For me common spelling mistakes include confusing some of these word pairs.

  • loose vs. lose
  • then vs. than
  • were vs. where
  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    9 hours ago

    Licence / license, and practice / practise. I have to look them up every single time because I forget which of each is the noun and which is the verb, and even then, there are situations where using the noun as a verb might actually be the right thing to do and I hate the whole thing. So I probably still get those wrong whenever I use them.

    Barring brain farts (increasingly common) and muscle memory leading me astray on the keyboard, my spelling is otherwise fairly good, but those pairings I could do without.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      4 hours ago

      Regarding license and licence, in American English it’s just always license. So when in doubt pick that and claim to be an expat lol.