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  2. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded use of "fuck" in English comes from c. 1475, in the poem Flen flyys, where it is spelled fuccant (conjugated as if a Latin verb meaning "they fuck"). The word derived from Proto-Germanic roots, and has cognates in many other Germanic languages. [9] [10] [11]

  3. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh" (if spoken with a non-rhotic accent); "marshal" and "George Marshall"; "chaplain" and "Charlie Chaplin". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: Our family has been trying to save money because of the country's current economic situation. ascent and assent. To ascend means to go up or advance from an original position. To assent is to agree. [23] Standard: I watched the balloon's ascent into the sky. Standard: We need to reach assent on how to do this project. assure, ensure ...

  5. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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    Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...

  6. As for the "spelled"/"spelt" joke (which is what that deliberately inconsistent usage is), I like it, and could easily be persuaded to lobby for it to be kept in that sentence.---This means that you oughtn't to change a spelling that is perfectly normal in British English simply because your preference is another (also common) spelling.

  7. Tori Spelling Says Daughter, 16, Acts as 'Second Mom' of the ...

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    Tori Spelling is leaning on her older daughter amid her divorce from Dean McDermott.. On this week's episode of her podcast misSPELLING, the mom of five, 51, shared that her daughter Stella, 16 ...

  8. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    Historically, it used to be spelled as two words in the United States, but its usage is diminishing; nevertheless it is a variant spelling in American English today. The spelling difference is reflected in the style guides of newspapers and other media agencies in the US, Ireland, and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.

  9. Google’s Olympics ad went viral for all the wrong reasons

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    The ad demonstrated the Google AI tool’s ability to generate increasingly human-sounding text, a capability the company has said could be used for everything from writing work emails to trip ...