Common mistakes in English

Over the last few years, we have corrected millions of words in the texts we have processed. Here, we present a list of common mistakes that we have found. The list is sorted according to the frequency with which we corrected the phrase. Not all corrections are present due to privacy concerns.

Position	Before	After
#16601	bully	bullying
#16602	forme	form
#16603	TCs	TC
#16604	didn’t	hadn’t
#16605	boughht	buy
#16606	is	has an
#16607	give	tell
#16608	denture	dentures
#16609	among	within
#16610	first aid	first-aid
#16611	marks	mark
#16612	that	of what
#16613	subsequently	subsequent
#16614	scan	scanned
#16615	faithful is	faithfuls are
#16616	proceed	processed
#16617	awake	awaken
#16618	prisons	prisoners
#16619	philosophy	philosophies
#16620	18 year old	18-year-old
#16621	soothe	soothes
#16622	that	their
#16623	As when	When
#16624	different	other
#16625	hand written	hand-written
#16626	During	during the
#16627	don’t	doesn't
#16628	end—	end
#16629	Chis	Chris
#16630	on starting	to start
#16631	recognised	recognize
#16632	responsability	responsibility
#16633	The group	Group
#16634	parts	areas
#16635	so that	which
#16636	which this	This
#16637	oppurtunities	opportunities
#16638	changed	switched
#16639	initiators	initiator's
#16640	grows	grow
#16641	modify	modification
#16642	have understood	understand
#16643	palate	palates
#16644	wealth	wealthy
#16645	this past	last
#16646	brothers	brother
#16647	scares	scars
#16648	whatcollege	what college
#16649	extend	be extended
#16650	facilitator	facilitators
#16651	89%	89 percent
#16652	to start	starting
#16653	discuss	be discussed
#16654	This	He
#16655	Xray	X-ray
#16656	I	that I'll
#16657	to the	of
#16658	profesional	professional
#16659	enquired	inquired
#16660	This	At this
#16661	We'v	We've
#16662	All the	The
#16663	lunch	launch
#16664	Thurs	Thursday
#16665	detailed	details
#16666	major	majoring
#16667	:	with
#16668	enable	implement
#16669	litter mates	litter-mates
#16670	stain	stained
#16671	strived	strove
#16672	years of	years'
#16673	A	There was a
#16674	to	on a
#16675	in your	into
#16676	suprising	surprising
#16677	attract	attracted
#16678	all	none
#16679	sin	in
#16680	in having	to have
#16681	cloth	clothing
#16682	releasing	release
#16683	«The	The
#16684	as a	in the
#16685	Checking	I'm checking
#16686	manly	mainly
#16687	As	and as
#16688	arrival	arrived
#16689	folder	folders
#16690	wasent	wasn't
#16691	breath	breaths
#16692	invention	inventions
#16693	and whoever	Whoever
#16694	Account	The account
#16695	long	great deal of
#16696	setting	to set
#16697	climbing	climb
#16698	Cheif	Chief
#16699	An	'An
#16700	opputunity	opportunity

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