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From: Tom Carty <cartyweb at hotmail.com>
Subject: Bad spelling
Bad spelling 'should be accepted'

Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not
corrected, a lecturer has said. Ken Smith of Bucks New University says the
most common mistakes should be accepted as "variant spellings".

He lists the 10 most commonly misspelt words, which include "arguement" for
"argument" and "twelth" for "twelfth".

Mr Smith says his proposal, outlined in an article in the Times Higher
Education Supplement, follows years of correcting the same mistakes.

Mr Smith, a criminology lecturer, said: "Instead of complaining about the
state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after
year, I've got a better idea.

"University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words
our students most commonly misspell.

Testing the spelling of the general public

"The spelling of the word 'judgement', for example, is now widely accepted
as a variant of 'judgment', so why can't 'truely' be accepted as a variant
spelling of 'truly'?"

Mr Smith also suggested adding the word "misspelt" to the list and all those
that break the "i before e" rule - weird, seize, neighbour and foreign.

He said he was not asking people to learn to spell words differently.

"All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly
misspelt words in the English language on the same footing as those other
words that have a widely accepted variant spelling," he added.

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