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Words you can't spell right, no matter how manny times you try.

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Durden77

Member
Restaurant.

If I have to use a standard keyboard (which I do all the time at my work), I am fucked with restaurant.

Guarantee is also another. I actually just spoke into my pbone to type that, because I'm so bad at it.

I know there are others, I will edit them in as I go.

Edit : Dammit. The title was supposed to be Words you can't spell right, no matter how many times you try, but my finger scraped the mobile post button. Plz help mods!
 
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JeffZero

Purple Drazi
I have a lot of flaws. A lot. Of. Flaws. But spelling has always come natural to me. I ace it. I feel good about acing it. Except for one fucking word.

Acquaintance.

My bane.
 
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Strimei

Member
Maintenance.

It pops up with annoying frequency at work. I do data entry and a fair amount of people put it down as their occupation, and I always have to pause, say it out loud, and still double check to make sure I spelled it right.
 
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Durden77

Member
Strimei said:
Maintenance.

It pops up with annoying frequency at work. I do data entry and a fair amount of people put it down as their occupation, and I always have to pause, say it out loud, and still double check to make sure I spelled it right.
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Fucking MAINTENANCE. You sound like you are in a similar field as me, and god dammit fuck this word. I can never spell it. And I always spell it incorrectly enough to make the spell check think it's something else.
 
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Mahonay

Banned
Durden77 said:
Restaurant.

If I have to use a standard keyboard (which I do all the time at my work), I am fucked with restaurant.

Guarantee is also another. I actually just spoke into my pbone to type that, because I'm so bad at it.

I know there are others, I will edit them in as I go.

Edit : Dammit. The title was supposed to be Words you can't spell right, no matter how many times you try, but my finger scraped the mobile post button. Plz help mods!
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Me too OP. And it infuriates me because I'm otherwise an excellent speller, I'm the person people ask to spell things. But for some dumb reason restaurant gives me trouble.
 
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PaulloDEC

Member
Restaurant used to be one of these for me, but I trained myself.

Res - like a resurrection in Overwatch.

Tau - like Taurus, the astrological sign.

Ant - like the little bastard who gets into your pantry.

Nowadays it's usually words with double-letters in there. Like "resurrection" for example, I can never remember with letter is the double.

Strimei said:
Maintenance.

It pops up with annoying frequency at work. I do data entry and a fair amount of people put it down as their occupation, and I always have to pause, say it out loud, and still double check to make sure I spelled it right.
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Ugh, this one too for sure.
 
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Ryman

Member
Strimei said:
Maintenance.

It pops up with annoying frequency at work. I do data entry and a fair amount of people put it down as their occupation, and I always have to pause, say it out loud, and still double check to make sure I spelled it right.
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Yep, I hate this word. I really need to struggle to get the spelling correct.
 
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emb

Member
There are a few. Reccommend, achievment, accidently come to mind.

The older I get though, the more I find myself just making careless errors. I'll be typing up a message in autopilot mode, and accidentally write you instead of your, there instead of their, or a singular noun instead of a plural. Those are the ones that get me way worse; more difficult words always have spell check, or I can just avoid them.
 
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Alienfan

Member
emb said:
There are a few. Reccommend, achievment, accidently come to mind.

The older I get though, the more I find myself just making careless errors. I'll be typing up a message in autopilot mode, and accidentally write you instead of your, there instead of their, or a singular noun instead of a plural. Those are the ones that get me way worse; more difficult words always have spell check, or I can just avoid them.
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For achievement I always spell it out like "achievey" + ment
 
Clockwork5

Clockwork5

Member
Subdelty, subdulty, sudlty, subdelty...

I always put a "d" in the word even though I know "subtle" doesn't have one...
 
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grumpy

Member
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Professor and professional. I always write them with 2 f instead of 2 s.
 
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Fuzzy

I would bang a hot farmer!
Separate. I always start with seperate and then have to go back and fix it.

I have to remind myself that "the R separates the two As".
 
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