One Hundred Spelling Demons of the English Language*
which | been |
writing |
country |
ready |
guess |
choose | early | very | read |
their | since | heard | February | forty | says | tired | instead | none | said |
there | used | does | know | hour | having | grammar | easy | week | hoarse |
separate | always | once | could | trouble | just | minute |
through | often | shoes |
donÕt | where | would | seems | among | doctor | any | every | whole | tonight |
meant | women | canÕt | Tuesday | busy | whether | much | they |
wonÕt |
wrote |
business |
done | sure | wear | built | believe | beginning | half | cough |
enough |
many | hear | loose | answer | color | knew | blue | break | piece | truly |
friend | here | lose | two | making | laid | though | buy | raise | sugar |
some | write | Wednesday | too | dear | tear | coming | again | ache | straight |
*W. Franklin Jones,
Concrete
Investigation of the Material of English Spelling
(Vermillion, South Dakota: University of South Dakota, 1913)
p.24