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Are there any words that are a constant pain to spell right—that you can't seem to get right no matter how many times you try to memorize it? This isn't an experience that I've had but I'd be very interested in hearing your stories :)

aerial
ariel
aeriel

So I just type antenna. ;)

Weird? Wierd? ARGH! What the crap!?!?

I always spell 'incorrectly' incorrectly.

I can never remember whether it's necessary or neccesary. Every time I look it up, I forget.

Weird? Wierd? ARGH! What the crap!?!?
I used to have problems with that one too. It's spelled weirdly :)

I usually have trouble with Vehement... but only when I say Vehemently. I want to type Vetemantly, but I know it has an H, so I substitute a different word in.

I have many others, but I can't remember atm.

I've always had trouble with "apparently".

I always spell crispy and cream wrong.

*polishes her 5th grade spelling bee trophy*

I can never spell Bush and Intellegance correctly in the same sentance. Perhaps they are magnetic oppisates?

noggrann (uter adjective)
noggrant (neuter adjective as well as adverb)

framdeles (<- correct word)
framledes (<- "non-existent" word that people still use a lot in spoken language that's easy to get into your written one when you're not paying attention)

omständlig (usually pronounced "omständig" without the "l," which is easy to forget when writing)
öppenhjärtig (usually pronounced "öppenhjärtlig" with an "l," which is easy to superfluously add when writing)

Anthropomorphic personification... i always get the p's and m's muddled

Separate
sentence
the previously mentioned "weird" -

my spelling has gotten progressively worse as I've gotten older. I'm waiting for the day I routinely mispronounce words like my mother does.

I can never spell Bush and Intelligence correctly in the same sentence. Perhaps they are magnetic opposites?



Corrections in bold. Yes, I am a terrorist to this thread :D

Misspell, specifcally, prentcious.


(spelt how I normally spell them)

Misspell, specifcally, prentcious.


(spelt how I normally spell them)
That's how you should spell misspell

nessecarily.

nessecarily.

necessarily

adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"

See?

Told ya.

My spelling so happens to be impeccable. :p

I dotn haev speeling prablems

nessecarily.

Thats the only word that gets me.... but I've almost stopped using it as a result heh.

Oh and well I guess the word "nice" counts since my fingers seem to not like the order they come out of the keyboard. I can't imagine counting the hundreds of times I've been typing only to see ncie on my screen when I look at it.

OK here goes..
(did i spell that right?)

orgasamanisms?
organisems?
oraganisms?
.....
personifacation?
personification?
.....
bored
boared
board
beard
bared
bord
borad
borred
.....OK in that list #1,2,6,7,8 were all trying to spell the thing where youv got nothing to do...
oh and you'v...lol
....
minuits?
minits?
minuts?
minutes?
.... i think its the last one.

speling?....thats the worst one...lol

gereatric?
geriatric?
garyatric?
geryatric?

forward?
forwerd?
backward?
backwerd?

dysleckik?
dyslexik?
dislexik?
dislecksic?
dislecsic?
disleksic?

As you can tell i am Dyslexsick.....lol
...oh and i get like and lick micksed up...awckward in letters....lol thats not right is it..

The only one I'm aware of at the moment is amount (sp?)...

I'm really bad at spelling but I used to be a journalist so it was part of the job.

However there was one trick I learnt to help with a word that came earlier in this thread

Never Eat Cakes. Eat Strawberry Shortbread And Remain Young.
Necessary.

President J

Rhythmn, I can never spell that word right. Is that how you spell it or not I dont know

Rhythmn, I can never spell that word right. Is that how you spell it or not I dont know
Nope. Rhythm

I keep spelling village as 'villiage'.

Are there any words that are a constant pain to spell right—that you can't seem to get right no matter how many times you try to memorize it? This isn't an experience that I've had but I'd be very interested in hearing your stories :)
Thanks man.

Beauty
Chocolate
Weird-apparently it goes against the i before e rule.

I think i spelt them right.*Unsure*
Rotavia cant spell no(know)LOL :p

I keep spelling village as 'villiage'.French helped me with that. It was "vee-laaj" and not "vee-lee-aaj" and that's how I remember it...

Thanks man.

Beauty
Chocolate
Weird-apparently it goes against the i before e rule.

I think i spelt them right.*Unsure*
Rotavia cant spell no(know)LOL :pDo you mean Rotovia? :p

i can never spell embarressment right(did i just spell it wrong there?i looks alright)so i just say mortified instead.its a lil harsher but seeing as i usually mort myself a lot it works for me

im fine at spelling now, except for some of the common ones which have already been said, but when i was younger i always got 'b' and 'd' the wrong way round, so bed would become deb, etc.

Prety Mutch al ov thim.

