"Separate" - the only word I remember from 6 years of primary spelling lists - what's yours?

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I still have to look up "separately" though.

In my defence I left primary school 40 years ago.

We did the usual, spelling given on Mondays, writing a sentence for each word, learn the words, tested on Friday, it feels like I should have learnt more. I remember some of the words that were on the lists I learnt, but not how to spell them

My sons didn't learn spellling lists, their spelling better than mine.

Its a bit sad all that work didn't lead to better spelling for me

Parliament

Big elephants are ugly beautiful

N ever
E at
C ress
E at
S almon
S andwiches
A lways

February

Accommodation
acc-omm-o-d-a-t-ion (chanted)

To lose weight it is necessary to:
Never
Eat
Cake
Eat
Salad
Sandwiches.

Parliament

the incorrect spelling of separate and dealt used to drive me insane when I worked in an office.

My primary school teacher mocked me and said 'titchy' wasn't a real word. It bloody is - I had read it in Roald Dahl's Boy. 40 years later - still fewmin!

Me too!

That is quite helpful....

weirdly, I remember aujourd'hui from French lessons, thank you Mrs Morton

The only particular words I remember are;

Yacht. Because I was forced to 'have a guess at what the word is' aged 5 for 45 minutes whilst staring at a picture of a boat. A boat with a chimney and something trailing off the stern. A tug, fishing boat or, at a pinch, a trawler. It certainly wasn't a sodding yacht. My protest when it came up at a later date in a spelling list was 'My teacher told me the boat was a yacht, but it wasn't'.

Crater. Because I couldn't say it. I knew what it was, but I'd never heard it said out loud and was reluctant to say any word that contained a strong 'r' sound because I was regularly bollocked and mocked at home for not being able to say 'r' sounds and stammering.

Nebulae. Because I'd tried to explain that's how stars were made, but couldn't pronounce the last syllable, so I was laughed at and told the answer was God. God made the stars. And apparently turned me into an atheist, too, as that's the point at which I decided it was all lies designed to make me feel stupid.

The rest of it was easy for me, as I just memorised what words looked like. As long as I didn't have to say them, no problems - if I saw them, I could spell them and could use them in writing. You were probably far more articulate, even if my spelling was better at the time.

Ironically, though, I've only been able to say the word 'vocabulary' in the last couple of years. Only taken me the best part of a half century to do it.

'because'. Mrs B, Mrs E...

It has taken me half a century to learn to say "Economist"

Necessary - never eat cake eat salad sandwiches and remain young

A teacher told me this is year 8, I wouldn't have a clue how to spell it otherwise.

I also need one for tommorow and diahrea (no idea how to spell that one)

Egypt. No idea why I remember it being on the list.

My Year 6 teacher said there was no such word/colour as “dun”. I’d read it in Black Beauty. To be fair, it might only used by horsey people.

restaurant

Diarrhoea - did I 'ave ripe rhubarb hovering over eastchurch aerodrome.

But perhaps that was location specific. Thanks Mr Murray my favourite humanities teacher.

Adamant- early eighties as a lad in my class was thrilled as he loved Adam ant.

Fruit!!

I consider myself to be a good speller but separate is one word I can just never remember for some reason.
however I’ve got to say the RAT thing makes no sense to me as it’s the 4th letter that the majority of people get mixed up (mistaking e for a)

Licence
Environment

necessary .... it is necessary to have one cap and two socks

queue .... chanted Q youee youee in a very silly voice, encouraged by the teacher

You need to think of it as A RAT in
separate