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definitely!!
comes out as defiantly or definitively
(which I've had to spell check) hahaha
Restaurant - even getting close enough that spell check has an idea what I'm trying to say is a challenge
And brochure - looks wrong to me even when it's right.
My word is “for”. I can normally manage to spell 3 letter words but 9 times out of ten if I type it I’ll type “fro” instead.
For anyone struggling with "necessary" (as I used to do)
Just think of the number 1 & 2,
1 comes before 2 just like C comes before S in the alphabet. This gives correct order.
The numbers also give the correct number of letters, so 1 x c and 2 x s
HTHs. This is one word I have not spelt wrong since using this
My own name.
Lots of people know me as "Sturat"
I defenitely always have a problem with definitely
I’ve actually got to think about it whenever I need to write Technician. I really want to spell it ‘Technitian’.
With words like these, I find it helpful to consider root words (even if they're not actually roots). Technician comes from 'technical' not technital. Or think of Lego Technic. 'Definitely' has finite in there.
The ones that always give me pause are desperate and separate. In my Lanky twang the vowels are homophones, why aren't they spelt the same?
Wether or whether, they both look wrong. Only weather gets the nod from me.
Drac
On.
You meant No didn't you Drac ? 😀
Apparantly I do .......
Lots of people in the medical profession can't spell "abscess. "
absence and practice.
and lots of things with double letters like tariff, recurring, address.
mainly words where there is no consistent application and I can't be arsed remembering.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Lots of people in the medical profession can’t spell “abscess. “</span>
Presumably the second 's' is an 'n' ? 🙂
gauge - great i'm responsible for calibration so write it a lot!
colleague - mostly avoid it by writing the sentence differently.
Guarantee - The other day i'd typed it in a email 3 times, not convinced I'd spelt it right, i then googled it, only to be convinced i'f googled another work as it looked so wrong!
My spelling is generally fairly good, but there are some infrequently used words that catch me out, trouble is they’re so infrequent I can’t remember what they are!
Necessary is one that used to catch me, but my pad’s autospell lexicon now predicts it pretty accurately by context, which is handy!
Whether is another, it just looks [i]wrong[/i], but again the pad has learned it, and guaranteed has been learned as well.
It saves me a lot of scribbling on scraps of paper to figure out if I’ve got a word spelled correctly?
ftmch
orgo
otherwise I'm pretty good
Just found one, surreptitiously. Not a word I need to spell very often at all, but it cropped up for the candid conversation thread, fortunately when I highlighted it it took me to an online dictionary which gave me the correct spelling, mine was, well, a [i]bit[/i] rong...
(Goes looking for embarrassed emoji, spells embarrassed wrong, hangs head in shame...)
I struggle with Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch quite often, as well...
[b]supremebean[/b] wrote:
antidisestablishmentarianism
Is that something you often have a need to spell? Anyway, whilst it might seem difficult because it's long, it's actually very straightforward compared to some of the examples given.
Some of the words I struggle with have already been mentioned. The most obvious other one I struggle with is bouy - for similar reasons to guage.
Not strictly speaking a spelling thing, but I always struggle to work out whether to use affect or effect.
Maintenance ...which is an issue as I work for a Maintenance and Minor works team and have to type it about 20 times a day. I usually just copy it to the clipboard and Ctrl V it as I need it!
And THE!! for some reason every time I type it I type it as "h t e "
I know how to spell it but ocassionally when I write it I get occasionally wrong. 🙂
Restaurant - had to use spell check. I'm good otherwise at spelling, but my head doesn't get it for the important feeding station.
I'm with petrieboy and fossy for 'restaurant' for having to use spell check everytime
also, I know how it's spelt I can never type pipeline first time, it always comes out pipiene ... which isn't good when working in the oil and gas world.
... and now I don't know if it should have been 'spelt' or 'spelled'
Deteoriate ... or however you spell it😑
Man hoovering presents problems, in addition to the fact I hate doing it and the living room carpet is filthy.
Drac wins. Under appreshiated.