Welcome back to Weekly Words. My name is Alicia and this week we're going to talk about commonly misspelled words.

I'm excited about this because I like catching misspellings.

Believe. To believe something just means to accept something as true or not true in the negative.

Believe is commonly misspelled. Do they spell it belive? Well, believe is commonly misspelled.

Don't do that. So if you're having trouble remembering the correct way to spell the word believe,

consider that the word lie is in the middle of the word, which is kind of counterintuitive if you've been paying attention to the weekly word series.

If you're trying to persuade a friend to do something, you might say,

please believe me, this is going to be the best party ever you have to come.

Okay.

The next is a lot.

This is commonly misspelled because people like to put the uh and the lot together.

It's actually two separate words, uh and lot. A lot just means a large number of something

or a large amount of something, many of something. In a sentence, you might say something like,

I have a lot of hobbies. I like skiing, snowboarding, and whitewater rafting. So just spell them

separately. Don't put it all together. Oh, the next, there, there, and there.

Students of English tend to be better about spelling these words than native speakers of English,

and I find that very interesting.

The first there, T-H-E-R-E, refers to a place, as in he lives over there.

The book is over there, somewhere other than where

you are right now.

The second form, T-H-E-I-R, is the possessive form of they, as in that's their house,

that's their dog, something that belongs to some other group of people.

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