>>I lost out in the first round of my 5th grade spelling-bee - and things havent been the same since. Your help in this area is augmenting my therapy and is appreciated!:)
>>"Parouse" should have been "paruse"
>>"Humerous" should have been "humorous"
>>"publically" should have benn "publicly"
>>"unwittenly" should have been "unwittingly"
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>OK, then doctor prescribes:
>"peruse" instead of "paruse"
>"haven't" instead of "havent"
>and my bad, "publically" is actually OK... don't know how it returned a "not found" first time, probably the spelling germ caught me there :).
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>Now how about a little grassroots movement we could start... ask Michel to award negative stars to anyone who writes sepErately instead of sepArately, and definAtely instead of definItely...? :)

Or, everybody's all time favourite; 'loose' when they mean 'lose'. Actually the best thing I ever saw was a number of years ago on a 'bulletin board' (remember those?). The writer used the phrase: "It's a doggy dog world."