I have trouble spelling the word 'receive.' I'm not even sure if its right now, and I think the fundamental problem is that I struggle to remember that rule (what is it, i before e except after c?).

I also struggle with the word professional. I think that's how its spelt.

I have trouble spelling the word 'receive.' I'm not even sure if its right now, and I think the fundamental problem is that I struggle to remember that rule (what is it, i before e except after c?).

I also struggle with the word professional. I think that's how its spelt.Receive follows the i before e rule. Weird is one of the words that doesnt...

Do you mean Rotovia? :p
:p
I missed the - too. :rolleyes:

He cant spell Harlesburg either!LOL
unless he really was talking about Harlsburg....

:eek: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/harlesburg/mynation.jpg)

"hincho", synonim of "cutre". It is pronounced "jincho", but I don't know how to write it. Jincho? Hincho? Or gincho? :confused:

I could never remember how to spell "with", I always misplaced the h

(I'm not a native speaker)

I can never spell Bush and Intellegance correctly in the same sentance. Perhaps they are magnetic oppisates?
how ironic

Seks

Millenium. Someone please correct me!

Millenium. Someone please correct me!
Millennium. Happy now?

I never mispell words!!!
that was intentional for those who caught it

I have to look up "Manoeuvre" (or "Maneuver") every time I want to use it. Doesn't help that it has two correct spellings. There are a few others, but that's the worst one.

Edit: Oh, and I always want to spell "Maintenance" as "Maintainance". Looks like nearly 1.6 million pages (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=maintainance&meta=) make the same mistake...

I can never spell Bush and Intellegance correctly in the same sentance. Perhaps they are magnetic oppisates?


hahahahaha


Sometimes I mess up words when I have to add on prefixes or suffixs to them, and then there's this one other word I forget who to speel but I forgot what the word is.

Edit: make that two, the one I forgot, and then when typing I always mess up "spell", as you can see above.

There's one word that nearly everyone (including over 90% of University graduates) spells incorrectly. Any ideas what it is?

I always have trouble with ""epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään"...

...which is the longest word in the Finnish language and translates to English as "even with their lack of ability to disorganize".

I use it every day, of course... ;)

I always have trouble with ""epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään"...
No idea why you would. It fair rolls off the tongue.

There's one word that nearly everyone (including over 90% of University graduates) spells incorrectly. Any ideas what it is?No...

Seks
:rolleyes:

@Demented Hamsters: incorrectly?

I always have trouble with ""epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään"...

...which is the longest word in the Finnish language and translates to English as "even with their lack of ability to disorganize".

I use it every day, of course... ;)
You forgot -köhän from the end. ;)

:rolleyes:

@Demented Hamsters: incorrectly?
Well done! You get a cookie!
(Prepares self for the groans and eye-rolly smileys heading my way)

Well done! You get a cookie!
(Prepares self for the groans and eye-rolly smileys heading my way)
*groan* :rolleyes:

Satisfied now? :D

*go sits in a corner and nibbles on cookie*

Ah, another such word. Is it 'nibbles' or 'nipels'?

There's one word that nearly everyone (including over 90% of University graduates) spells incorrectly. Any ideas what it is?

Neccassery?

(Or however you spell it:()

I can never spell Bush and Intellegance correctly in the same sentance. Perhaps they are magnetic oppisates?
Stop smamming the forums.

There's one word that nearly everyone (including over 90% of University graduates) spells incorrectly. Any ideas what it is?

graduate?

Neccassery?

(Or however you spell it:()

Necessary. One cup, two sugars.

My evil ex, quite a good speller overall, regularly misspelled "disappear" and "bizarre" as "dissapear" and "bizzare." I could never figure out how he came up with either of those, especially the former, seeing as he had no trouble correctly spelling "appear."

I'm a pretty good speller, but like everyone else, I misspell words from time to time. I don't regularly misspell words, though, because once I look up the spelling, it's stored in my brain foreveeeer.

i mispeyl so mainy wurds itz know yous righting thehm all heer.

bureaucracy. Such a jumble of letters...

I always have trouble with ""epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään"...

...which is the longest word in the Finnish language and translates to English as "even with their lack of ability to disorganize".

I use it every day, of course... ;)
mee too mee too!

I tend to misspell it epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkään, as I pronounce it that way. It seems the problem is with the fact that the Pohjanmaa dialect transforms half-long vowels into full-blown over-long vowels, and as I hear that a lot, I tend to imitate. Notice the vowel length of the -lla marker preceding -nsa in that, or a word like suurentetelemattomuudellansa.

