AIBU to ask which word you always spell wrong

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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.

Archaeology - half my degree is in this but still need a spell checker when writing my cv.

Diarrhoea

The 'i before e' rule has always irritated me.

I was writing an essay recently and has to write association repeatedly. I kept adding in an S before the C, so I made myself write it out 20 times to learn it properly. It worked and now I spell it right without thinking.

I have to think of 'to separate' when writing about something being separate, because I pronounce it so it sounds like an A that way. If I don't think about it, it always has an E.

Hygiene is another one, even though it does follow the rule, I never get it right first time. Should've given myself lines for that one, too.

Business- it’s got an ‘i’ in it somewhere but I’m never sure where...

Guarantee- I'm always thankful for auto correct. 😬

Diarrhoea- I need autocorrect, and even then I am sometimes so far off it doesn't know what I'm trying to say

Separate. Always muddle the a and the e. And sentence. Want to put an a in...

Minuscule (not miniscule)
Eighth - just looks weird
Manoeuvre, which stumped me for years until my brother taught me a funny way of remembering how to spell it.

Translucent. I'm good at spelling generally, but I always have to check that one.

I used to have a problem with licence/license but I found a convoluted way of remembering so I'm sorted now. "Affect is the Action" also helps me to remember the difference between affect and effect too.

liz, thanks for that - I will teach that way of remembering to the kids I teach.

Distance - bit embarrassing as I teach speed/distance/time!

Isosceles - another one I have to check before writing on the board

Corresponding - 2 s's, 2 r's both????

All words I have to use in teaching a lot! I tell the kids we all have words we blank on now and then and if I spell something wrong to tell me!

Parellel is a good one - 2 parallel lines in it!
My maths teacher taught me a rhyme for necessary - never eat cake eat smoked salmon and roast yak - really stupid but it sticks and works for me!

abigboydidit, there was a poster in my year 9 English classroom that said "there's always a rat in sepARATe" that I clearly spent too much time staring at helped me remember that one.

Definitely diarrhoea. I usully just mash a few letters into my keypad and hope that autotocorrect changes it.

Perhaps or prehaps! Does me in!

Exercise and calendar. Predictive text just did it for me but I didn't need correcting. At the ripe old age of ** I seem to have got it

It's actually 'i before e except after c when the sound is ee'.

"Neice. (Autocorrect just helped me!)"

No it didn't. Unless you deliberately misspelled it for that example?

Phtalates. Okay, I feared so, hope I can remember it next time.

Nope, still missing an 'h'!

Spelt and spelled are both correct, as are learnt and learned.

My surname.
Only had it for 2 years and not English, so still have to stop and think whether it’s ck or kc in the end.

Favourite, I always spell faveourite (Doyle) and restearaunt, lost count of times autocorrect has changed it to restraint and made me look like a mad en!

So many words but can't think now. Necessary I always remember 1 Coffee 2 Sugars

Budget always have to think and sometimes spell it budjet

I have trouble with which words are gua... and which are gau..... Like guarantee and gauge.

Necessary, only right not because of predictive text

The full 'i before e' rule is 'i before e, except after c, where the sound is ee'. It solves the 'their' problem but there are still exceptions - seize, protein. 'Weird' is easy - I just think 'It's weird to spell' .

The ise/ize thing is mostly bollocks - though nobody will believe you . The OED gives both, with precedence to 'ize' and there's plenty of UK publishers that still use 'ize'. OUP (logically), Penguin, The Times Lit Supp.

SePARaTe - has part in it,
Chrisps- every time

Neighbour and foreign also disobey the I before e rule.

Words like licence/license and practice/practise which are noun/verb variants can be solved by substituting advice/advise and seeing which works.