Little Spelling Bastards

[TGTheodore]

Yes, I know ... in this age of spellcheckers and so forth, there's no excuse for typos and improper spelling.

Still, I prefer to rely on my own brain (dangerous, I know) and I still have words I don't spell correctly after all these years.

Maintainence/Maintenance

Calvary/Cavalry

Environment/Enviornment

And a few others.

Any other spelling "blocks" that you still have? (Spelling, not improper usage. That's another thread altogether.)

--Ted

 

[Turtletrekker]

Villian/Villain

 

[HIj'Qa]

Is this about Tori's children? I believe she is married.

teh the new the

 

[Elemental]

It's quite possible you guys would know better than I. I do notice a few still. And now with auto-spelling correction, it's even more likely our errors will continue to go unnoticed.

 

[captcalhoun]

enviroment/environment

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Manga/Mange.

 

[KayArr]

truely/truly
repetitive/repetetive
argument/arguement

 

[Turtletrekker]

Judgement/Judgment

 

[bok2384]

Turtletrekker said:
Judgement/Judgment

Not really. Judgement is the correct spelling in the UK. We Brits like our E's

 

[Tino]

Developement/Development

 

[Christopher]

I used to have a tendency to spell "opportunity" as "oppurtunity," but I've gotten the hang of it now. It also took me a while to figure out it was "rendezvous" instead of "rendesvous." And I'm still not certain whether it's "harass" or "harrass." I think it's the former. Double letters often give me trouble.

 

[Trent Roman]

That I know of? 'Necessarily'. Sometimes I spell it with double 'c', sometimes double 's', sometimes both, sometimes neither...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[LightningStorm]

separate/seperate

 

[Scott Pearson]

Trent Roman said:
That I know of? 'Necessarily'. Sometimes I spell it with double 'c', sometimes double 's', sometimes both, sometimes neither...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Took me years of concentrated effort to remember how to spell "necessary."

How about "acquaintance"? I always want to leave out that first "n" . . .

 

[Stevil2001]

My initial instinct for spelling "bureaucratic" is something like "beauraucratic" -- which is so far off that Word's spell-check doesn't even know what I'm up to.

 

[Defcon]

It would take to long to list all the words I get wrong sometimes, but the most consistent would be that I tend to "forget" the first a in character. I know it belongs there, nonetheless I "forget" it 2/3 of the times I type the word and only get it when I reread what I've written.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Too many. Similar/similiar comes to mind immediately.

 

[elaithin]

Anything with more than one set of double letters gets me almost every single time.

 

[trampledamage]

LightningStorm said:
separate/seperate

Me too. I have to stop and slowly pronounce the word in my head to remember.

 

[TGTheodore]

Depending on the whole word, I still occasionally slip up on

-ence/-ance

and

-ent/-ant


--Ted