What words can you NEVER remember how to spell?

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Having recently spelled "pederast" "peterass", I'm wondering which words always get you. I myself have a very deep hatred for "recommend"....

Jack L., Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

diarhoea

moley, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

gubnatoryal

Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

embarrassment

Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

kieth

Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

teh

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

rediculos

shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

ackward.

Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

embarrassed.

jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

For recommend, just think of it as re + commend.

For ridiculous, the base of the word is ridicule. "redicule" looks totally wrong, doesn't it?

Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

kieth

-- Fetchboy (wangchungvsah...), November 8th, 2005.

hahaha don't I know it. Seriously folks, wtf?

mine is privillidge

tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

beauru

stet (stet), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

accapella?

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

zeppellin

dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

definitely

naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

manouvre

Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

seperate

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

receive

Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Apparently (had to look it up, I normally spell it 'aparrently').

Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

'foreign' and 'bureaucracy'

english is so annoying.

mikef (mfleming), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

acomodate

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

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| Get A |
| BRAIN! |
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Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...
cheif or chief

naus, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

embarrassment

this one.

but i always spell bureaucracy right. bureau - cracy. not that hard.

2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

bureaucracies usually have lots of bureaus

acapella is 'a + capella', i.e. having to do with the head

accommodate gets me, too, it's like oh come on now

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

ac + commod + ate

"ac" means "toward"

"commod" is from the latin word for "suitable" or "fitting"

"ate" means "to make," "to do"

2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

god damn you "separate"!!!

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

"went" - always want to spell it "whent"

snoball, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

amateur

I always have to write it with both "eu" and "ue" and look at it for a while before I choose.

Aimless, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

tracer: accommodate has room to accommodate two "c"s and two "m"s

caek, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

Haha Jordan, maybe one way to remember how to spell "separate" is that the two As, umm, separate the two Es??

nabisco, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

'separate' gets me, too

obi don quixote (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

seize/siege

Alba, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

I remember 'separate' by making sure I just remember to not spell it how I want to spell it

iatee, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

necessary. to the point where if im in a hurry i just sub needed even when it sounds like crap

From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

^^ I always try that with things -- like "the front door key is the opposite of the one you always grab first" -- but then I immediately get confused and start having the right impulse in the first place, which I'm now correcting to the wrong one

nabisco, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

hahahaha yeah i do the double reverse whammy on myself with the key thing at least once a day

From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

thier/their, always.
We were taught in school "i before e except after c"

Teachers taught to lie, can you believe it?

not_goodwin, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

you know when the more you look at a word, the less certain you are about how to spell it? i get that once every couple of months with my own first name (michael).

caek, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

"There's a rat in separate."

Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

judgment
apparently
broccoli

Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:15 (seventeen years ago)

I get zen-koan-confusion when I see the title of this thread: if you don't know how to spell a word, how can you type it out?

i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

i have to consciously remind myself that it's "publicly" and not "publically"

ORGASM REMIX (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

exaggerate

I always forget if it's the g or the r that gets 2x.

with 'necessary' I remember reading a trick yearsss ago and it stuck in my head 'never eat carrots eat salad sandwiches'

with 'embarrassment' I remember it because there was this guy I knew 3l@n barr and he ended up being an ass. (really)

iatee, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 02:40 (seventeen years ago)

sometimes i forget if my middle name has one "l" or two

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:37 (seventeen years ago)

Ha! Yeah, I can never remember if my sister's last name ends with 'h' or not, which is truly embarrassing.

i'm shy (Abbott), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:40 (seventeen years ago)

I keep messing up exacerbate recently, although I'm starting to become a pro.

I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 03:44 (seventeen years ago)

http://i42.tinypic.com/sblzzo.jpg

StanM, Friday, 20 February 2009 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

Until just now, I hadn't thought of the word "pecker" in at least a decade.

I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Friday, 20 February 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Haha Jordan, maybe one way to remember how to spell "separate" is that the two As, umm, separate the two Es??

― nabisco, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:43 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this has actually worked for me, i've spelled it correctly ever since feb. 17th, 6:43 pm.

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:06 (sixteen years ago)

corelate, er, correlate. I always have to remind myself that there are two of one letter in it, even though it seems wrong, and it doesn't make sense for there to be two "l"s.

what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

dammit. I posted and it auto-scrolled back to the belly and tight shorts of the turdles pic!

what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Thursday, 12 March 2009 00:32 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

arrhythmia

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

desiccate
Sounds exactly like there should be two Ss and one C

kinder, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)

I'm otherwise a spelling pedant but that one always gets me. It came up in a pub quiz once and I did the thing I hate, insisting it was right even though I was obviously wrong. Shameful. Also I need to go to better pub quizzes.

kinder, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

seperate

Darranzhi MacKhakhala (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

sheriff

naus, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

was once infatuated w/ a girl w/ the last name "scheriff" and continually was marked down for auto-typing it in any sort of crime piece i had to write for journalism courses. couldn't stop.

kelpolaris, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:53 (thirteen years ago)

"thoroughly".

got it now, as it ended up on mk2's spelling test list a few weeks ago, and there was no way i could let the little bugger hit me up on such a simple word.

mark e, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:54 (thirteen years ago)

for some reason i struggle to spell relavent relevent relevant correctly

Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 22:55 (thirteen years ago)

Committed/committee. (Darraghmac: there's a rat in "separate.")

clemenza, Saturday, 5 May 2012 16:17 (thirteen years ago)

sheriff

kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 5 May 2012 19:34 (thirteen years ago)

LOL i did not read the reviving post!

kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 5 May 2012 19:34 (thirteen years ago)

accommodation

mookieproof, Saturday, 5 May 2012 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

practice / practise

poxen, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:17 (thirteen years ago)

clemenza otm

underleg aeroboots i have smithed (darraghmac), Monday, 7 May 2012 00:49 (thirteen years ago)


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