BS: words that are hard to spell

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 05:48 PM

What I have found as the years pass is typing two-handed, my one hand can beat the other and transpose letters. Made worse with newer laptops getting thinner and the keys getting an unfamiliar lower profile.

But we all have bogey words. I realised I was an OK speller when my sister kept spelling certain words wrong. And she was always to be looked up to.

weird is a weird word. is it ie or ei? phonetically there are no clues, and I can't think of a mnemonic (or spell that without spellcheck on)
And to make it worse I just made a web page "Keep Stroud Weird" - whimsical images.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: leeneia
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 04:59 PM

Yesterday Spellcheck objected to "smoulder." It was happy with smolder.

It also objects to naive every time. There's nothing wrong with naive, is there? It's a word I often use when discussing Trump supporters.

Thanks for your examples, everybody.

Italians seem determined to spell things wrong: broccoli, zuchini.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 02:00 PM

I never mispell words.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Mar 23 - 01:40 PM

Dislexia

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 06:36 PM

Boloxks.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 06:16 PM

I don't know any hard to smell words.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 05:46 PM

I am still on a PC desktop, so I have had installed for 10+ years,
TinySpell

It sits up top and turns yellow & beeps if I enter a word it doesn't know. I paid for the version that allows adding YOUR words..(I often type 'thru' instead of through.)

I am a decent speller, but a bad typist and often reverse letters.
I have recently added "Dragon Naturally Speaking" to allow speaking into a mic and typing into a program with voice only. (I didn't turn it on this time, and had 8-10 corrections to get this far.)

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 05:34 PM

Words that are almost the same in English and French, like independence/indépendance.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 04:54 PM

Yeah, I can acomodate that veiwpoint alright. Like me, you probly don't care to see English deteriating.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: meself
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 02:56 PM

I do occassionnally misspell something or other, I admit - but this is just too embarassing a topic for me to take part in - no exagerration!

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 02:03 PM

I have no sutch problums.



(Come on - someone had to do it!)

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 01:55 PM

Dave, give it a shot.

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 12:47 AM

my main problem is typing 3 fingered & getting a surprise when I see what I've created.

teh is one of my most used words

Subject: RE: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 12:44 AM

I would but I can't spell them

Subject: BS: words that are hard to spell
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Mar 23 - 12:32 AM

Recently I was watching YouTube and I clicked on a video that tested spelling ability. It was too easy, and I could spell every word. For example, I had no trouble with 'brought.'

Mudcatters are pretty literate. Just for fun, let's make a list of words WE find hard to spell. Here are my nominees:

phenomenon
parallelepiped
resuscitate

Do you have any to add?