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A lot vs. alot
Accell
Acquaintanceship
Administrate
Argumentative vs. argumentive
Boughten
Bursted
Conversate
Doubtlessly
Espresso vs. expresso
Fastly
Forty vs. fourty
Grinded
Heighth
Humorousness
Inclement vs. inclimate
Ironical
Irregardless
Lended vs. lent

Longetivity vs. longevity
Midrift (midriff)
Mischievous vs. mischievious
Oftentimes
Orientate
Quelch vs. squelch
Ridded
Righten
Seldomly
Shed vs. shedded
Smoothe, smoothen
Some way vs. someway
Spreaded
Supposably
Sweat vs. sweated
Thrust, thrusted
Thusly
Undoubtably vs. undoubtedly

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