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AIBU to ask which word you always spell wrong

230 replies

ConfusedWife1234 · 17/06/2018 23:01

Or do not know if you spelled it right.

For me it is ptahalates, phyrric victory to, thousandth. I hoped a spelled them right now.

OP posts:
SleightOfMind · 17/06/2018 23:13

I always have to pause before writing ‘friend’ by hand but I’m fine typing it.

MomOfTwoGirls2 · 17/06/2018 23:13

Definitely and unfortunately! Kindly corrected by iPhone!!

LeighaJ · 17/06/2018 23:13

"Misspelled"
I wish that was a joke. Blush

@Slanetylor

Same for me.

There's one more word but I can't recall it at the moment, I'll know when I go to use it again. Grin

2blueshoes · 17/06/2018 23:14

Etc I always type ect

JessieMcJessie · 17/06/2018 23:14

Philippines. I can never remember if it’s two “l” s, two “p”s or two “n”s. I have to write it quite a lot for my job. But spellcheck always tells me.

lardymclardy · 17/06/2018 23:14

I have to write 'occasionally' a couple of times usually.

liz70 · 17/06/2018 23:16

"Definitely..... the way I still it auto correct always changes it to defiantly..."

Because "defiantly is still a correctly spelled, different word, obviously.
Remember definite has the same root as finish, finite, infinity etc. - so is always spelled with "fini ", not "fina".

justgivemethepinot · 17/06/2018 23:17

The 'r' in surprise evades me at times Blush

LuMarie · 17/06/2018 23:17

Em, "wrong"! Also Halo

mamansnet · 17/06/2018 23:19

Stationary vs stationery. Very annoying.

TreasureInMyTummy · 17/06/2018 23:20

Brain/ Brian - my sister mentioned this one to me and it throws me which one is correct spelling for word I want to use - I have to say in my head b-rain to get brain right.

And a new one after son born on 15th - fifteenth and fifteen the 'h' after first t disappears. Not sure I've ever consciously realised that!

Puffycat · 17/06/2018 23:21

Don no wot ewe arr tarking abowt mi spelling iz fuking grate

TreasureInMyTummy · 17/06/2018 23:21

To make clear fifth becomes either fifteen or fifteenth without that initial 'h'

liz70 · 17/06/2018 23:24

The cAr is stationAry.
The pEn is stationEry.

LadyFlumpalot · 17/06/2018 23:24

Thoroughly. I always have to stop and think that it is "tho - rough - ly"

Jojoanna · 17/06/2018 23:24

Minute never looks right

virginwhocantdrive · 17/06/2018 23:24

thier

LuMarie · 17/06/2018 23:24

Philippines, that actually got me too @JessieMcJessie, I had to check a couple of time at first, which is unusual for me. It must be a strange combination of letters.

The words that are incredibly similar between languages or the americanised (it's an s not a z people, I don't care!), with one letter changed, apartment/apartement (french), jewellery/jewelery. They all mess with me now.

I thought I should be more worldly with all the languages and cultures, instead I just added mistakes that I wouldn't have made when I was five years old, oh dear.

liz70 · 17/06/2018 23:26

"Minute never looks right"

Minnit or mynewt?

LuMarie · 17/06/2018 23:27

@virginwhocantdrive

The rule is "i before e, except after c". Then every single word common basic you will ever want to use with is an exception to the rule:)

liz70 · 17/06/2018 23:28

Aye, like "their".
It's a shit rule.

SoftBallSophie · 17/06/2018 23:29

Colleague

BarbarianMum · 17/06/2018 23:32

Calender.
Dioreah.

Thursdaydreaming · 17/06/2018 23:36

Necessary as well for me. Sometimes I can't even get it close enough for spell check to work out what it's meant to be. Blush

PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 17/06/2018 23:38

Neice. (Autocorrect just helped me!)

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