Hard to spell words

[Rambuchan]

@ Bozo and Perfection: A handy thing to remember for words like beautiful and bureaucracy is that the annoying arrangement of vowels is always the same. It never changes. So you really only need to remember the "eau" and your basic French can help you remember that. So no more trouble with vowels, just remember 'eau' in beautiful and bureaucracy.

A word I always had trouble getting right was hypocrisy. I always used to think it was hypocracy.

 

[Steph]

Strangely, I don't have much problem with bureaucraty of beautiful.
The problem with English is you are not sure of the way a word is spelled simply by knowing how to pronouce it (or the opposite.
For instance, when you read a German sentence, you always pronouce it correct if you know the rules.
For English, it's not always possible

 

[carlosMM]

I seem to be the only person at my school (inc. science teachers) who can spell deoxyribonucleic acid properly.

Me?

Usually.

One S and two L's, not the other way round.

Desoxyribonucleic acid, you mean?

 

[Furiey]

I have difficulties with trial, not so much spelling it as typing it, my fingers always seem to type trail instead even though I know I always type it wrong and try to be careful. It's annoying enough writing trials reports, but when it's a report about trials along some trails it becomes an absolute nightmare (made worse when someone had the bright idea of doing an automatic search and replace on trail for trial). And yes, I had to correct it in this post.

 

[carlosMM]

I have difficulties with trial, not so much spelling it as typing it, my fingers always seem to type trail instead even though I know I always type it wrong and try to be careful.

Same here - 99% of my tpyos (see?) are letter switches that happen because I type too fast for my motoric abilities.

 

[Steph]

Same here - 99% of my tpyos (see?) are letter switches that happen because I type too fast for my motoric abilities.

That's why I create some autocorrection in word...

Like "Ponit" --> "Point"

And when I'm coding, all my virtual functions become virutal, and then the compiler is shouting insanity at me

 

[carlosMM]

That's why I create some autocorrection in word...

Like "Ponit" --> "Point"

And when I'm coding, all my virtual functions become virutal, and then the compiler is shouting insanity at me

When I corrected biochemistry reports I got a document, 24 pages IIRC, where the girl kept writing about Dan. Dan does this and Dan recats thus and.......

obviously, she had c&p-ed the report from someone else into ehr own MSWord, that had an autocorrection filter replaceing the correct temr with 'Dan'. it too me a second to realize the original report must have said DNA!




needless to say, she did NOT pass!

 

[Rambuchan]

good one that.

A friend of mine at an editing house told me of a funny one with typos and spelling. They had to cut the party political broadcast for the Labour party and had to issue a load of press releases along with the final edit on tape. Well this girl at the post-production house had to re-type some part of the press release which outlined their policy statements. Problem is she made a dreadful typo in a sentence which read: "This party would like to see more bobbies (policemen) on the streets." Instead she typed out "This party would like to see more boobies on the streets."

 

[thetrooper]

Great stuff carlos and Ram!

 

[carlosMM]

hehe, Ram, *I* wouldn't mind (seeing the boobies, not the typo)!

 

[Rambuchan]

I think it was all shortly before their landslide victory in 1997. Hey! Wait a minute......

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

For instance, when you read a German sentence, you always pronouce it correct if you know the rules.
For English, it's not always possible

No kidding!!! Stupid English spelling and pronunciation!!! Like...how do you pronounce "ough"?! We have

Tough
Through
Plough
Dough




Edit: And on another note, why if I can see the sun I say 'the sun is out'; if I see the moon I say 'the moon is out', but if I say the 'streetlights are out' I can't see anything!! And we don't even need to discuss driveways and parkways!!! or why it is 'building' instead of 'built'....well it is darn it!!!

 

[Pikachu]

I never figure out how to spell “sucsess” correctly.
The red lines word draws under every misspelling makes it easy to detect the error, but unlike most other words I am unable to correct this word by my self.


Ah, I knew I would spell it wrong this time too. The correct spelling must be sucses.

Oops, wrong again, maybe it is sussess.

No wait, it must be succecs.

Dam it!
I give up.

 

[Taliesin]

Desoxyribonucleic acid, you mean?

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

 

[shortguy]

I always used to have trouble with necessary. I wanted to add an extra syllable in the middle.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Ive always had trouble with occasionally too. In fact, Im not sure if I spelled it correctly just now.

Thanks for tip Ram, but I dont think it'll work. My 'eau' problem seems to be a neurological disorder.

 

[Sophie 378]

Pikachu - success? One C for the k sound, one for the s sound.
I often get tangled in writing independent - hold one finger over the E and hope you get the rest of the consonants in the right order. I have a nasty habit of putting As instead of Is in words that end in -ible or -able; I can never remember which is which. Necessary and Difficult are apparently hard to spell; what I always find hard are the I/E rules - I've heard "I before E except after C and when the sound is E" but I always do it wrong anyway. I may say I've only learned to spell mischief by using the smilie.

 

[thetrooper]

Ive always had trouble with occasionally too. In fact, Im not sure if I spelled it correctly just now.

Thanks for tip Ram, but I dont think it'll work. My 'eau' problem seems to be a neurological disorder.

Speaking of spelling BE. Put 's' in front of ch in Fleich. I made a mistake.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Speaking of spelling BE. Put 's' in front of ch in Fleich. I made a mistake.

Danke mein Herr!

 

[thetrooper]

Danke mein Herr!

Bozo, du bedeutest alles für mich!