alantm,

I often spell my husband name as brain instead of Brian lol.

Homophones are my pet hate, they are similar sounding words, with different spelling, shear/sheer, stairs/stares, suite/sweet, tern/turn, to/too/two, raise/rays, sore/soar/saw, your get the picture. I had to get the dictionary out to make sure spelt them right.

Up until about two years ago I would often write pacific instead of specific, (and a few other words) I could not work out why the teachers/lectures would underline the word, with a question mark, it was only when a friend proof read an assignment for me, that I found out why lol.

February

this word looks wrong the more i look at it
i was born in this month

Feb ru ary

Wednesday

Wed nes day odd

busy - i spell this like buisness
buisy but its wrong

minute -i mix this up with minuet

neighbor - i now know if its an "A sound" but has an e its "ei" spelling

wrong = worng
when =wehn
michael =micheal
what=waht
could=cloud
and well anything that looks alike

these are all like mine

i have made myself a few lessons on these things
but !!!! i forget and still get confused

I would say all of the above and

any word with an el or le ending and

any word with a es or se ending.

I mix them up all the time

sad but true.

yes the el le thing is crazy
most times even when its right it looks really wrong
im trying to get used to the ones i get wrong
and know they will be wrong ..if you know what i mean
like wrong and worng ect
even mean = meen ? i know one is bad attitude

and the word one ..i always go for wone

again always how and who ....i even had to fix it doing this post !!

sumtimes i spill reel gud but others i dont. i spill gud when i stop and reed it agan and agan ovr and over. it gits anoying. i no how the wurds r spilled cuz i been tot but if im just goin my brian dont make the connecshon. i hate reedin my stuf cuz it makes me feel stupid. :-(

Spelling and typing dyslexia
I am more likely to miss type the words not miss spell it. I mean I may know full well how to spell the word. I am not a very good typist but my fingers think I am. Boy! Are they ever wrong! If I am writing with a pen I do not miss spell as many common words. I will miss spell big words. But then who would know I miss spelled them , my hand writing is so bad not even I can tell what I wrote even if I spelled it correctly. I type almost every thing, So I can use spell check. Even here on DS, I will
Type my comments in a Word document and spell check and all that. Then cut and paste it back to DS. Other wise no one could read what my speed demon finger typed. I have to look at the key board to type. And even then I hit the wrong keys or put letters in the wrong order. I am whispering the word and it letters as I type and looking for the letter on the keyboard. So I am not looking at the screen. When I do look up, OH MY, MY! What is all that gibberish? It takes my a long time to get thing in order so you can possibly read what I typed.

ALSO there are the words that sound alike but are spelled different

clothes ..... close
red ... read
read ....reed
sea... see
pea... pee

also doubble letter words tt ll oo pp bb ss

words ending with ant or ent

words that sound like the start with F but really start with PH

word with silent letters almost every letter in the alphbet can be used as a silent letter. makes it hard to sound out a word

does the words end with a T or ED

http://www.confidentreader.com/?gclid=CLq8kZeR5JsCFSQeDQodLD2xAg

This program looks like it might help a lot of us read and spell better..
It is called Comfident reader
There is even a professional version

dose n does

funny thing my middle names is Michael, and i spelled it Micheal all my life until i turn 45 . isn't that funny :0