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What word are you simply unable to spell, no matter how much you try to memorise it?

123 replies

AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 31/03/2024 02:22

Mine is 'diarrhoea'. I can never ever remember how to spell it, it's only correct here because I googled!

What is your word nemesis that refuses to allow you to remember the spelling of?

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MadamVastra · 31/03/2024 02:24

Forty fourty

coxesorangepippin · 31/03/2024 02:32

February

FatFilledTrottyPuss · 31/03/2024 02:32

My friend taught me how to spell diahrroea with this rhyme. Diahrroea in a hurry run run or else accident.
I'm pretty sure I still got it wrong though as your spelling looks correct and mine doesn’t Confused
Maybe it’s Diarrhoea In A Rush Run Hurry Or Else Accident.
A different friend and I have started writing letters to each other and apparently I’ve forgotten how to spell pretty much everything in real handwriting now.

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anareen · 31/03/2024 02:38

Restaurant!

I get so frustrated that I still have trouble with it as an adult.

AllTheChaos · 31/03/2024 02:43

That one that you wrote, op! I have tried three times to write it in this post and got it so wrong even spell check didn’t know what I meant to put - I give up!

FirstFallopians · 31/03/2024 02:43

Restaurant- every way I write it it just looks wrong!

Necessary- I feel another S would enhance its vibes.

pambeesleyhalpert · 31/03/2024 03:01

Autumn

wandawaves · 31/03/2024 03:04

Diarrhoea as well. I'm a nurse so should know how to spell it. So now I just write BO type 7 😆 which tbh is more accurate anyway.

Rolypolyfishheads · 31/03/2024 03:06

Liaise (thanks phone for auto spelling and Google for letting me check!!)

CherryBerry99 · 31/03/2024 04:18

Vacuum, vehicle

MamaAndTheSofa · 31/03/2024 04:49

Occurrence (had to use spell check there!) or any variation of it.

DaisyDando · 31/03/2024 04:50

Phoenix argh!

BoomBoom70 · 31/03/2024 04:55

Bureaucracy, always. And yours OP “diarreah” lol. Otherwise I’m a pretty good speller but these two words always get me.

Computercalendar · 31/03/2024 05:01

Tomorow/tommorrow/tommoro (tomorrow)

Unwitting · 31/03/2024 05:06

Eczema. I keep wanting an x in there.

LunaNorth · 31/03/2024 05:10

Broccoli. I’m a really good speller (I teach English) but that one trips me up.

It used to be ‘jewellery’, but now I just imagine Paul Weller covered in bling and I’ve cracked it.

bert3400 · 31/03/2024 05:14

Decision....had to spell check it. Never sure if it's Dis, Des, Dic, Dec,....you get my drift

BruceAndNosh · 31/03/2024 05:18

Weird or wierd
I've misspelt it so often that my predictive text gets it wrong too!

NoTeaNoShade · 31/03/2024 05:49

I know how to spell it, but my fingers when typing think otherwise: Minsiter instead of Minister, so frustrating and happens every single time!

PostalPanic · 31/03/2024 05:50

Recipe, their, receive, independent .

Always have to check.

Fantoush · 31/03/2024 05:52

Gauge

if my phone hasn’t corrected it here it would have been wrong again

Safxxx · 31/03/2024 05:53

Another vote for diarrhea 😂 I think I pretty much make a lot of mistakes that I never used to before....thanks to short text messages. In the past I could spell the supercali song from Mary Poppins lol

KnottyKnitting · 31/03/2024 05:53

bert3400 · 31/03/2024 05:14

Decision....had to spell check it. Never sure if it's Dis, Des, Dic, Dec,....you get my drift

It helps to think of the root word- DECide. ( unless you can't spell that either!)

KnottyKnitting · 31/03/2024 05:55

FirstFallopians · 31/03/2024 02:43

Restaurant- every way I write it it just looks wrong!

Necessary- I feel another S would enhance its vibes.

NeCeSSary - one Collar and two Socks.

Safxxx · 31/03/2024 05:56

Safxxx · 31/03/2024 05:53

Another vote for diarrhea 😂 I think I pretty much make a lot of mistakes that I never used to before....thanks to short text messages. In the past I could spell the supercali song from Mary Poppins lol

I will try here...., supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (not sure if I'm right)

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