Which word does nobody seem able to spell?

[Nancy66]

My vote would have to go to 'definitely' - seems only about 1 in 10 get that right.

secondarily - or secondary or secondry and I can't say it very well either.

i cannot spell unnecessary, or can I ?

At the moment, my vote is going for "potato". In my DD2's room at nursery, there are lots of "potatoe" prints on the wall, and I am torn between keeping my gob shut as they are under 1 and can't read and being truly vexed !

neccesarily.. or un neccesarily.... oops left a space... how many "n"s?

lol tutter!

I can't spell occasionally and various other words.

But words I don't like seeing misspelt are gateauxs, peado etc

what's a peado?

paedophile or even paediatrician (hope I've spelled that right!)

Dominic is a very, very tough one. Why do people keep spelling it Domonic?

ah...are the two mutually exclusive?

there are a few people at work who always spell "happened" as "happended". Also writing "as" instead of "has".

liaison is a good one. "Comprised of" really gets up my nose, but I can't spell diarrhoea without looking it up first!

And what the hell is "working to"? Why not "working for", or "working with"? I don't mean as in "work to rule", rather "XX is our new secretary and she is working to YY and ZZ [name of people here]".

Here's a tricky one. Does this eye-shadow complement my eyes?! Somebody paid me a compliment.

Now. Did I get that right?? I am never entirely sure that I am using complement in the right context.

I saw the thread and immediately thought of all the MN lose/loose difficulties. I see I am not the only one to "loose" it when someone has a "lose" grip on spelling.

psychiatrist is a tricky one

naive.

Let me see if I can get it completely right.

naïve.

Cristina - at least they haven't written "Demonic" have they?

Definitely definitely! Also drives me mad that people use stationery and stationary wrongly or don't even seem aware that there is a difference.

Separate and independent. Also most people get compliment/complement wrong and use phase when they mean faze.

Agree about definitely

But I was going to say stationery/stationary (there's a thread title out there spelt wrongly) My stationer grandfather made sure we all knew the difference!

suprise should be surprise

At ds's nursery there is a sign on the wall which says, 'the group with the most stickers will win the trophey !'

Aaaargh! I have picked them up on so many spelling mistakes I am embarrassed to do it again.

embarrassed is another word that gets confused.

And ds's Year 1 teacher last week wrote on the board 'shiney, scaley, scarey' to describe a crocodile. I wanted to shout, 'NO !!! Shiny, scaly, scary!'

but I didnt.

I always get stumped when I have to write 'peculiarly' or 'regularly'. I try to sound them out then realise I can't even say them properly! Are these right? I can't tell

discrete and discreet

There's a lot of "discrete breastfeeding" on MN. I always wonder if the opposite is having some kind of continuous monoboob, or maybe just a tube into the dc's mouth (actually my ds would probably love that).

Which politician was it who made the famous "potatoe" gaff when going round a school?

I remember seeing it on TV - they were doing a photo op visit and kindly corrected a little girl's spelling book by adding an extra e.

Probably George Bush, wasn't it?

Close. Dan Quayle