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If you can't spell it...

Russell Crowe: ''If you can't spell it, don't do it.''

- Russell Crowe on Twitter, June 9, 2011 quoted in the Daily Mail, June 19, 2011

 

"Circumcise" is derived from the Latin words meaning "cut around". It is nothing to do with sizing, nor with the "-ize" that means "to cause to become". The spelling with "-cis-" is as mandatory as in "incised", "incisive" and "incision", "decisive" and "decision", "concise", "precise" etc.

It might seem picky to pillory people who misspell "circumcise", but when someone says they've "done their research" without having picked up the spelling, something is wrong, as Russell Crowe pointed out.

 

For example:

''circumcize''

''circumsize''

Those (-ciz- and -siz-) are the commonest. 

Hereafter, alphabetical (disregarding "un-"):

ce-

spelll- cercomceshion

''cercomecision

''cercomesied''


spell-cercomsized-''autocorrected''

- "autocorrected" to insert four typos....

spell - (curcumsized), cercumaizion


spell-cercumcised

#10

spell-cercumsised

'cercumsized-cercumcision


''cercumsized ... cecumsized'


spelling - "cercomzied"

spell-uncerumvsised
cic-
spell-cicrumsiced

spell - cicrumcised
spell-poll-circum-siz

''cicrumsion''

''cicumcision'
spelling - cicumcision

spell-cicumsicion AND circumsion
20#
''cicumsised'

spell - cicumsized
circ-
''circimize'

''circimsized''
''circumsized/circimsized'

''circle''

spell: Circle Side

spelli - ''circmcision's ''
circo-
spell-circomsized (2)
spell - circomsized

''circomcism''

#30
circu-
"Bloodstained Men is an anti-circucision activist group. Brother K wants ... to encourage laws to be put in place to stop circucision."
- Brianna Cook, WGXA, September 30, 2022, 0:44

spelling - circucizion

spell-circuimcised+circuimsiced

''circucise''


spell-circuncision

circum-
spell-circum sized
circumci-
spell-circumcicum

''circumcession'
spell-circumcession (2)

circumcis-
(The only correct spellings, circumcise, circumcised, circumcising, circumcision, go here.)

spell - circumcisezed

spell-circumcisition

spell - circumcisiton - Times of Israel!
- Hayim Leiter, "The New Yorker's Botched Circumcision article", Times of Israel, October 7, 2021
#40
spell-circumcisium

spell - circumcisize 4
''circumcisized'
spell - uncircumcicised
spell-circumcisized 3
spell-circumcisssion circumcizzed
circumcit-
spell- ''circumcition'' again
circumciz-
soekk-circumcizion
circumcu-
spell-circumcumsized
#50
circume-
spell-(un)circumed

''circumed sized'

spell - circumferenced

spell-circumisice
circums-
spell-circumscion

spell - circumscised

spell-''circumscission''
''circumscizion'

''circumscribed'

''circumscription'
spell- circumscription (2)
#60
'circumscrised'

spell-circumsice pines
- and an extra mark for "pines"
''circumsicing''
''circumed sized'
spelling ''CIRCUMCSICED''

''circumsicion'
spell- circumsicion
spell-circumsicion-ric

''circumsicison'

spell-circumsicsion

''circumsides''

spell-circumsies
spell-circumsied, again
''circumsions''

spell - circumsiscin

''circumsise''
spell-''circumsision''
#70
''circumsission'
spell-circumsission 2

''circumsition'

circumsiz- has already been noted, but this example - the J. Paul Getty Museum catalogue's entry for Robert Mapplethorpe's famous photo, "Man in a Polyester Suit" - is astonishing (and unnecessary).
spell-uncircumsized-Getty
spell-uncircumsized-Getty-detail


''circumsozed'

''circumspection''
spell - circumspection

spelling: ''circumssion''
circumst-
''circumstancing''
spell - circumstanced


spell-circumstised
   
 And of course...
''circumstition''

spell-circumsusr

''circumused'
#80
spell - circumzied
spell-circumzied

''circumzised'

circun-
spell - circuncized

circus-
spell-circus

spelling - circuscision

spell- ''circusiced''

''circusim''

spell-circus sized
circy
spell-circy
(Strictly speaking not a misspelling, an odious euphemism, but "un-circy" is unusual)
cirm-
spell-cirmcised
#90
spell-cirmsection

spell - cirmumise

''uncirmusized'

cirscum-
spell -cirscumsided
cirum-
spell-cirumcisim

spell- cirumsized
spell-cirumsized
cirx-
spell - cirxumcision

''cirxumsizing''

cis-

spell-ciscumcised

spell-ciscumsized
#100
cit-
spell-citcumsized
co-
''corcumcise'
spell ''corcumcized''

spell-anti-corcumsicers
cr-
spell - un-cricumsised

spell - "criticism"

cu-
''curc.'

spell - curiomsion

spelling: curcumcisied

spell-curcumcision (2)
spell-curcumcised
''curcumcise''

spell ''curcumcisized''
  #110
''curcumcism''

spell-"curcumcizeing

spell-curcumsised
spell-curcumsised (2)

spell-curcumsized
''curcumsize'

spell-curicumcsion
s-
spell- ''sercomsized''
(With 3 consonants and 2 vowels changed, is this a record?)
''sercumsicion'

spell: sercum sized

spell- Sercumsize

si-
spell-sircumsized
#120
su-
spell- surcumsis
vi-
spell-(un)vircumsized

(121 different misspellings)

 

 

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