[Closed] Anyone have a word they just seemingly have never been able to spell?!

Corollary.

I can't even say the bloody thing, despite it being in quite frequent use in the scientist's vernacular.

Had to Google it (genuinely thought it was heart related... I know,I know...) and I can confidently say I am good to go with not knowing that one! I do feel your pain though !

Febuary.

Hmmm... No I think I'm ok with that one actually.

"Beautiful" used to be an issue but at some point I got my head around it.*

*Thigh I do still have to phonetically spell it to myself if I'm writing it down still!

Unecassary, often dont even get close enough for a spell check suggestion.

QED!

“Beautiful” used to be an issue but at some point I got my head around it.*

I've got Jim Carey in The Mask guise to thank for that: B. E. A. Uuuutiful!

Receipt..

In fact the whole i-before-e t’ing.

Fgghjjjggf and cvvvjkfd. Always get them wrong.

Covfefe

Separate - I always type seperate first.

parallell  or parallel or paralell

Might often gets me, my brain just locks up. And separate of course

Abouve - blasted phonics!

Dioria, diarhera....the shits

Altantic.

I’m an oceanographer...

Necessary - I cant even get it close enough for spell check to pick it up sometimes!

Weird/wierd

Keith/Kieth

*Ible *able *eble

Queue is also a good one.

Asses assess asess access.

Its a long list. Made worse by the fact that i am a terrible typer find it impossible to find mistakes when proof reading. I have a suspicion i'm mildly dyslexic.

Definitley

On.

Manoeuvre

eight and people I stuggle with.  I usually use "folk" not "people" when writing

Guarantee. (Just had to google it then)

90% of the time I type the word just I type it as jsut, not sure why - I know how to spell it but possibly something to do with the key positions makes me type it as jsut

“Gauge” is one I always struggle with

Maintenance.  I get it wrong every single time until spell check takes over.

I used to struggle with necessary until i learnt

Never Eat Cakes Eat Some Salad And Remain Young

Calendar and separate

Lebensmittelvergiftung

Ophthalmology...

There's just too many "Hs" in there. Which is a pain as it's the largest specialism I manage.

Ocaisonally, Occassionally, Occ.....   Now and then.

Oh and Grauniad.

Dislexic and nessersary

I defenitely always have a problem with definitely

My new job title is “Community Liaison”. It was a week after starting before I realised there were two “I”s in liaison.

Rachel

Resteront

Necessary used to be one that got me until someone told me to remember it with "Never Eat Cress, Eat Sausage Sandwiches And Remain Youthful"

eight and people I stuggle with.

....and stuggle apparently. Seems to be a struggle. 😉

I read Economics at Uni, started in 1988 so for me everything was hand written. My first assignment had the word Government spelled Goverment about 25 times. Each corrected in Red ink. What an idiot!!!

That lecturer turned out to be an arse BTW.

antidisestablishmentarianism

Cwmystwyth, Caersws

Rhossili, rhythm

rhythm

Rhythm helps your two hips move

I've actually got to think about it whenever I need to write Technician. I really want to spell it 'Technitian'.

Craig - Lab Technician

Some teacher at school taught us "It is necessary to wear one coat and two socks", and ever since I always pause over 'necessary' and say to myself "one coat, two socks" (one C, two S's).

Also, I remember the difference between principle and principal by an episode of The Simpsons where Principal Skinner says "Remember, the Principal is your pal".

Nope, but I always thought that calling Dyslexia 'Dyslexia' was a tad cruel.

definitely!!

comes out as defiantly or definitively

(which I've had to spell check) hahaha

Restaurant - even getting close enough that spell check has an idea what I'm trying to say is a challenge

And brochure - looks wrong to me even when it's right.

My word is “for”. I can normally manage to spell 3 letter words but 9 times out of ten if I type it I’ll type “fro” instead.

For anyone struggling with "necessary" (as I used to do)

Just think of the number 1 & 2,

1 comes before 2 just like C comes before S in the alphabet. This gives correct order.

The numbers also give the correct number of letters, so 1 x c and 2 x s

HTHs. This is one word I have not spelt wrong since using this

My own name.

Lots of people know me as "Sturat"

I defenitely always have a problem with definitely

I’ve actually got to think about it whenever I need to write Technician. I really want to spell it ‘Technitian’.

With words like these, I find it helpful to consider root words (even if they're not actually roots).  Technician comes from 'technical' not technital.  Or think of Lego Technic.  'Definitely' has finite in there.

The ones that always give me pause are desperate and separate.  In my Lanky twang the vowels are homophones, why aren't they spelt the same?

Wether or whether, they both look wrong. Only weather gets the nod from me.

Drac

On.

You meant No didn't you Drac ? 😀

Apparantly I do .......

Lots of people in the medical profession can't spell "abscess. "

absence and practice.
and lots of things with double letters like tariff, recurring, address.

mainly words where there is no consistent application and I can't be arsed remembering.

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Lots of people in the medical profession can’t spell “abscess. “</span>

Presumably the second 's' is an 'n' ? 🙂

@theBees

weather = your local climate

whether = doubt/choice

wether = castrated tup

gauge - great i'm responsible for calibration so write it a lot!

colleague - mostly avoid it by writing the sentence differently.

Guarantee - The other day i'd typed it in a email 3 times, not convinced I'd spelt it right, i then googled it, only to be convinced i'f googled another work as it looked so wrong!

My spelling is generally fairly good, but there are some infrequently used words that catch me out, trouble is they’re so infrequent I can’t remember what they are!
Necessary is one that used to catch me, but my pad’s autospell lexicon now predicts it pretty accurately by context, which is handy!
Whether is another, it just looks [i]wrong[/i], but again the pad has learned it, and guaranteed has been learned as well.
It saves me a lot of scribbling on scraps of paper to figure out if I’ve got a word spelled correctly?

ftmch

orgo

otherwise I'm pretty good

Just found one, surreptitiously. Not a word I need to spell very often at all, but it cropped up for the candid conversation thread, fortunately when I highlighted it it took me to an online dictionary which gave me the correct spelling, mine was, well, a [i]bit[/i] rong...
(Goes looking for embarrassed emoji, spells embarrassed wrong, hangs head in shame...)

I struggle with Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch quite often, as well...

[b]supremebean[/b] wrote:

antidisestablishmentarianism

Is that something you often have a need to spell? Anyway, whilst it might seem difficult because it's long, it's actually very straightforward compared to some of the examples given.

Some of the words I struggle with have already been mentioned. The most obvious other one I struggle with is bouy - for similar reasons to guage.

Not strictly speaking a spelling thing, but I always struggle to work out whether to use affect or effect.

Maintenance ...which is an issue as I work for a Maintenance and Minor works team and have to type it about 20 times a day. I usually just copy it to the clipboard and Ctrl V it as I need it!

And THE!!  for some reason every time I type it I type it as "h t e "

I know how to spell it but ocassionally when I write it I get occasionally wrong. 🙂

Restaurant - had to use spell check.  I'm good otherwise at spelling, but my head doesn't get it for the important feeding station.

I'm with petrieboy and fossy for 'restaurant' for having to use spell check everytime

also, I know how it's spelt I can never type pipeline first time, it always comes out pipiene ... which isn't good when working in the oil and gas world.

... and now I don't know if it should have been 'spelt' or 'spelled'

Deteoriate ... or however you spell it😑

Man hoovering presents problems, in addition to the fact I hate doing it and the living room carpet is filthy.

Drac wins. Under appreshiated.