An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.

Even American vice presidents have problems with spelling English words...including beakon, lousey, Vice President's Office of Competativeness (official letterhead) and the infamous "potatoe". Dan Quayle "quotes" compiled by Mel Walker.

Directory of commonly misspelled search terms.

Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.

Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links.

A humorous look at how the age-old problems of traditional mis-spellings have crept into the internet world even with a bigger force!

An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language.