This question about tricky spellings went viral because we’ve all got one we’ll never get right
No matter how good you are at spelling – we’re not very good at spelling – there is always, it seems, one word that you can never get right no matter how many times you look it up.
It’s a thought that occurred to a chap called Declan Cashin. And not only did he have it, he shared it on Twitter.
What’s a word that you always struggle to spell, no matter how many times you have to look it up or rely on spellcheck? Mine is “deodorant”
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) January 24, 2019
And it prompted all sorts of replies, some (many) of which might strike a chord with you. Or is it cord?
Anyway, here are our pick of the words people struggle with (along with the occasional solution).
1.
naieve
no
nieve
no
nie
no
naive— Annie West (@anniewestdotcom) January 24, 2019
2.
unecessary
no
unneccessary
no
uneccesary
no
unecessary
FUUUUCK— Leo O’Shaughnessy🌈 (@leoie) January 24, 2019
If you think that “necessary” has one collar (one “C”) and two sleeves (two “S”s). “Un” is the negative prefix, so stick that on the front of “necessary”. Voilà!
— .::AJ (@ajhuxlee) January 24, 2019
Never Eat Crisp Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young 👍🏼
— Joe (@Joe__Lang) January 24, 2019
3.
Banana/words that repeat vowels. Back when I was a TEFL teacher I once had to write it on the whiteboard in a class about food and put it to the class like ‘how do WE spell it’ because I couldn’t admit ignorance to teenagers. Little shits kept saying ‘It’s how it sounds’
— Ian Lynam (@quixoticclown) January 24, 2019
I spell it by singing it Gwen Stefani style – from Hollerback Girl I believe 😂
— Anna Champion (@annachampion) January 24, 2019
4.
Intriguing. Every time.
— Samantha Drury Shore (@AGirlCalledSam) January 24, 2019
same. that’s what I’ve started pronouncing it “in-trig-you-ing”
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) January 24, 2019
5.
miscelleaneouausous
— Sinead (@sineadaloftus) January 24, 2019
6.
Bureaucracy. I tried 12 times there. Had to look it up eventually
Also
Queue— Brian Devlin (@BDevlin1) January 24, 2019
7.
Mine is Rhythm. Or diarrhoea. In fact I sometimes just dictate it into the phone.
— Tarcan (@Tarjy) January 24, 2019
8.
“Corridor”. I really think it should have ‘door’ in there, but it doesn’t!
— Anna Morgan (@AnnaLauraMorgan) January 24, 2019
9.
Guarantee
I’ve spelled it wrong so many times that my autocorrect has just given up and is no longer any help.
— Fiona (@Itsfeee) January 24, 2019
10.
Also: “liaise”
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) January 24, 2019
11.
Googling ‘connoisseur’ once again just to reply to this
— Derek (@DirkVanBryn) January 24, 2019
12.
Rhythm. It always gets me.
— Sameer Rashid (@Sameer_Rashid) January 24, 2019
Try the mnemonic “Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving”
— Steven Reeve (@srreeve) January 24, 2019
13.
Broccoli
— Jeremy Lachlan (@jeremylachlan) January 24, 2019
To conclude …
Big lesson so far from this thread: a lot of you struggle with diarrhoea. 😏
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) January 24, 2019
PS
I always misspell the Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
I always add one ‘G’ too few. pic.twitter.com/GEKb2D9Igm— Grownmangrumbles (@Grownmangrumble) January 24, 2019
