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I’m throwing a surprise party for my boat. It’s her berth day.
ReplyDeleteIt took me years to remember how to spell bureaucracy and I'm otherwise a very good speller.
ReplyDeleteCzechoslovakia.
ReplyDeleteAnd to this day I spell behavaviour and have to go back and fix it. I have no idea why I do that, but always have.
Thomas Henderson the old Dallas Cowboys linebacker said Terry Bradshaw was so dumb he couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the c and the a.
ReplyDeleteAnd that word Terri had to learn to spell no longer exists.
ReplyDeleteyachter, this site is nuts lol
ReplyDeleteI always use a scene from the movie ‘As Good as it Gets’ to remember how to spell conscience, where Helen Hunt thanks Jack Nicholson for paying for her sons doctor appointments. As she says, it doesnt look right but it is.
ReplyDeleteTobacco.
ReplyDeleteIt was in the 6th grade spelling bee, and I got it wrong.
Worcestershire
ReplyDeleteWe used to have spelling contests around the dinner table. I was about 6.
First or second grade: "restaurant". We were told to think of it as someone with an Italian accent saying "Rest your Aunt": "rest-a-ur-ant". To this day I can't spell it without saying it in my head like that.
ReplyDeleteGrasp
ReplyDeleteSquirrel. Mine also was a spelling bee word. I was practicing outdoors with my grandma, and we saw a hot air balloon in the sky which is probably what makes it memorable.
ReplyDeleteMississippi. Hate autocorrect on my phone but spell check is all that and a bag of chips.
ReplyDeleteBusiness. I had to write it a thousand times as punishment.
ReplyDeleteSquirrel. First grade.
ReplyDelete"Necessary" knocked me out of a school spelling bee in the first round. The audience actually gasped, which just made it more embarassing. Never gotten it wrong since.
ReplyDeleteEncyclopedia. I have a degree in English and I still have to sing that damn song every time I write that word down.
ReplyDeleteGaudy. 8th grade spelling bee first round. I had never heard the word before and had no idea how to spell it. I was so mortified I cried all day.
ReplyDeleteYears later, I was the tutor for the South Korean entrant to the Scripps Spelling Bee for two years. Those kids are hard core.
Stationery vs. stationary. Stationery goes in an Envelope.
ReplyDeletePrinciple vs. principal. The Principal is your Pal.
I was a great speller and a smart little kid, but I could not spell "separate" correctly and this went on for a while. Book reports, spelling tests, papers. I think I finally spelled that right in the 5th grade.
ReplyDeleteThia, you are not alone. "Separate" and "surprise" always gave me trouble when I was a kid. Now words with repeating letters, like "indivisible," are a pain.
ReplyDeleteJust for Fun -- and to remember my dearly departed former neighbor/friend Dennis Wolfberg: "... and this group: Spell it!"
ReplyDelete(If you don't know his joke set up, you won't get it.)
When I was 6, my dad got promoted to lieutenant in the Navy. He spent an hour teaching me to spell lieutenant, and I've never forgotten.
ReplyDeleteWed-nes-day
ReplyDeleteNot spelling, speaking. The word chicken in 2nd grade, omg it was terrible. Had the worst speech impediment and I got called on to read out loud and the word chicken was in the middle of a few others I massacred as well. Ugh. That sucked bad.
ReplyDeleteI was an early reader and read words that I didn't recognize having heard before. Ricochet is one example; I had heard other children say something like rick-a-shay but didn't recognize the word in a book. Baseball pitchers used something I heard as rawzin, as in "the rawzin bag on the mound". Only later did I discover this was the word resin.
ReplyDeleteIn a similar category, I though television and radio had a special word staytoon or statoon used to tell you what the next show was. I figured out that "Statoon for Captain Kangaroo" meant Captain Kangaroo was coming on soon. I didn't realize I was hearing "stay tuned" until I was at least 10 years old.
same as HoneyRyder. Mississippi - Mi-ss-i-ss-i-pp-i lol
ReplyDeleteMandela effect exists otherwise why have i have never been corrected on suprise.
ReplyDeleteTogether
ReplyDeleteDiscipline. I was always tempted to add an additional S.
ReplyDelete@Gylly, speaking of the Mandela Effect, when I was in elementary school, I remember being taught to spell "dilemma" with a silent "n", "dilemna". The first time a spellcheck told me I was wrong, I Googled and found out that I am not alone in this. There are many of us who swear that we were taught in school to spell it with the "n", though there is no evidence that it was ever taught that way at all.
ReplyDeleteSeparate. The teacher told us to remember that there's "a rat" in the middle.
ReplyDeleteAchieve. ‘i before e except after c’.
ReplyDeleteSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Had to sound out every syllable to get it right. It would pop up every now and then during our general knowledge competitions between houses. Couldn’t let down Haig House. Not good form.
ReplyDeleteMississippi. Charlotte’s web helped me learn it. But as an adult, I have to think before I spell loose, loss, or lose.
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ReplyDeleteChrysanthemum.
ReplyDeleteJust last year.
Chrysan the mum.
a rat in the house may eat the ice cream = arithmetic
ReplyDeletecirca 2nd grade.
Anthropology .....1st grade.
ReplyDeleteDiscombobulated. My favourite word.
ReplyDeleteReceive. I before E, except after C.
ReplyDeleteSpelling was my best subject. Still can't math to save my life.
Cemetery. Always had to remember it was ce-meter-y, with the unit of measurement. Not cemetary.
ReplyDeleteBureaucracy.
ReplyDeleteMiscellaneous! It's one of my favorite words.
ReplyDeleteSixth grade spelling bee word. Can't believe I spelled "receive" wrong.
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