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
#23901 di dice
#23902 week's weeks
#23903 donors donors'
#23904 rollercoaster roller-coaster
#23905 head count headcount
#23906 makes sure ensures
#23907 participants participant's
#23908 to install of installing
#23909 around of
#23910 seperately separately
#23911 short shortly
#23912 00 p 00p
#23913 But eventually Eventually
#23914 arrive arriving a
#23915 verify verifying
#23916 Scar Scary
#23917 is the was a
#23918 departmen department
#23919 include are included in
#23920 Ihis This
#23921 followups follow-ups
#23922 e source e-sourcing
#23923 achivements achievements
#23924 has include
#23925 steady steadily
#23926 re-scheduled rescheduled
#23927 Ok Thank Okay thank
#23928 9pm 9 : 00pm
#23929 unite unit
#23930 immediatly immediately
#23931 cleared clear
#23932 level headed level-headed
#23933 uo up
#23934 Steve I
#23935 then than what
#23936 to schedule scheduling
#23937 The other Other
#23938 fibers fiber
#23939 
Hope 
I hope
#23940 requiring required
#23941 advancing advance
#23942 manicure manicures
#23943 thanksgiving the Thanksgiving
#23944 Becos Because
#23945 a being
#23946 complementary complimentary
#23947 would seem seems
#23948 Delay The delay
#23949 extinguisher extinguishers
#23950 shamed ashamed
#23951 Next steps The next step
#23952 when when/if
#23953 of who is
#23954 – following Following
#23955 fix fixing
#23956 complexed complex
#23957 stem stems
#23958 why to Why
#23959 DSP DSPs
#23960 keep ! Keep
#23961 early exposed early-exposed
#23962 or did Did
#23963 is” is ”
#23964 perfect” perfect
#23965 imagining imagine
#23966 just was
#23967 LED's LEDs
#23968 I´m I can appear to be
#23969 Coralines Coraline's
#23970 and i so I
#23971 subject matter
#23972 self righteous self-righteous
#23973 how come Why are
#23974 rocks rock
#23975 women the woman The
#23976 launch lunch
#23977 wasent wasn't
#23978 commit committing
#23979 pick bring
#23980 children kids
#23981 type kinds
#23982 is living lives
#23983 councils council's
#23984 further forward
#23985 in results as a result
#23986 lastweek last week
#23987 it’s is a
#23988 Should I should
#23989 5 years 5-year
#23990 customer based customer-based
#23991 planning planned
#23992 happen has happened
#23993 questions queries
#23994 1 hr one hour
#23995 siad said
#23996 oneself himself
#23997 deliverbles deliverables
#23998 seen seems
#23999 Lot A lot
#24000 ready with writing this

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