It will come as no surprise to readers that spelling is not one of my strongest attributes. I stand firmly alongside AA Milne's Winnie the Pooh when the bear admits: "My spelling is wobbly. It's good spelling, but it wobbles and the letters get in the wrong place." I know the feeling well.
I admit to regularly using the traditional "I before E except after C" rhyming rule, although admittedly there are many exceptions. And I still struggle over whether certain words may have have two "N"s, two "R"s or two "C"s.
So it was with some interest that I started reading a report from a survey by the Oxford University Press about the 20 most commonly misspelt words in the English language.
