Spelling

[wishfulthinking]

Having once won a class spelling bee in 4th grade, I sadly confess it has all deteriorated to crap.

But there is 1 word that stands out. I can never get it right the first go. Calendar.

What word can't you spell when stone cold sober?

 

[impressive]

I always have to look up connoisseur. It just never LOOKS right to me.

 

[Liar]

But there is 1 word that stands out. I can never get it right the first go. Calendar.

Pardon, but...how do you spell it then?


Despite it's origins, or maybe because of it's origins, I can never get 'smorgasboard' right.

 

[rgraham666]

Reconnaissance. And I hope that's the right spelling.

I also have trouble typing the word 'good'. Almost always comes out 'god' the first time. Freudian slip revealing my over blown sense of self importance? Probably.

 

[Recidiva]

I know how to spell it, but oddly enough the word that gives me the most grief to type is "patient"

Keep in mind I just had to fix that.

I have a macro. I'm a medical editor, it's kinda important.

 

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[zeb1094]

My problem word is 'Their' when ever I type it, it will always come out 'thier'. Good thing Word automatically corrects that.

 

[Ken Nitsua]

Fluorescent. I always transpose the "u" and the "o."

Ken in TX

 

[English Lady]

Did anyone used to watch 'Ello 'Ello? Well, the teacher i had when I was ten said I spelt like the English Policeman talked in that programme.

"I was pissing by and I thought I'd poop in."

S Spelling is not my forte -I'm sure you've worked that out already!

guarantee always give me troubles, I always have to look it up. (type it into my google bar and see if it's recognised*L*) Angry gives me pause, I always want to spell it angrey for some weird reason.


Oh and when I type rum and coke I ALWAYS type rum and cock first -always. I don't know why *grins*

 

[CopyCarver]

Yup, that one. And "recommend," too. Always have to look that one up.

At least you don't inadvertently misuse "forward"

And then there's "judgment." I know how to spell it, but it SHOULD be "judgement."

 

[R. Richard]

I always have trouble with floccinaucinihilipilification, for whatever reason.

 

[carsonshepherd]

acknowledge
exhilarate
and, sadly
school. It never looks right when I type it.

(another grade-school spelling-bee winner here - the word that knocked me out of the district finals was jealously.)

 

[neonlyte]

I always have to look up connoisseur. It just never LOOKS right to me.

I need to keep looking up impressive

Category caught me the other day, thank you Jett,
and almost anything with vowils, I think I'm world's worse speller, in fact, I'm so bad, most on the time I can't find the correct spelling of the word in the dictionary

 

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[matriarch]

Unnecessary..........I think.

Told appears as tole, and I concur with many of the others entered here.

I know how to spell them all.......its just typing them....my fingers get tied in knots....it must have to do with the speed of my fingers, I guess.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I missed "iceberg" in the spelling contest in fifth grade... have never forgotten how to spell it since! :x

judgment is one that always gets me, too... I always look at spellcheck like, WTF?! that can't be right!

For the most part though, I'm a walking dictionary... my entire family knows, they just say, "mom" (or "honey") followed by the word, and I can rattle it off without thinking.

 

[Recidiva]

Yeah, I got knocked out of the state spelling be with hibiscus.

I haven't forgotten how to spell it since.

 

[FallingToFly]

Marriage.

I think I finally have learned how to spell it, but that one and interrupt I can never get right.

Then again, every time I type marraige I hear in the back of my head...

"Mawwahge. That bwessed awwangement, that dweam, wiffin a dweam..."

 

[LaDy MiSeRy]

At least you don't inadvertently misuse "forward"

And then there's "judgment." I know how to spell it, but it SHOULD be "judgement."

lol. lego man.

 

[Boota]

Being a musician I find occasion to spell this word quite often, but I still fuck it up a lot.

Rhythm.

I usually try to spell rythym. Neither way looks right. Maybe I should just spell it rithum and refuse to conform.

 

[CopyCarver]

At least you can laugh at yourself and tease me for being a floccinaucinihilipilificatrix at the same time.

Yes, yes, YES to "judgment." I type that one constantly (well, I work in a law office) and "judgement" just makes so much more sense!

And I'm another spelling bee veteran--made it to state one year and got tripped up by "gabardine."

Hey, I'd never tease someone who knows the word (and can spell) floccinaucinihilipilificatrix!


I did, however, recently get away with telling one of the university's ultra-reactionary and uber-pompous alumni that he's truly ardipithecus. He sorta suspected he might have been insulted, but he refused to publicly admit that he didn't know the meaning.

 

[Guest]

huked un fonicks werked fer meh.


i can't spell worth a damn. THIS is the precise reason why the world has:
a. editors
b. spell check.

 

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[McKenna]

vacuum

I always want to spell it "vaccum."