rayyychul
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Post by rayyychul on May 30, 2011 1:13:33 GMT -5
... you can never seem to spell? No matter how many times you tell yourself, "Next time, I'll remember!" you inevitably butcher it beyond recognition.
For me, it's "museum" (my first go at typing that, my fingers came up with "musuem"; my second, they came up with "museam"!).
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Post by Mary Sandals on May 30, 2011 1:26:44 GMT -5
I had a really terrible problem trying to spell "convenient" for the longest time, I thought it should be "convienent". I also thought "feisty" should be "fiesty", and I've recently had trouble spelling Odyssey.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on May 30, 2011 1:28:32 GMT -5
Whenever I have a difficult word that I can never seem to spell, I come up with a memory technique. For example, I will never forget how to spell "immediately" because it becomes this sentence: I'm Med, I Ate Ly.
For awhile, I could never spell Mediterranean. It wasn't until I took a history class about the Mediterranean that I finally learned how to spell it.
Currently, though...anything that has a double of "s," "n," or "c" in the middle and there's two of them or whatnot. Like "occasion." I can never remember what to double. Thank the gods for Firefox and spellcheck.
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Post by cyanea on May 30, 2011 2:11:56 GMT -5
Bureaucracy and occasionally occasionally.
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Post by embonpoint on May 30, 2011 10:34:46 GMT -5
I find double-letters quite difficult (as does my mother; I blame her!): commitment, occasion, (p)referring, abseiling etc.
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Dobby
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Post by Dobby on May 30, 2011 17:36:17 GMT -5
I can't spell Massachuesetts. Which is really embarrassing, considering I'm from Boston. I agree, double letters mess me up, as do silent letters.
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Post by Silva on May 30, 2011 20:01:47 GMT -5
Bureaucracy and occasionally occasionally. Bureaucracy. Gets me all the time. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on May 31, 2011 0:04:40 GMT -5
"Restaurant."
Every time I want to write "restauraunt" or "restaraunt" or something bizarre with Os and Es and all sorts of foolishness. The only reason I got it write the first time I typed it into this post is because I tried (and failed, and tried again) earlier this evening, so it was still fresh in my mind as R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T.
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Post by embonpoint on May 31, 2011 8:17:27 GMT -5
manoeuvre.
That took eight tries.
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Post by Tori on May 31, 2011 20:44:43 GMT -5
Caribbean.
That required google.
I was completely deficient with definitely for years. I only just recently forced the habit to spell it "definetly" out of myself.
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Post by Tori on May 31, 2011 20:46:25 GMT -5
I can't spell Massachuesetts. Which is really embarrassing, considering I'm from Boston. I agree, double letters mess me up, as do silent letters. SAME. They drilled it into our heads in elementary school...and I still tend to just double ever letter.....Massacchussettss....or something. hahah |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on May 31, 2011 20:53:53 GMT -5
Caribbean. That required google. I was completely deficient with definitely for years. I only just recently forced the habit to spell it "definetly" out of myself. Oh, I can't do "Caribbean," either. Only got it this time because you'd already written it for me; I just copied. Hope google didn't lie to you, or we're both wrong. The trick with "definitely" is to break it down. "Finite" means limited or specific ("a finite amount"); "definite" uses "de" as "of," so it's "of finite" (more measurement); the "ly," of course, makes it an adverb. So when people say "The book was definitely long," they're saying that it was, specifically, long. The word isn't used so much in this original meaning anymore (it's now pretty much synonymous with "very" or "extremely"), but remembering the root of "finite" will help you avoid the "definately" error so many people slip up on. |
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callmeishmael
Young Armadillo
Believe it or not, I use this username on other forums as well.
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Post by callmeishmael on Jun 1, 2011 23:18:21 GMT -5
I was completely deficient with definitely for years. I only just recently forced the habit to spell it "definetly" out of myself. I used to be yelled at by my non-English major friend every time I would type "definetly". It didn't fix the problem until I took it upon myself and actually learned to spell it. I guess it's just one of those words. |
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Post by cyanea on Jun 2, 2011 0:31:15 GMT -5
Definitely is another bad word for me (misspelled it twice just now).
I stumble sometimes on Mediterranean.
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 2, 2011 12:47:44 GMT -5
I can never remember how to spell Medieval, though I am getting the hang of it.
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