Words you can never spell correctly

[Raising Heel]

Without the help of a dictionary, or spell check, or at least stopping to think really hard about it. I was just thinking about this the other day, and then @TarHeelNation11 mentioned "Cincinnati" in another thread.

Mine are:

- occasion (are there two s's? why would there be two s's?)
- accommodate (two c's and two m's? are you sure about that?)
- separate (is it separate or seperate?)
- judgment (there's no "e" after the "g" because English is stupid)

Ones I see spelled incorrectly all the time:
- definitely (definately)
- a lot (alot or allot)
- they're / their / there (don't get me started)
- it's / its (and my new favorite, its', which doesn't even make any sense)

 

[gunslingerdick]

Mine are:

- occasion (are there two s's? why would there be two s's?)
- accommodate (two c's and two m's? are you sure about that?)

I botch those two frequently as well. Calendar is another that gets me. I want to go with "er" at the end instead of "ar". And for as much as I hate them, I should spell millennial correctly more often. But I frequently butcher that one too. And privilege will stump me from time to time. I think I sometimes try to cram a "d" in there and maybe trade an "e" for an "i". I don't know. But I got it right just now when typing it so that's a win.

 

[TarHeelNation11]

Ones I see spelled incorrectly all the time:
- definitely (definately)

I've seen this a ton of times over the years and I don't understand it at all. I totally get people misspelling words that aren't spelled phonetically like "separate," but to spell it "definately?" Like, are you high?

 

[TarHeelNation11]

I botch those two frequently as well. Calendar is another that gets me. I want to go with "er" at the end instead of "ar". And for as much as I hate them, I should spell millennial correctly more often. But I frequently butcher that one too. And privilege will stump me from time to time. I think I sometimes try to cram a "d" in there and maybe trade an "e" for an "i". I don't know. But I got it right just now when typing it so that's a win.

I misspell privilege a lot. I always put a "d" in there (giggity). For me:

- rhythm (I just got it right but I always have to think about it)
- occurrence (isn't it also correct to just have one "r" ?)
- Cincinnati of course

 

[gunslingerdick]

- Cincinnati of course

I'm not counting names of cities and whatnot. I'm sure there are a ton of those that I frequently botch.

 

[Raising Heel]

I always put a "d" in there (giggity).

 

[TarHeelNation11]

I'm not counting names of cities and whatnot. I'm sure there are a ton of those that I frequently botch.

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

- occasion (are there two s's? why would there be two s's?)
- accommodate (two c's and two m's? are you sure about that?)

These two get me a lot as well. Also, when I type "embarassing" it is quite embarrassing.

 

[tarheel0910]

I don't have enough time in the day to list the words I always get wrong. Lets put it this way, if spell check doesn't exist I wouldn't have graduated from college. I would like to add to the "ones I see wrong all of the time" list, two/to/too. That one kind of gets on my nerves.

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

I would like to add to the "ones I see wrong all of the time" list, two/to/too. That one kind of gets on my nerves.

Me two.

 

[gunslingerdick]

I would like to add to the "ones I see wrong all of the time" list, two/to/too. That one kind of gets on my nerves.

That gets on my nerves to.

 

[gunslingerdick]

Me two.

Damn!

 

[Raising Heel]

I would like to add to the "ones I see wrong all of the time" list, two/to/too. That one kind of gets on my nerves.

Me two.

That gets on my nerves to.

Buncha a-holes on here

 

[chick_bleeds_carolina_blue]

I never get this one corret.... Borborygmus! LOL

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

Hip. Hip Hop. Hip Hop Anonymous?

 

[heelmanwilm]

Restaurant

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

I don't really have this prolbem.

 

[BillyL]

I'm almost embarassed to answer the OP's question . . let me ponder it some.

 

[Blue2010]

Receive (I routinely get "ei" words reversed)
Kindergarten (always seem to write "...garden)
Congratulations (replace the "t" with a "d" again)

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

Congratulations (replace the "t" with a "d" again)

When you abbreviate, do you write Congrads?

 

[Blue2010]

No - I always catch it first. But when you say that word out loud, it sounds more like "Con-grad-u-lation"

Or for me it does

 

[tarheel0910]

I don't really have this prolbem.

I sea what you did their.

 

[TarHeelNation11]

Tarheel

 

[heelmanwilm]

Dook

 

[HookUNC75]

I was always one of the first ones that had to sit down when we had the spelling bee in school so they're all hard for me to get right.