always forget the last O and spell Onomoatapeia. If you look at the photo graphic, it appears I&#8217;ve also left off the i, but I haven&#8217;t. You can see the dot of the i, but my writing can get pretty messy and in this case I&#8217;ve flowed the majority of the i from that weird little E right before it. \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li><em>Supercalafragalisticexpealidocious<\/em>. I mean, come on, who gets that right? I&#8217;m blaming my misspelling on the fact that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus\"> it&#8217;s not a &#8220;real&#8221; word,<\/a> but it&#8217;s certainly in the lexicon, isn&#8217;t it? By the way, the Interwebs\u00a0says the real spelling is\u00a0supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, so I confused some As for Is, or the other way around.<\/li>\n<li>What words do you always spell wrong?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s #ListifyLife theme is a weird one for me, because: I&#8217;m Canadian, so if I&#8217;m writing Canadian I automatically spell words &#8220;wrong,&#8221; like colour and theatre. I don&#8217;t spell them wrong for Canadians, and maybe not for the British (there is some confusion being Canadian because we spell some words the British way and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/listifylife-words-i-always-spell-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ListifyLife &#8211; Words I Always Spell Wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-listifylife","category-stuff-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}