Another pain in the ass is "tälläinen", which IS the correct spelling, but some complain that -lainen is an enclitic and does not conform to vowel harmony, so it'd be "tällainen". This is just a weird "correct" spelling and even Googlefight agrees that the intuitive "tälläinen" is the winner.

In English, "syllabification" (syllabLification) and pronunciation (pronoUnciation), because the stem changes, syllabl- into syllab- and noun- into nun-.

I always have trouble with ""epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään"...

...which is the longest word in the Finnish language and translates to English as "even with their lack of ability to disorganize".

I use it every day, of course... ;)

Well I'm told that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word. A kind of lung disease I believe. Not to hard to spell i think ;)

That's how you should spell misspell
Score!

Well I'm told that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word. A kind of lung disease I believe. Not to hard to spell i think ;)
It's very easy to spell, because it's not a single word, but many words written together, pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis.

That järjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään cannot be divided to words, it's a single word. The last -llänsäkään are grammatical clitics, meaning "also with his", but the rest (järjestelmällistyttämättömyys) is the root (something like "systematizationlessness"). It can be analyzed only as a compound of derivational morphemes, but not much more.

It's very easy to spell, because it's not a single word, but many words written together, pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis.

That järjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään cannot be divided to words, it's a single word. The last -llänsäkään are grammatical clitics, meaning "also with his", but the rest (järjestelmällistyttämättömyys) is the root (something like "systematizationlessness"). It can be analyzed only as a compound of derivational morphemes, but not much more.

Is this word used commonly or one of those annoying words that only eggheads use to show their intellectual superiority?

Praerie.

Actual spelling Prairie.

My spelling is always flawliss.

Is this word used commonly or one of those annoying words that only eggheads use to show their intellectual superiority?
It's an extreme example, to show the full extent of the possibilities of agglutination.

On the other hand, long words are typically used by anyone. If you don't believe, see this:
http://www.mp-foorumi.com/forum/showa.php?fid=1&tid=4819&fpage=
(motorcycle talk)

(maybe "merkityksettömyydessään")

My spelling is always flawliss.

Aye, flawless it be ;)

It's an extreme example, to show the full extent of the possibilities of agglutination.

On the other hand, long words are typically used by anyone. If you don't believe, see this:
http://www.mp-foorumi.com/forum/showa.php?fid=1&tid=4819&fpage=
(motorcycle talk)

(maybe "merkityksettömyydessään")

Well I guess some languages have really long words in everyday conversation. I've seen some annoyingly long German words that trying to pronounce will take a bit of effort.

I usually misspell Beginning... How many Ns and Gs? Gah!

I do get made fun of for spelling "Color" "Colour" and "Theater"
Theatre

When I type fast I just always type 'jsut' and 'alwasy' :(

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

I never spell it right.

Weird? Wierd? ARGH! What the crap!?!?
exactly even I have same doubt....I always look up the dictionary for that. lol weird isnt it?

exactly even I have same doubt....I always look up the dictionary for that. lol weird isnt it?
Yeah, weird. I just remember it goes from left to right on the keyboard while typing (the first three letters, that is).

Parallel (Parrallel)
Necessary (Nessecary)

Fish (Ghoti) :)
Can anyone remember how that works?
Gh = F, see Tough/Enough
Ti = Sh, see Attention

Necessary.

I've used 'I's, I've used multiple 'c's, and I've mutilated it enough that Word couldn't figure it out.

I misspelled it so much I've memorized it now. >_>

Parallel (Parrallel)
Necessary (Nessecary)

Fish (Ghoti) :)
Can anyone remember how that works?
Gh = F, see Tough/Enough
Ti = Sh, see Attention

And "O" as in "Women".

I can understand French to perfection, I can roughly speak it with some degree of ease, but I cannot spell properly in it. I have no idea of how the accents are supposed to apply!
(Any spelling problems should be excused, English is not my first language)

"Banana" can never be spelled "correctly"

I don't have that problem, but I'm always getting emails from people spelled weirdly!! It annoys me!!!


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I don't have that problem, but I'm always getting emails from people spelled weirdly!! It annoys me!!!


http://www.DollWar.com/?p=profile&area=link&id=196817



Please visit the above site. It means a lot to me.
Dude. WTF? :eek:

And "O" as in "Women".

Sweet mate, thanks.

I was spelling business wrong for, like, half my life. (Buisness)

And I know there's a bunch of other random, seldom-used words, but I can't think of any.

Are there any words that are a constant pain to spell right—that you can't seem to get right no matter how many times you try to memorize it? This isn't an experience that I've had but I'd be very interested in hearing your stories :)
pencil

Seriously. I had to spell check it before I posted. I can never remember if it's got a "c" or an "s".

Norwegian/Norwiegan/Norweigan/Norwegain. I think the first one´s right?

Sympathy.