Misspelling rogue as rouge - enlighten me

[Gez]

rogue/rouge
thief/theif
deity/diety
tongue/tounge

A way to solve that would be to push for another spelling reform in American English. Change all the -gue words by -gg words. Rogg, tongg, etc. After all, -que was replaced by -ck in check. "But it wasn't replaced by -ck in barbeque" some may say. Indeed, it's because it's not barbeque (which should be pronounced barbeck) but barbecue (pronounced barbekyou). Confusion comes from the roughly phonetic abbreviation of BBQ.

Anyone got something to propose for words in -ie- like thief (theef?) and words in -ei- like deity (deyty?) ?

After all, since kids these day are too dim to learn the reasons why words are spelled like they are (etymology, in other words), all the laws and exceptions that governs spelling -- otherwise, they would be taught that, wouldn't they? -- spelling needs to be mangled until it reaches a point where there's nothing to learn about it anymore.

This rant is courtesy of the Bring Rolleyes Back found.

 

[shilsen]

It's because many people are both uneducated (or at least seriously underequipped due to a poor educational system) and too lazy to try to rectify their weaknesses by sufficient reading and attention to detail when using language, whether written or oral. And no, I'm not bitter . I'm just an Indian teaching European drama translated to English to American students. Why should anything about language make me bitter?

 

[hong]

It's because many people are both uneducated (or at least seriously underequipped due to a poor educational system) and too lazy to try to rectify their weaknesses by sufficient reading and attention to detail when using language, whether written or oral. And no, I'm not bitter . I'm just an Indian teaching European drama translated to English to American students. Why should anything about language make me bitter?

Dude! I feel your pain. Let us talk about the cricket.

 

[Liolel]

I think its just that people make mistakes when typing, and that people notice whene rogue iss mispelled more often because the mispelling forms another word instead of something that is obviously a typo.

 

[Boddha]

Did someone say cricket?

 

[hong]

Did someone say cricket?

Oops! I misspelled "croquet", as did you. HTH!

 

[fusangite]

A number of changes have taken place in the past 20 years in how people treat the letter "g." It used to be, when our parents were taught English, that "g" went "j" when followed by an "e," "i," "y," and sometimes an "a" and it went "g" when followed by a "u" or "o." People do not see this as a rule anymore and, as a result, some spellings have changed, such as: "judgement" is now spelled "judgment"; and "guage" is now spelled "gauge."

I think we can look forward to more "gu" words losing their u's and other related developments in the next few decades.

 

[CronoDekar]

I don't know; it doesn't bother me much. What I get irritated at is seeing the word "lose" misspelled as "loose." Whereas "rogue" is a relatively uncommon word, "lose" is very common. And it's not even anywhere near as complex as the they're/their/there or your/you're problems! I crumple up and yell to the Rogue Gods of Grammar "NOOOOOOOOOO!" (especially when it's obvious it's not just a typo), and then because of my Frenzied Grammatist levels I go on a rampage throughout town. I will not tell details of the rampage because it is too gruesome, but let it be said that all small animals tremble at my approach (well, all the squirrels... usually).

Oh, and topic. Probably just because they know all the letters that go in the word, but aren't quite sure of the order. Either that or it's a deliberate attempt to make us Frenzied Grammatists go crazy just to show how broken the prestige class is. I think they're just envious because their DMs didn't let them take it.

 

[Wormwood]

Apparently spelling mistakes really annoy me.

Let's just leave it at that.

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[IronWolf]

I think its just that people make mistakes when typing, and that people notice whene rogue iss mispelled more often because the mispelling forms another word instead of something that is obviously a typo.

With the typos aside.... <grin>

mispelled = misspelled
mispelling = misspelling