What word never looks right to you no matter how many times you look up the spelling?
Me? Committee.
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What word never looks right to you no matter how many times you look up the spelling?
Me? Committee.
A.
Comments are closed.
The one I always have to check, twice, when writing is “accommodate.” I think it’s the close proximity of twin “c”s and “m”s that throws me.
So, maybe pairs of twin consonants close together is a wider problem than just mine alone.
It’s a tie:
Accommodate and separate
Gauge. It just looks weird. I also have to stop and think about “desert” and “dessert”. One is cool & tasty, the other is hot and arid.
weird.
Bureaucrat. I always want to spell it “beaureaucrat.”
business. That’s busy-ness, not bizness.
Since you mentioned it, I just sent an e-mail to my entire neighborhood email list where I misspelled “shepherd” as in “FOUND German Shepherd puppy.” However, I was in a hurry and I spelled it “shepard.” As in Matthew.
I hang my head in shame.
Acquire – what’s that ‘c’ doing in there? Nothing, that’s what!
Too many to list these days, and I used to be a pretty good speller. Something about going from mostly longhand to mostly typing, I guess. Of course, the internet and spell checkers make life easier.
One recent one I had to double check was demagogue.
Convenience. Couldn’t spell it right to save my life.
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Harass. It looks wrong with two “r”s and it looks wrong with one “r”.
It just looks wrong.
Sheriff. Do I double the R or the F or both? Every time.
For me it’s: Ophthalmologist
I use it a lot these days and have no trouble spelling it anymore but it never looks right.
Procede, er, proceed.
Rgds,
Tengrain
Foreign.
Supersede.
Traveling and traveler; it looks like there should be 2 L’s, right?
“Sheriff. Do I double the R or the F or both? Every time.”
This. Makes me crazy.