oggbashan
Dying Truth seeker
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I'm trying to spell Absorbtion and it's wrong. It's spelled absorb and I can't figure out why Absorbtion isn't working. I read it, and read it again, and I think, no way, this is too easy a word to screw up.
I finally run the spell check: It's spelled with a 'P' a fricking P! Absorption.
It's not like I didn't know that, but I didn't know that right then. Why does that happen—so often?
It happens to me too, and isn't just a function of increased age. From time to time over decades one particular word just LOOKS wrong. Recent examples have been:
Rhythm
Ecstasy
Discreet (not Discrete)
and one that used to annoy me in my early twenties. I could never accept that the trade name was right:
Persil
I kept thinking Persil should be Pursil. Why? I don't know. Like the other words sometimes it just didn't seem that the correct spelling was appropriate.