Words that you still struggle to remember how to spell?

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I have an A in English literature and language, and I would say that I have pretty proficient spelling capacity. However* there are some words that have just never stuck, and still have to Google the spelling. Every. Damn. Time.

Anyone else out there care to share their irritatingly spelled words?

I'll start with my most irritating one: diarrhoea. 😁

Haha, I tried to type A* but it made my paragraph randomly bold!

Acquire. I also have an English degree and write for a living but this one just won’t stick.

Broccoli (how many cs? How many ls?)
Calendar (calander? Calendar? Which way round?!)

Queue.

Also bought/brought. I always ge them right but just for a split second In have to say them out loud. Buy and Bring

Morrisons (the supermarket!)... How many S??

I give you license and my inability to spell it without crowbarring an s before the c, getting to the then second s, wondering why there are so many s's in the word now, perhaps the second s is actually a c?...give up, ask Alexa....wonder if I'll nail this slippy word before I'm dead.

Neice. Niece. See, it took me two goes. Don't know why.

I'm sure I heard a mnemonic for diarrhoea. Google throws up several, including Doesn't it always run really horribly over each ankle

Speech, I always want to write Speach.

Calendar. I always get mixed up with the town Callander.

Definately - which I always spell like that then need to correct.

Less to do with spelling and more to do with muscle memory, but when typing I always type Change as Chnage. Which is especially annoying as I work in IT and all we do is talk about chnages

Cannellini, can never remember which part the double 'n' goes!

Tenant (2 Ns or 3??)
Detached, I want to spell it detatched
I type hopsital every time

On a similar theme I have to Google the meaning of 'hubris' every single time I come across it which is not often enough to actually learn the meaning but often enough to be annoying!

exercise

Manoeuvre

Re: broccoli, I had trouble with this until a few years ago. I knew that with the Cs and Ls there was two of one and one of the other but could never remember which way round. Now I remember it by thinking that broccoli is Curly and Crunchy.

Pigeon
Practise or practice - which one to use when?
Palaeolithic - bit niche that's one!
Penicillin- ds1 is allergic so have to write it a lot

Also definitely:
Dim Ethel Found It Nearly Impossible To Eat Lumpy Yogurt

And necessary:
Never eat cake, eat salad sandwiches and remain young.

Oh yeah, manoeuvre - it's like the vowels had a party in the middle.

Embarrassing - I tend to swap out the second a for an e

For the longest time it was exercise (excersize?, excersise?) for me. It is ok now but even now I occasionally feel tempted to check with google! For old times sake.
And business. Was never sure if there are 2 S in the middle.

English is not my 1st language and people would often comment how flawless my spelling was. Love language and feel competent otherwise but those two would throw me for a loop every time.

yaught yauht yaucht yacht.
In my head it has a "u". Am I pronouncing it wrong?

Tidypidy: with practice/practice think of it as how you would use advice (noun) and advise (verb). You can hear the different type of 's' sound more easily with advice/advise.

I would also like to thank my English teacher Mrs Beauchamp for her mnemonics.

All of them! Embarrassing (one r? one s?), principle/principal, ingenious, hygiene, persuade ... those are the ones that come to mind, that I always have to look up. I have a PhD in English/History, but TBF I did drive my examiners absolutely round the twist because of the number of spelling errors.

I'm another one who struggles with manoeuvre. Sometimes even autocorrect struggles to recognise what I'm writing.

Also conscious.

I always spell diarrhoea wrong which is not great considering due to my job I have to write it in reports at least twice a week. Definitely also takes me a lot of concentration