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Today, in my research, I was reminded of the day the word “google” officially became a verb in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary – July 6, 2006. Having been declared the “most useful” word of the year in 2002 by the American Dialect Society, many of us were already using it as a verb, so it was great news to me when it became an official, proper verb! (I like using official, proper words.)

Typos

All of us know that typos occur frequently in our writing and use of the keyboard, but have you ever thought about a “wordo”? The typo is a much more accidental occurrence than a wordo, I think. You may know the difference in “to” and “too,” but just easily overlook the spelling. Typos are sneaky little pests and difficult to catch in our proofreading too.

Wordos

A wordo is the lack of knowing which word is appropriate for the sentence one is writing – a much different situation than a simple typing error, at least in my opinion. Many people just clearly do not know the difference in “affect” and “effect” or when to use “their” vs. “there.” So these don’t fall into the typo category. You just have to learn the difference if you want to use these words correctly.

So now there is a cool new word we can use, though it hasn’t made it to the dictionary as far as I know, but appropriate and useful it is! “Wordo” – don’t you love it?

My online class will appreciate this information, I’m sure. We’ve just been studying confusing pairs of words. Don’t you think studying “wordos” sounds like a lot more fun? I do, and I am glad to have made this discovery today, thanks to this article by Professor Wordo .

We should start a petition to add “wordo” to the dictionary – anybody know where to begin with that?