Commonly misspelled English words is a very common error; the following words from the list are all good English words, though often incorrectly used in place of their homophones: Spell checkers do not detect incorrect use of homophones. Personal names and surnames may be pronounced like a standard English word, but with different spelling: "balance" and "John Ballance"; "war" and "Evelyn Waugh"; "marshal" and "George Marshall". Personal names do, of course, generally start with a capital letter. A misspelling in English might be made by someone used to a different spelling in another language; for example, "address" is translated "adresse" in French and German.
Representation (arts) example, in English the written letter "a" represents different phonetic sounds depending on which word it is written in. The letter "a" has a different sound in the word in each of the following words, "apple", "gate", "margarine" and "beat", therefore, how is a person unaware of the phonemic sounds, able to pronounce the word properly by simply looking at alphabetic spelling. The way the word is represented on paper is not always the way the word would be represented phonetically. This leads to common misrepresentations of the phonemic sounds of speech and suggests that the writing system does not