damppanties
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neonlyte said:dam_panties has altogether other conertations
And damp_anties make me think of wet little insects. Thank you, kind folks, for that image.THROBBS said:
Why is this word so damn hard to spell?
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tongue
i always spell it toungue
in fact i did it when i first wrote it just now
i always spell it toungue
in fact i did it when i first wrote it just now
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Bourgeoisie, not that it comes up that often.
About half of what I write for work, I write in English. About a quarter of it, I write in American. Remembering the spelling and usage differences is harder, for me at least, than remembering how to spell the words themselves.
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About half of what I write for work, I write in English. About a quarter of it, I write in American. Remembering the spelling and usage differences is harder, for me at least, than remembering how to spell the words themselves.
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trysail said:
The trick I remember hearing about, oh, 42 years ago was to remember that "separate" always has "a rat" in it.
For me, "accommodate" and "embarrass" are both a pain in the ass. I always have to slow down and remember to have the m's and the r's doubled.
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Oh, and "alcohol" -- for some reason when I type it, I always want to type it as "alchohol." I have no idea why.
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Subtle. I have won several spelling bees and finally learned a rule for that as I had the others. In six grade the rule for "separate" was there's a rat in separate. Oddly, that doesn't apply to "desperate". Cheez, all these word rules! I just started making up my own rules to remember the spelling of the word. I love words tho. But I never really had to use "subtle" until then, so I always thought it was spelled "suttle" and never questioned it. Who'd a thunk it?
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definite. I almost always type definate and have to correct it. I also get screwed up on some words the end in -nce or -nse because I can never decide which its supposed to be. Like absence, or was it absense. Damn!
argument, I always write arguement and have to change it. There was another word in a similar vein where I keep wanting to keep the 'e' that's supposed to be dropped.
argument, I always write arguement and have to change it. There was another word in a similar vein where I keep wanting to keep the 'e' that's supposed to be dropped.
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bluebell7 said:
Wait, refrigerator doesn't have a d in it?
I abhor a vacuum nearly as much as nature. I can never remember if it is two c's or two u's.
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Think of the danglies
I have a friend who pronounces refrigerator as "refudgerator".
It's a little odd.
I always have problems spelling Massachusetts. I want to ad an extra e at the end.
I can spell Mississippi and Tennessee without problems, but not Massachusetts. Unfortunately the song by the BeeGees is not a good mnemonic device.
Also, I always want to spell catalog as catalogue.
It just looks more well-rounded to me. That g seems lonely otherwise.
And then what happens if the g is lonely?
It winds up at some bar for washed-up, disregarded, dangly consonants on the wrong side of town. Then it wakes up the next morning with a hangover, a bed buddy named quoq and a troubling itch.
I have a friend who pronounces refrigerator as "refudgerator".
It's a little odd.
I always have problems spelling Massachusetts. I want to ad an extra e at the end.
I can spell Mississippi and Tennessee without problems, but not Massachusetts. Unfortunately the song by the BeeGees is not a good mnemonic device.
Also, I always want to spell catalog as catalogue.
It just looks more well-rounded to me. That g seems lonely otherwise.
And then what happens if the g is lonely?
It winds up at some bar for washed-up, disregarded, dangly consonants on the wrong side of town. Then it wakes up the next morning with a hangover, a bed buddy named quoq and a troubling itch.
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Rumple Foreskin said:Because it ain't a real American word, it's French. And we know about their language. After all, as our President has so notably noted, "The French don't have a word for entrepreneur".
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Jesus God.... ANd I am not christian LOL....
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Stella_Omega said:It took me the longest time to get the "I before E" rule ingrained in my typing habits. Even so, I always want to spell "Friends" backwards...
Google shows thousands of people spelling "hors d'oeuvre" as "h'orderves" and "h'ordurves" (and many of them minus even the stab at an "h' ")
I call them canapes LOLOL......
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Your not the only one mate.... alchohol...versus alcohol... damn side by side neither of them look right!
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