Hard to spell words

[Smellincoffee]

I used to tell people I had no problems spelling Mississippi because I was southern. The entire time I was only using one "P". Boy, did I feel like a heel when someone corrected me. I haven't misspelled it since, though.

 

[carlosMM]

In German, maybe, but there's no s in English.

yup, which is why most Germans misspell the english word. I was illustrating this common source of misspellings. Other way round Brits & Americans usually spell 'Schule' (school) wrong: 'Shule'. And so on......

 

[Gingerbread Man]

or jargon like this: "if (!(b1tch=fork())) { ...you are here... }"

If the lady is elsewhere, you're on the forums/chatroom. Its a programming thing. Couple of errors in that statement, though:
You have a superflous closing parenthesis.
Two equal signs are needed to denote equality in a boolean expression.
Anybody who speaks to others like that probably reads the dictionary as a pastime, because they don't know how to deal with real people.



I had to rewrite that sentence, 'cause I couldn't spell separate. or seperate. Superflous, or superfluous. Parethesis, parentheses? Or whether periods are necessary (nesecary? neccesary? argh) at the end of dot-points.

As a famous person once said, the English language is weak, if there is only one way of spelling a word...

 

[Oruc]

welsh place names are pretty hard to type especially when reading someone else's handwriting, your never quite sure if all those Y's and W's are meant to be their.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

@Gingerbread Man
It's not supposed to denote equality
Parantheses are both necessary and sufficient

And yes, it's a mega geeky thing

 

[classical_hero]

Association. That can be hard to spell. Does it have two s's or two c's. Asocciation is incorrect.

 

[Illustrious]

George Bernard Shaw's ingenious variation on how to spell "FISH":

(1) in the word "enough", gh is pronounced as "f"
(2) in the word "women", o is pronounced as "i"
(3) in the word "nation", ti is pronounced as "sh"

Therefore, "fish" should be spelled ghoti

 

[Che Guava]

@Illustrious
that is hilarious!

 

[Rambuchan]

No Che. That is Shavian. Nice one there Illustrious. That was too true to be good.