Here’s something to bookmark. YourDictionary.com has a list of the 100 words they think are the most commonly misspelled words in English.

I think a number of them are more usage problems than spelling issues (e.g., conscious vs. conscience or its vs. it’s), but it’s hard to argue with much on their list. Until is the strangest one.

Accommodate is the one that always gets me. Don’t ask me why.

Continuing the tradition started by “It was a dark and stormy night,” the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest gives writers the chance to write (intentionally) the worst possible opening line of an imaginary novel.

You may spend countless hours at your desk believing your writing is the worst ever put down on paper or pixel. As long as this contest exists, you can rest assured that something out there is worse.

Here are the 2007 ‘winners’ along with more information about the contest.

It looks like entries for the 2008 contest are due April 15. Go intentionally write something bad and enter!