Mental spelling blocks

III · Dec 9, 2007

Do you have words that you simply cannot remember how to spell, no matter how many times you type them? For the life of me, I can never spell dialogue or restaurant and at this point I'm certain I never will.

Eskimo1990 · Dec 9, 2007

Yes! I get that all the time! I can never spell definitely...thank god for the Mozilla spell checker

scarletpeaches · Dec 9, 2007

Diahoerr...diarrho...you know that word for when you get the runs?

Zelenka · Dec 9, 2007

'Colleague'. So of course, the one time I went for an interview at an employment agency and had to sit a numeracy and literacy test to go on their books, guess what word they wanted me to spell?

I have the thing though more often where I type a word and it just looks wrong, even if it's spelled correctly. I also forget whole words (including the name of Trafalgar Square, during a tour I was giving of London, which had already been through Trafalgar Square twice already. But I just kept staring at it and could not think what it was called).

dpaterso · Dec 9, 2007

I hope you appreciate I had to look these up!

non sequitur (it's not quitter, dammit!)
obsequiousness (I can never figure where the 2nd u goes)
onomatopoeia (honk!)
hors d'œuvre (which I always read aloud as whores de oov reh)

-Derek

III · Dec 9, 2007

scarletpeaches said:
Diahoerr...diarrho...you know that word for when you get the runs?

Oh yeah, I always have to do spellcheck on that one, which is a constant reminder that I talk about it way too much

Cath · Dec 9, 2007

Definitely.

I can't type the word without looking it up. Not once. Not even this time.

Devil Ledbetter · Dec 9, 2007

Florescent.

And the sad part is, one time my spellchecker caught it, and I accidentally clicked "add to custom dictionary" instead of "replace."

So I'm screwed.

rhymegirl · Dec 9, 2007

I have trouble with supercalifragilisticexpealadocious

WendyNYC · Dec 9, 2007

I had trouble with restaurant when I lived in the midwest. Most people pronounced it "res-trant." No "tau." Here in the Northeast, they say all 3 syllables, so I seem to have less trouble with it. Same with "caramel."

kristie911 · Dec 9, 2007

Weird, restaurant, conscious...

Weird just never looks right.

Restaurant I will never spell right...no matter how many times I look it up.

Conscious...I always forget the first 's'. And it sucks because I have to type it at work at least 5 times a night and it's always wrong! Makes me look like an idiot.

Maryn · Dec 9, 2007

One of the most valuable things I ever lost was the one sheet of paper with a list of all the words I misspell all the damned time. It moved from one bulletin board to the next as I changed jobs, and when my new job was mommy, I put it away somewhere, never to be seen again.

I'm sure it had murmured on it. Which I had to look up just now.

Maryn, decent speller who knows her limits

P.S. Ledbetter, IIRC there's a way to open your user-created spelling dictionary and edit it. I did it when I made a similar mistake to yours, adding both adrenalin and adrenaline. (Both of which just got green-lighted on Firefox's spellchecker.) So much for consistently using one, huh? Anyway, look into that for however you spelled florescent?

Voyager · Dec 9, 2007

With a lot of words like chocolate, definitely, etc. If I say them in Spanish I remember how to spell them in English.

Hapax Legomenon · Dec 9, 2007

I have trouble with sesquepedalian. Or however you spell it. Damn those long words.

ErylRavenwell · Dec 9, 2007

Must and much. I always have to think so as not to confuse the two.

III · Dec 9, 2007

The easiest word I misspell is "of". I'm still suspicious that it doesn't end in "v".

Devil Ledbetter · Dec 9, 2007

Maryn said:
One of the most valuable things I ever lost was the one sheet of paper with a list of all the words I misspell all the damned time. It moved from one bulletin board to the next as I changed jobs, and when my new job was mommy, I put it away somewhere, never to be seen again.

I'm sure it had murmured on it. Which I had to look up just now.

Maryn, decent speller who knows her limits

P.S. Ledbetter, IIRC there's a way to open your user-created spelling dictionary and edit it. I did it when I made a similar mistake to yours, adding both adrenalin and adrenaline. (Both of which just got green-lighted on Firefox's spellchecker.) So much for consistently using one, huh? Anyway, look into that for however you spelled florescent?

Thanks, Marin. I've tried to open that custom dic many times. My computer just laughs at me maniacally.

Eskimo1990 · Dec 9, 2007

III said:
The easiest word I misspell is "of". I'm still suspicious that it doesn't end in "v".

I've done that before. For the life of me I couldn't remember how to spell it. So I asked my friend and neither could she. It was a double blonde moment.

I sometimes spell remember wrong. I put to many m's and e's in lol

RLB · Dec 9, 2007

Separate.

I always have to look it up to figure out if the second vowel is an "e" or an "a." Then I swear to myself I'll remember for next time. Which I never do.

BenPanced · Dec 9, 2007

Thanks to teh intarwebs, I'm having trouble with the more common spellings. "You're", "your", "their", "there", "they're"...I'm getting them all #$@&ed up.

benbradley · Dec 9, 2007

Devil Ledbetter said:
Florescent.

And the sad part is, one time my spellchecker caught it, and I accidentally clicked "add to custom dictionary" instead of "replace." So I'm screwed.

The correct spelling is:

Fluorescent

I once worked for a large lighting fixture manufacturing company that has 25 percent of the world market of commercial/office/industrial fluorescent lighting fixtures. Shipping is such a significant cost in these things that they have seven manufacturing plants around the USA, rather than just one and shipping them all around. So I learned how to spell the word.

JoeEkaitis · Dec 9, 2007

I never misspell "independent" but have to go back and correct "dependant".

Sage · Dec 9, 2007

occurred

I always spell it with only one R.

Typo-wise, I have lots of "teh"s for "the" and "fro" for "for" (including the first one in this sentence).

Luckily, Word corrects all three of these automatically.

maestrowork · Dec 9, 2007

aesthetic
anesthesiologist (or is it anaesthesiologist?)
effervescent
supercalifragilisticexpealidocious

JimmyB27 · Dec 10, 2007

Almost anything with too many vowels strung together. Which is a bother as I made my MC a lieutenant (took me three tries to get that).

Mental spelling blocks

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