What's your favourite difficult spelling?

[specialsmasher]

I'm preparing a fiendish test for my A level group & could do with a few more crackers.

My favourite difficult spelling is languorous

Excited about possible contributions...

Miniature
Resuscitate
Colonel

rofl@BlockedPoster

commitment

parallel

I have to add another ROFL to BlockedPoster - classic post - most amusing!

Was going to say Onomatopoeia too
And hyperbole

vinaigrette

I mentioned 'sacrilege' earlier, but what I meant to say was 'sacrilegious'.

Not that sacrilege isn't fairly hard, but the similarity in sound to 'religious' is such a trap, especially if they know the meaning and assume that the words are related. It's a bit more obvious that it's a different word when it's 'sacrilege' and they might remember the peculiar ending in that form.

Dessiccated

Diarrhoea

Sarcophagus.
DD was studying the Egyptians last year and came home with, inter alia, sarcophogus as one if her spelling words. I corrected it, and advised her to alert her (smug) teacher.
Teacher apparently looked it up in the dictionary. After the event. Tsk tsk.

Am I correct that it's "humour", but "humorous"?

phenolphthalein

and

anomaly