When I was younger, I couldn't spell the word privilege
to save my life. For whatever reason, I just couldn't learn the order
of the letters. I had to look it up every single time. Finally, one
day I decided to learn it, for once and for all, and I did. It was
simple, once I actually tried.
There's an epidemic of the privilege situation going on, and it spans
the globe. Working at a publishing company, I read a lot of proposals
and descriptions of books claiming they were indispensable. But they
were actually indispensible. The first few times I thought
nothing of it, because I wasn't sure how to spell that word. But then
when I saw it written the other (right) way, I figured it was just
another American/British English spelling difference. So I looked it
up, only to find that -ible doesn't even exist.
Since that revelation, I've come across the word countless times, and
there was always a 60/40 split, wrong to right. So now I'm just
stumped. Is this all a big conspiracy to get me to think I'm spelling
the word correctly but really I'm wrong? Or are entire countries
unaware of the word's proper spelling? Honestly I'm not sure which it
is.
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