Известно, что английское правописание отличается особой сложностью. Написание многих слов нужно просто запомнить наизусть.
Стелла Коттрел приводит следующие английские слова, с правописании которых англичане чаще всего допускают ошибки. Думаю, что этот список можно использовать для самопроверки. Приведенные английские слова мы используем достаточно часто в самых разных областях жизни.
A - accessible, accessory, accommodation, across, acquaintance, acquiesce, acquire, address, aggressive, all right, amateur, analogy, analyse (Can you analyse this data?), analysis (Make an analysis of the facts), appendices, appropriate, argument.
B - belief (my belief), believe (I believe), beneficial, benefited, business.
C - catalogue, category, changeable, commitment, committed, committee, conscientious, conscious, criticism.
D - deferred, definite, definitely, discriminatory.
E - equipped, embarrass, exaggerate, excellent, existence.
F - February, focused, focusing, foreign, forty, fourten, fulfil, fulfilled.
G - gauge, government, grateful, guarantee.
H - height, honorary, humorous.
I - immediately, immovable, inconsistent, independent, irresponsible.
L - laboratory, liaise, lose (I don’t want to lose my bag), loose (The knot is too loose).
M - maintenance, manageable, manoeuvre, miscellaneous.
N - naive, necessary, negligible, noticeable.
O - occasionally, occur, occurred, omission, omitted.
P - parallel, privileged, probably, procedure, professional, psychological.
R - receipt, receive, recommend, referred, relevant, repetition, reputation, resistant.
S - scene, secretary, separate, similar, skilful, skilfully, social, successfully, syllabus, synthesis (It was a good synthesis), synthesise (He synthesised the main point).
T - technicality, temporary, theoretical, through.
U - unnecessary, until, usually.
V - veterinary.
