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

[Nimbostratus100]

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

I never forgot 9 x 7 because my best large bearded malev teacher screamed at mev when I got it wrong. I was new in the school, a very shy kid. Over 40 years later it's the only 'instant' timestable I know without thinking.

Accommodation

February

That blooming R
FebRuary

"There is a rat in separate"

That reminds me of the English teacher who didn't believe the word 'Miaow' existed. She corrected it to 'Mew'. They're completely different words for completely different sounds.

She never liked any of my descriptions of animal sounds or behaviour. Reckoned that horses couldn't whicker or rats brux, either - and she was most put out by my scathing review of a book that depicted a Manta Ray as a demonic, evil, threatening presence, rather than elegant, graceful giants gliding through the ocean, filtering plankton and doing nothing more than making the world a little bit more beautiful. Didn't appreciate me pointing out that by taking a giant Black Pearl, the 'hero' was therefore the villain of the piece, as he killed a creature that could have been hundreds of years old just for a bit of jewellery, either.

To-get-her!

And two fingers to ever teacher who ever told me to find words in a dictionary. It wasn't until I owned an electronic one that I found the word certain!

Business

"bus in ess"

I struggled with “business” for ages. B. U. I. S. “Oh dear, it already looks wrong.” Strangely, some of my classmates made exactly the same mistake.

In a Year 7 spelling test, I got every word right except for the last one, “committee”. The teacher said to me, “double M, double T, double E”. I still find that helpful.

Never separate me from my parachute

Never
Eat
Cake
Eat
Salmon
Sandwiches
And
Remain
Young.

Necessary.

Invisible! Remembered it with 'the invisible man with 3 eyes)

Still really struggle with argument (looks like it needs another E)

Encyclopaedia
I can still remember walking to school and shouting out the letters with each step.

Government
Parliament

Also separate, definite & necessary

Together. You lost points if you wrote it as two words (to-gether), and I got marked down because there was a small gap between the tail of my g and my e (we were just learning how to join up letters and we hadn’t covered “g”). So tog-ether. Clearly not intended to be two words.

Still annoyed about it 36 years later!

Piece of PIE.

23 years ago, this was the only word I got wrong on my year 6 SATs spelling test.

Similar but it was b.e.a.utiful for me.

The other one I still say in my head is
Wed. Nes. Day.

Also in my first job I had to type Grosvenor a lot which became
Gros. Ven. Or.

Chechezlovakia!

Oops!

Never eat cake, eat shredded wheat and remain young

Difficulty
I still sing the ditty in my head when I write it.
Mrs D
Mrs I
Mrs FFI
Mrs C
Mrs U
Mrs LTY
😂

Wed Nes Day

Because - big elephants can always upset small elephants.

Scissors
Loudly pronouced SKIHssors to make us remember the C

Ah I see! Doh!
well I’ll certainly remember it now!! Life changing 😂

Boxed
Eggs
Are
Useful

BEAUtiful