«Embarrass» and its derivatives are among the most frequently misspelled words in the English language. I've spent more than an hour correcting pd entries today. We can get the jump on the world by making «embaras», «embarras», and «embarass» acceptable alternative spellings. The way languages, especially English, evolve, those spellings may well become acceptable some day. Here's a real world example: The correct form of an expression for someone getting what she deserves is «just deserts»; however, it's misspelled as «just desserts» more often than it's spelled correctly. How long can it be before «just desserts» will become not only an acceptable spelling, but perhaps even the preferred spelling? As the old White Owl cigar commercials (circa 1971) used to say, "We're gonna get ya." Pseud dudes and dudettes might as well be leaders of the pack.
Примеры использования:
I'm tired of being embarased by a mispeling involving doubled consonants, so I'm going to adopt a speling convention in which no consonants are doubled. Ever. I haven't made up my mind about vowels. I'm thinking, I'm thinking. | I remember how embarased I was to misspell my first word ever in second grade spelling class. (I'm back to "standard" spelling. It takes too much thought to spell the wrong way.) Students gave each other the words to be spelt spelled. The fateful day came for me when my nemesis Loretta was charged with giving me the words to spell. All was going fine until I asked her to tell me whether the word she'd just given me to spell was «missed» or «mist». She wouldn't do it. I guessed wrong. I was so perturbed by my first miss that I stayed in during the next recess and studied for the next day's lesson -- the first time I'd ever bothered to look at the spelling list.
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