Why is this word so damn hard to spell?

[3113]

Okay. I'm not the world's best speller. In fact, I'm a rotten speller, always have been. But there are some words that no matter how many times I look them up, and try my hardest to memorize, I end up messing up. And I end up having a bitch of a time finding the correct spelling even with a spell checker. And I'm not talking about obscure words used once in a blue moon. I may not use such words all that frequently, but they're not that rare and exotic.

Why the fuck do we have such words?

The word: hors d'oeuvre

When it comes to spelling, what words do you hate?

 

[THROBBS]

fztgramioulate!

DAMN! I did it again!

 

[Stella_Omega]

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' ")

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Why is this word so damn hard to spell?

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".

Rumple Foreskin

 

[THROBBS]

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...

sdneirf? Now that's some pretty severe dyslexia!

 

[carsonshepherd]

receive. Grrr.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

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".

Rumple Foreskin

words can't express.

 

[trysail]

Separate, separated, separately.

For the life of me, I cannot get it through my thick skull that it's NOT "seperate, seperated, seperately." Every single time I write the word(s), I have to look it up. I don't know why I can't remember the correct spelling. It drives me nuts.

 

[3113]

For the life of me, I cannot get it through my thick skull that it's NOT "seperate, seperated, seperately."

Oh, oh, Dude! I am SO with you! Like "Calendar"--I keep spelling it "Calender" or "Calandar."

I mean WTF? Can't these words with a trio of a/e vowels there in the middle have the same one each time? That would be way easier: Calandar. Saparate.

 

[rgraham666]

Renaissance.

I always have to look it up.

Same for Nietzsche.

Oh wait. I did spell that one right.

Never mind. I'll get that nutbar's name wrong tomorrow.

 

[3113]

Renaissance.

That's another one on my list. I hate that word. I *never* get it right.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't have a problem with spelling

CONGRATULATIONS

but most people do.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"guarantee"
"restaurant"
"peasant"
"queue"
"Bureau"

I have to rely on spellcheck, every time.

 

[3113]

"guarantee"
"restaurant"
"peasant"
"queue"
"Bureau"

I have to rely on spellcheck, every time.

Took me years to get "restaurant" right. I now think of the zodiac sign "Taurus" when I spell it and that seems to work.

 

[3113]

I don't have a problem with spelling

CONGRATULATIONS

but most people do.

Raises hand. Yep. It's that "T" there. I want to put in "D" instead. Congradulations.

 

[damppanties]

I've just been writing and I stuck on 'ecstasy'. I kept wanting it to be 'exstacy' or 'esctacy'.

 

[3113]

I've just been writing and I stuck on 'ecstasy'. I kept...'esctacy'.

Nods. Works much better. Looks like "escape" which is thematically right for the drug.

 

[damppanties]

Took me years to get "restaurant" right. I now think of the zodiac sign "Taurus" when I spell it and that seems to work.

I've trained myself to pronounce it phonetically when I need to spell it. Res-tow-rant. Ow as in owww!

 

[THROBBS]

or damppanties.

If I just run the words together it's ok. But if I LOOK... I only want one "p"

of course I want the damp in the panties, but not because of more P!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Separate, separated, separately.

For the life of me, I cannot get it through my thick skull that it's NOT "seperate, seperated, seperately." Every single time I write the word(s), I have to look it up. I don't know why I can't remember the correct spelling. It drives me nuts.

Indeed. I was just thinking (and using) that today.

Episode is another, along with Apartment. I'm just starting to get them right though.

Queue, good call. Hate that one.

Then there are times where you write out a word so many times in such a short period of time that it doesn't look right anymore. I was writing a report back when I was in school, and after using the word "have" about a dozen times, it stopped looking correct, and I started pondering if there was really an E on the end of the word...

 

[damppanties]

or damppanties.

If I just run the words together it's ok. But if I LOOK... I only want one "p"

of course I want the damp in the panties, but not because of more P!

Really? I always thought it looked nice with the two danglies in the middle of the word. Kind of balanced.

 

[THROBBS]

Really? I always thought it looked nice with the two danglies in the middle of the word. Kind of balanced.

It looks good, alrighty! Just spells funny when I look up from the keyboard. Luckily, I rarely look up!

 

[neonlyte]

Really? I always thought it looked nice with the two danglies in the middle of the word. Kind of balanced.

dam_panties has altogether other conertations

 

[THROBBS]

dam_panties has altogether other conertations

so do my Damp_Aunties!

 

[galaxygoddess]

"Alchol" (I didn't spell it right here) I catch a LOT of flak for not being able to spell this damn word ><


"Exalted" my brain wants to put either an H or a U in it somewhere.

"Michael" I hate this name SO much. Why? My brain wants it to be Micheal. I don't know why either.