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Postby rocklobster » Sat Jan 23, 2010 10:49 am

The English language is a difficult one to learn, even for those who speak it. So what are some words you rarely spell right, even though you know how?
For me, the one word I rarely get right is apprentice. Even when I do spell it right, it still looks wrong.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:02 am

I usually get "separate" wrong. It's one of those rare words I have to think about in order to spell it correctly. Also, "mischievous". I always end up putting in an extra "i" for some reason.
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Postby minakichan » Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:45 am

"manage" and "mango."

Every time I try to type these words, it comes out as "manga." >_>; This especially doesn't help since I'm a mangaement major.

Also "animation," which I keep getting as "animetion" bluuuurgh
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Postby EricTheFred » Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:52 am

ShiroiHikari (post: 1368028) wrote:I usually get "separate" wrong. It's one of those rare words I have to think about in order to spell it correctly. Also, "mischievous". I always end up putting in an extra "i" for some reason.


That's probably because many people around you mispronounce it "miss-chiv-ee-us". It may be one of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language. Or at least the American dialects thereof.

"Separate" used to drive me nuts. I would put "seperate" every time. A spell checker cured me by always suggesting that I meant "spherate". After a few times of that, I was able to remember that it was an "a" between the p and r (since the 'e' was why the checker saw "spherate".

So guess what happened? I started mispelling "Desperate" instead!

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Postby rocklobster » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:33 pm

good thing to remember for separate:

There's "a rat" in separate.
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Postby goldenspines » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:38 pm

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I can rarely get it right. Even now, FireFox is telling me it's misspelled. D:
And two others I almost always spell wrong are floccinaucinihilipilification and electroencephalograph.

Then, I usually spell "weird" wrong half the time, which is just, well, wierd. ^_^;
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:46 pm

Haha, "separate" would always get me as well xDDD;

Sometimes (most of the time), it's what my fingers like to press first ^__^ Especially, with those small words like "true". I'm always tempted to press the "u" first instead of the "r", so it comes out "ture" >_>;

There's also "your". Similar thing here as with "true". I'm always tempted to press the "r" before the "u", so it comes out "yoru" xD; I just chuckle this one off as the Japanese version of "your" xDDD

Another set would be "successful" and "necessary" ^__^ I'm always (most of the time) forgetting the two "c's" is "successful" and then I forget that there's only one "c" in "necessary" XDDD

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Postby Lilac#18 » Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:48 pm

Sometime I spell "appreciate" wrong. There are other words, but I can't think of them right now.
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Postby rocklobster » Sat Jan 23, 2010 1:05 pm

[quote="goldenspines (post: 1368038)"]Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I can rarely get it right. Even now, FireFox is telling me it's misspelled. D:
And two others I almost always spell wrong are floccinaucinihilipilification and electroencephalograph.

Then, I usually spell "weird" wrong half the time, which is just, well, wierd. ^_^]

made-up words don't count.:shady::shake:
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Postby Straylight » Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:30 pm

Successful has me pretty much every time, I often end up thinking there should be an extra 'l' on the end!
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Postby Straylight » Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:31 pm

And yeah separate is another one that's really easy to mess up!
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Postby Esoteric » Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:50 pm

Dialogue and theatre. (I'm not British.) More seriously, I tend to double 'N's or 'S's when I shouldn't, like in annonymous or dissappear <--
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Postby goldenspines » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:17 pm

rocklobster (post: 1368044) wrote:made-up words don't count.:shady::shake:
Aside from the first one, the last three are completely real.
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Postby EricTheFred » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:18 pm

goldenspines (post: 1368081) wrote:Aside from the first one, the last three are completely real.


Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is real! How dare you doubt the word of Julie Andrews!

[quote="minakichan (post: 1368033)"]"manage" and "mango."

Every time I try to type these words, it comes out as "manga." >_>]

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Postby Gelka » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:37 pm

I usually spell since like sense and realize like realise .....>.<
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Postby ashfire » Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:15 pm

What about words that sound the same but people will use the wrong one.
I have seen there in place of their and a few others.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:16 pm

Isn't "realise" correct in British English? XD
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Postby Kaligraphic » Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:15 pm

There is one word in the English language that is always spelled incorrectly. That word is incorrectly.
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Postby Roy Mustang » Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:22 pm

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Postby EricTheFred » Sat Jan 23, 2010 11:57 pm

Kaligraphic (post: 1368104) wrote:There is one word in the English language that is always spelled incorrectly. That word is incorrectly.


And keep in mind that you write rite wrong when you write rite right.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:05 am

When I was a kid I thought "basically" was spelled "basicly". Blame the local accent!
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Postby ClosetOtaku » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:06 am

The whole "i before e" thing has me confused...
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Postby Bobtheduck » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:46 pm

I before e except after c or when it says "a" as in "Neighbor" or "weigh"... Unless it's weird. (someone here had that on their sig, and it's stuck with me... not that I misspelled weird before that, but...)

There are some words I continue to spell wrong. Separate as Seperate. It SOUNDS like Seperate, so that's the big thing.

Firefox checks bad spelling, but its suggestions are pathetic. When you spelled Greivous did you actually mean to say Grandma? (well, no, actually Greivous does come up with Grievous, but I couldn't think of any of the real examples off-hand)
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