Failed calculus jokes11/13/2023 ![]() No one would fault you for spelling it nayber. Yeah, lots of opportunities for goofing up this one. Neighbor : the ei takes on a long a sound, despite the i before e rule, and then there’s a silent gh. That’ll help you remember that independent ends in – ent, not – ant. Independent : ants live in colonies, which isn’t very independent. Height : the three dimensions are length, width, and height, not heighth, regardless of how my father pronounced it. Sorry, I don’t have any tips for remembering this one… except maybe that it’s on this list, which will help you remember that they’re spelled differently. Ninth / ninety : fifth and fifty are parallel, in that both change v to f and drop the e. Twelfth : there’s a little “elf” in twelfth, even if you incorrectly say “twelth” without the f. To help you remember the difference, keep in mind that 40 is the largest number that, when spelled out, has all its letters in alphabetical order - and that won’t be the case if a u is included. The following are math words pulled from a variety of lists of commonly misspelled words.įorth/fourth/forty : there’s a u in the ordinal number, but not in the multiple of 10. Most of the really hard-to-spell math words are the names of mathematicians, like de Moivre, Poincaré, Weierstrauss, Euler, and Euclid. As it turns out, many of the math words that you’d think would be hard to spell - words with several syllables or lots of letters, like parabola or triangle or differentiation - are actually spelled exactly like they sound. My purpose in writing this post was to provide a list of hints for how to spell the most frequently misspelled math words. ![]() Therefore, by induction, there are infinitely many proofs that 1 = 2.)īut, I digress. (For the infinitely geeky, there’s this follow-up, posted by Anders Kaseorg on Quora: Sort of like the deliberate mistake in this proof that 1 = 2: One has to wonder if these mistakes were intentional, to keep the reader on her toes and emphasize how important spelling is. And then at the end of the paragraph, it seems they’re trying to make a joke by spelling knowledgeable incorrectly but then correcting the spelling between the dashes yet both instances are spelled the same - correctly, in fact - which I suspect was autocorrect fixing the deliberate misspelling before this blurb went to print. It seems that Magnan and Santovec should increase their list to 1003 words and add memory and correct (misspelled as “memeory” and “corret” in the excerpt above). Spelling is so very important, in fact, they’ve taken great care in writing a description of their book for Amazon. ![]() Spelling is important, as authors Robert Magnan and Mary Lou Santovec claim in their e-book 1001 Commonly Misspelled Words. And statistically speaking, it stands to reason that I’d screw it up often - it’s a word I type frequently. For unobvious reasons, I tend to transpose the M and A in the third syllable. It’s not that I mis spell it as much as I mis type it. In an ironic twist of fate, the word that I misspell most often is MATHEAMTICS. ![]() But if you were paying attention, you may have noticed that the word mathematics was misspelled in the title. No, this isn’t meant to be another stupid post about how ppolee can raed setecnnes wehn the ltetres of ecah wrod are scamrbeld. 11 Commonly Misspelled Words in Matheamtics ![]()
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