Why is every other person on the internet misspell elixir as elixer? :)

[chitz]

Originally Posted by bancika

It's not like it's a made up word or intentionally misspelled to make a brand name. Yet still, many spell it wrong. And it's usually native speakers who make the mistake. Why is that?

I'm not a native speaker and in my language, it's always spelled (and pronounced) with "i", so it feels natural to write it like that in English, but for natives it apparently is not.

Cuz wee dun kare! We be busy wif our reel problems, not sum silly speeling.

[zabdart]

Because spelling is not a requirement for graduating high school in America! It should be a requirement for getting into high school but it isn't.

[mc1]

i'd guess because in english it's pronounced with an "e" sound.

elix·ir

noun \i-ˈlik-sər\ .
: a magical liquid that can cure illness or extend life
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elixir

[ewalling]

Originally Posted by mc1

i'd guess because in english it's pronounced with an "e" sound.

Not in the English what I speak ...

[mc1]

Originally Posted by ewalling

Not in the English what I speak ...

i cannot know of which the english that you speaketh.

the link what i gave has a soundfile throughout which someone is pronouncing it:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elixir

and here is a list of whereby it contains a large number of rhyming words:
http://rhymebrain.com/en/What_rhymes_with_elixir.html

the elixir mixture was a richer tincture, bitter and unfamiliar, made without filter or filler, used to bewilder hither and thither, and to transfigure the neurotransmitter of the stiffer drinker.

Originally Posted by mc1

i'd guess because in english it's pronounced with an "e" sound.

Originally Posted by ewalling

Not in the English what I speak ...

ewalling, so you pronounce the "er" in dinner differently than the "ir" in elixir? If so, how?

[RichM752]

Because some people have difficulty sbelling.

[Long Jon]

Originally Posted by GraceGuitars

ewalling, so you pronounce the "er" in dinner differently than the "ir" in elixir? If so, how?

I think we probably do pronounce it differently in Britain.
Not exactly an everyday conversational word, so hard to think of examples, but NOT like in "dinner", more as though it were spelled "Elixeyer", if that makes any sense.

Originally Posted by Long Jon

I think we probably do pronounce it differently in Britain.
Not exactly an everyday conversational word, so hard to think of examples, but NOT like in "dinner", more as though it were spelled "Elixeyer", if that makes any sense.

Yes, that makes sense. But note how to convey that, you used the letter e, which goes back to mc1's point of how phonetically, the misspelling "elixer" is understandable. I'm a visual speller, though, and that misspelling just looks awkward to me

[Long Jon]

Originally Posted by GraceGuitars

Yes, that makes sense. But note how to convey that, you used the letter e, which goes back to mc1's point of how phonetically, the misspelling "elixer" is understandable. I'm a visual speller, though, and that misspelling just looks awkward to me

I actually thought the correct spelling of that word was "elixyr" 'til I looked it up. Actually, like yourself, I could just see it looked wrong after I had written it.
I thought "Elixir" was a trademark.
I don't know where I got that apart from the sound, probably never had to write it in my life, until describing what strings I didn't like !

[Coffeeaddict]

Originally Posted by Long Jon

I actually thought the correct spelling of that word was "elixyr" 'til I looked it up. Actually, like yourself, I could just see it looked wrong after I had written it. I thought "Elixir" was a trademark.
I don't know where I got that apart from the sound, probably never had to write it in my life, until describing what strings I didn't like !

I could see it being spelt like that before common spellings became common. Seeing that spelling in Chaucer wouldn't shock me.

If you Google Elixyr you'll find it is a cigarette brand out of Luxembourg.