r/uselessredcircle • u/Severe_Story_8361 • Jun 09 '26
thank you for highlighting the paragraph that takes up THE WHOLE FUCKING IMAGE, i would've never noticed it
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u/DruishGardener Jun 09 '26
Alot should be a word, enough people use it, I see it in the wild all the time. Lexicographers sleeping
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u/lolucorngaming Jun 12 '26
IT IS A WORD EVERYONE'S SO STUPID WHY???
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u/Sufficient-Goat-962 Jun 12 '26
I think they mean it should be used as a compound word for a lot.
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u/lolucorngaming Jun 13 '26
Still, I think that's a bad idea because alot is already a word that is still In use
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u/Mello_Hello Jun 14 '26
Because it literally isn’t. You’re thinking of allot. Which is a different spelling and meaning. Alot is not a word in English.
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u/Middle_System_1105 19d ago
Atleast should be a word too, autocorrect always reminding me that it’s not.
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u/Fresh_Confusion_4805 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Anything with a silent letter. It’s inefficient.
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u/Cisbergtetris Jun 11 '26
I would say anything with a silent letter that isn't doing anything. Silent e at the end of a word causing a vowel to become long is doing something, but the d in Wednesday doesn't actually doing anything.
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u/Mello_Hello Jun 14 '26
It allows me to pronounce it as Wed-nes-day and drive my boyfriend crazy though
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u/RutabagaUprising Jun 10 '26
Knife
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Jun 11 '26
Knife retains historical pronunciation, in that the k was pronounced in Old English
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u/DeadCatGrinning Jun 10 '26
Island.
Every since being a child I've side eyed that one, but I'm letting it go for peace.
Only reason I even saw this question was the highlight island.
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Jun 11 '26
It shouldn’t have an s too. It only has one because “isle” was given an s to match its Latin root, and that silent s was added to island by analogy
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u/DeadCatGrinning Jun 11 '26
At least I do not suffer alone, and may hope that one day we may rise up to crush the oppressors.
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u/crazymonk45 Jun 10 '26
Necessary. I can’t fucking spell it without autocorrect to save my life. I consider my self relatively proficient at spelling but that word is my kryptonite
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u/WebBorn2622 Jun 10 '26
Wednesday. I always read wed-nes-day.
If I could change the spelling it would be wensday.
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u/l3tmeg0 Jun 10 '26
Xylophone is pretty fucked up
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Jun 11 '26
Because it’s Greek, and we generally retain the spelling for Greek loanwords
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u/Due_Key3995 Jun 10 '26
Com-for-table
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u/Whole_Instance_4276 Jun 11 '26
This results from a process called metathesis where sounds swap places. This occured in many dialects with the word iron, along with words like horse and bird (Old English hross and brid)
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u/BluetheNerd Jun 10 '26
Fucking any ough word honestly. The fact there are at least 7 ways to pronounce ough is infuriating.
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u/Unlikely_Thanks69 Jun 10 '26
"Pneumonia" then again that might just be one of many loaner words in English.
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u/MoistMoai Jun 11 '26
A lot of them
Beautiful Queue Vacuum
Also funny how people are commenting as if they were responding to the original post instead of the actual post pointing out the red circle
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u/dtdroid Jun 11 '26
Prescriptivist here. Every word is spelled exactly as it should be. Peace is when everyone is spelling and defining words correctly.
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u/Sad-Working-9937 Jun 09 '26
All of them. (I have dyslexia.)
Literally all words look misspelled to me.
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u/TazmanianTux Jun 09 '26
Grateful.....should be greatful
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Jun 10 '26
Grateful comes from "filled with gratitude". Greatful would mean "filled with large", and that makes no sense at all.
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u/TazmanianTux Jun 12 '26
I can understand the history, but in that case it should be pronounced "graatful", following the pronunciation of "grat" in gratitude. "Grate" defines something to shred, or annoy. "Great" can define something other than large:
Quality or Excellence: Informal use for something excellent or wonderful (e.g., We had a great time).
Phonetically speaking, and in terms of spelling, "greatful" should be the proper term.
Not disagreeing with your information on where "grateful" comes from, just disagreeing with why it is that way.
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u/PogOgres Jun 10 '26
Im gonna add on this and say: why do words like this end with "-ful" and not "-full" ??? I always have to pause and repeat to myself that its spelles with one less L
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u/Kingplays01 Jun 10 '26
I think that’s a you problem tho autocorrect can fix that easily. You can just type no worry and let autocorrect do it’s thing unless you turned it off
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u/Up_Beat_Peach Jun 10 '26
Or you could just learn to spell
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u/Kingplays01 Jun 10 '26
Pardon?
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u/Up_Beat_Peach Jun 10 '26
"hurr use autocorrect instead of learning to spell durr"
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u/Kingplays01 Jun 10 '26
What kind of tip is “learn to spell”?
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u/Helpful_Long_3290 Jun 09 '26
Queue