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.

Sounds like a type of plastic to me, Lyn. Or blood cell thingymajigs?

Or a new type of Pilates. 😉

Independent is another one for me. I know how to spell it, but I always stick an A in at the end instead of the E.
I remember 1 colour 2 socks for when I stumble necessary.
Occasion often gets an extra I stuck in after the A

I can't spell occasionally correctly most of the time. If I think about it, I might remember that it's 2 Cs, but not always.

Separately is another one. I always want to put an extra E in it.

Inevitable......

Re spelt/spelled

Both work in the UK. Also see "burned/burnt" etc

Relevent Relevant. Have to stop and think every time, probably because of how I pronounce it.

Infromatino / information. Same problem, every time.

I can't spell pigeon. I always ALWAYS put a D in there before the G.

For necessary, I learnt a rhyme at school that's stuck with me for life

"Never Eat Cakes Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young"

It has served me well.

Took me a long time to get 'parallel'.

Also fourth vs forth.

Diarrhoea

Exercise

Weird. I always have to double-check.
I also struggle with porridge. Not eating it, spelling it.

I'm generally quite good at spelling but realised that some of the 'rules' I'd been taught are incorrect ("i before e" for instance|). I think it helps if you understand the derivation/origin of a word that you're trying to spell. David Crystal has written many very good books about the origins of the English language, even to the extent of explaining why we have the alphabet we do.

Brilliant thread and my hard to spell words are in there.

Liaison
Accommodation
Harassment

Separate - I'm good with.

Stationery and stationary - PP has covered it although we use the 'e' for envelope.

There are two place names that always go wrong when I'm typing: Hastings becomes Hatsings and Peacehaven becomes Peacheaven.

I think my version of both town names is nicer than the real one though. Who could be unhappy living in a place called Hatsings or Peacheaven?

Awkward. Or rather, I spell it correctly but it just looks so wrong that I always double check it about 5 times.

Broccoli and accommodation

Only right here because of autocorrect!

I struggle with practice and practise. Diarhoea, I'm never quite sure how many rs in forest Need a dictionary for giraffe and squirrel I'm a ta seems to have been a lot of writing about giraffes forests and squirrels in my class this year. I always use there's a rat in separate.

I once attended a course with a test on the content, at the end. The bonus question, for a prize, asked how many ‘c’s were in ‘supersession’. I answered, correctly, none - the word is ‘supersede’ not ‘supercede’. I had to get a bit bloody David Brent-ish in the end, and show the bloody convenor the word in the dictionary. And the bitch who got the prize got to keep it. Still rankles.

This is not really a spelling mistake but...

Shouldn't it be "grandma & granddad" as opposed to "grandad"? It's not gran-dma, it's grand-ma (like grand-mother and grand-father), so dropping one of the d's makes it gran-dad

Barbara. My colleague is called Barbara and I have mistyped it as 'Barabara' about 20,000 times! I can't help it, my fingers just automatically add the extra 'a' every time - I mistyped it even when trying to type is correctly just now, and had to go back and correct it!

Also 'separate'. I wrote 'seperate' for about 30 years before autocorrect came along and drew my attention to the fact I couldn't spell it.

I can't spell buerocracy. There's a red wiggly line telling me that's wrong but I don't know what's right.

I also sometimes struggle with receive.

Weird. Wierd. Urghhh. So confusing.

rythym always makes me think. And to spell Diarrhoea I have to sound it the way it looks. Die ar hoe eea

I make up little ideas to help me remember this stuff.
So for:-

"And separate I usually put seperate"

It's sepArate (think of "A" = "apart").

Does that makes sense?

Stationery and stationary - PP has covered it although we use the 'e' for envelope

That's how I remember too.