Today's spelling lesson:

[Brigid]

The word is spelled "moron," not moran."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moron

signed,

the spelling police. :evilgrin:

[BarenakedLady]

1. But offical is still correct, right?

[Brigid]

3. That will be discussed in a future lesson.

:)

[Lilyhoney]

2. Eggcorns

Eggcorns aren’t necessarily errors at all. Instead, they are a type of language evolution, and they are being closely monitored by the people who make our dictionaries; even if you can’t find your eggcorn there right now, you might soon. The seemingly impossible mission of the Oxford English Dictionary, for example, is to record the entire history of the English language. The OED uses something called the Oxford English Corpus to get a handle on current usage. The Corpus—a constantly evolving collection of texts including novels, newspapers, blogs, and chat rooms—contains 2 billion English words (though almost 100 million of those words are “the”) and gives the OED the best possible look at how people are using language. It also shows how common some eggcorns are, beating out the original (“correct”) terms in countless incidents. The adoption of these eggcorns indicates that eventually they won’t be considered errors at all, and many are already accepted variants.

http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Stimuli/mark_peters_on_eggcorns

I thought you might like this.

Lilyhoney

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. Apparently you have not met:

He is the reason we spell it this way.

[Brigid]

5. He's a Cardinals fan.

What do you expect? :rofl:

[UrbScotty]

13. 1908

Just sayin'.

(Go Tigers!)

[datasuspect]

6. and it is "dependent" not "dependant"

[Dr. Strange]

7. Good call.

A dependant, according to the wiki, is "any party who is required to answer the complaint of a plaintiff or pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court, or any party who has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute."

[WinkyDink]

9. defendant?

[Dr. Strange]

10. No, dependant!

Jeez, can't you spel?

[Lil Missy]

8. Are you series??

[juajen]

11. Hey, I'm the spelling police.

I think I'm gonna arrest you for impersonating a police officer.

juajen

[SOteric]

12. Nah. "Moran" is one of our little DU in-jokes.

If you're looking for a frequently incorrect spelling, I'm going to recommend a whole week-long feature on 'definitely.' Which definitely isn't spelled 'definately.'

[pokerfan]

14. I just googled images for "moran"

with safeSearch off and my 'puter lit up with pron.

Anyway, I was looking for this: