Spelling

[AngeloMichael]

I always have trouble with "definitely".

Lately I've been having problems with homonyms I've never had before. I write "where" instead of "wear" or "shore" instead of "sure" and I know damn well the difference. The other day I wrote "poor" instead of "pour", I knew it was wrong instantly, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the correct spelling of the word I wanted. I kept thinking "poor, pore, pure..." it drove me nuts until I finally remembered.

This is really starting to bug me.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Ok, I always thought you could spell judgment both ways, but judgment without the e referred to law shit. I'll have to check that!

Calander = Calendar

Colander too. How do you spell those little baskets for spaghetti and stuff with little holes for water to drain through??

 

[scheherazade_79]

My spelling used to be shit hot, but it went to pot after teaching for a few years and seeing the same old mistakes over and over again.

"Desperately" always causes me problems.

The most interesting spelling mistake I ever saw, though, came from a kid who was describing her bedroom. Apparently she had a "dildo rail" running all the way around her room. It was bad enough the first time round, but it turned out she was quite fond of this "dildo rail" and mentioned it a further five times. It was a shit piece of work, but I gave her an A for succeeding to make me laugh for the next two hours

 

[NoJo]

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.

As you're a musician, "Riddim" is acceptable too. Unless you're a drummer, in which case congratulations on switching on your PC.

 

[Minervous]

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[Emma_Ray_Garrett]

I had to laugh because a good friend of mine just emailed me to point out a homonymous(don't even know if that's a word, but...) in my Lit post. I used 'feat' instead of 'feet'.

*smack forehead and sigh*

 

[McKenna]

I also can't seem to spell "recommendation" right. Thank heavens for spell-check.

 

[Boota]

As you're a musician, "Riddim" is acceptable too. Unless you're a drummer, in which case congratulations on switching on your PC.

No, I'm not a drummer. I can work knobs and buttons and all kinds of gadgets. LOL.

 

[S-Des]

No, I'm not a drummer. I can work knobs and buttons and all kinds of gadgets. LOL.

Drummer jokes are my favorite. "What do you call a guy who hangs out with musicians . . . A Drummer!" Damn that's bad (but it still makes me laugh). No offense to drummers, but seriously, how can you blame them for being punch drunk after being that close to loud noise all their lives .

I'm actually pretty good at spelling, but I have an issue with mixing up words (I often say "site" instead of "sight" etc...) It's really an issue because Word doesn't catch it. My editor is my hero for usually finding all of those. With the last story, I finally gave up and started doing word searches for ones I commonly get wrong, just to check how I used them in the sentences. It's frustrating because when you miss one, someone invariably tries to explain the difference to you (after reading a 40,000 word story, they think I actually don't know the correct usage when I only did it wrong once out of twenty tries).

 

[Boota]

Mickey Spillane said that Mike Hammer wouldn't drink cognac because he could never remember how to spell it.

 

[CopyCarver]

I'm actually pretty good at spelling, but I have an issue with mixing up words (I often say "site" instead of "sight" etc...) It's really an issue because Word doesn't catch it. My editor is my hero for usually finding all of those. With the last story, I finally gave up and started doing word searches for ones I commonly get wrong, just to check how I used them in the sentences. It's frustrating because when you miss one, someone invariably tries to explain the difference to you (after reading a 40,000 word story, they think I actually don't know the correct usage when I only did it wrong once out of twenty tries).

You could always respond in kind: send them a mind-numbing tract explaining the distinctions between homonyms, homoglyphs, heteronyms, heterophones, capitonyms, and the seventy-eleven other semi-related forms of misusage.

Alternately, blame it all on the fifth-century British for adopting such a disorganized language in the first place. (If you happen to be British, pass the buck to the Frisians. Few people know where to find a Frisian they can flame.)

 

[Softouch911]

achievment.



ST

 

[carsonshepherd]

zucchini
receieve (see?)
cieling
basically any i-before-e words. And I mix up effect and affect, most of the time just getting it right by sheer luck.

 

[NoJo]

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am rung oar write
It shows me strait a weigh



As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the err or rite
Its rare lea ever wrong

Eye have wrung this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect all the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

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.

Um... aren't you my editor?

 

[Guest]

vacuum

I always want to spell it "vaccum."

I just say sweeper and stuff cause its easier but it doesnt always work cause sometime you need a broom and stuff.

Debbie

 

[minsue]

separate - only because an entire room of people at work told me it should be "seperate" when I was writing instructions on a white board. They almost had me convinced and I've questioned myself when writing it ever since. Bastages.

The word that knocked me down to second place was obituary. Like everyone else here with a spelling bee scar, that one I can spell now.

 

[buxxxom]

character--needs another h to make the second c not feel left out. Or else, it needs to be pronounced differently, with the first ch like change.

 

[Recidiva]

I have trouble with cemetery. I always want one of those e's to be an a.

 

[buxxxom]

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am rung oar write
It shows me strait a weigh



As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the err or rite
Its rare lea ever wrong

Eye have wrung this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect all the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

I love this, it is priceless!

 

[MissBri]