You say tomato, I say... caffeine!
Not at all surprised to learn that caffiene and caffeine are nearly equally popular spellings of the same wonderful psychoactive compound...
Even though I prefer the former spelling, the latter is correct. The misspelling is so common that Wikipedia has a permanent redirect set up: caffiene
Normally, I'm incredibly uptight about spelling -- not sentence structure, so much, as I love a run-on as much as Faulkner -- but basic grammar and spelling are very important to me. Still, there is this handful of words I nearly always misspell: caffiene, mountian, policosanol...
Anyone else out there perpetually misspelling the same words?
Even though I prefer the former spelling, the latter is correct. The misspelling is so common that Wikipedia has a permanent redirect set up: caffiene
Normally, I'm incredibly uptight about spelling -- not sentence structure, so much, as I love a run-on as much as Faulkner -- but basic grammar and spelling are very important to me. Still, there is this handful of words I nearly always misspell: caffiene, mountian, policosanol...
Anyone else out there perpetually misspelling the same words?
posted by George | 6:18 AM
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