Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems - Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y. - http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/twspell.html
A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words - An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words. - http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/error.html
The Problem of English Spelling - Article By Duncan MacGregor showing the anomalies in traditional English spelling and arguments for the need of spelling reform for the English language. Links. - http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa735/eng_sp.html
Variant Spellings in American English Dictionaries - An article by Cornell Kimball showing inconsistencies in spellings of many traditional American English words in different dictionaries of the English language. - http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/varsp.html