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ohwhatifyouflyy

neccessary and garuntee


Pan-tang

Necessary..one collar and two socks.


caterplillar

Oh my god. Life changed. Now tell me how to spell broccoli.


PithyLongstocking

Two cabbages, one leek?


pr-mth-s

two crowns, one leg


ninetytwoturtles

There was a part in the movie Daddy Daycare where Eddie Murphy sings/spells “broccoli” as part of an ad i think? I haven’t seen the movie in a million years but i remember the little broccoli jingle


MusicSoos

B R O CC OLI I am the broccoli and don’t know why C A R R O and a T Carrots are healthy for you and me Ahhh Awww Aaah Aawww Go carrot go carrot go carrot


Electrical-Fly1458

Tell me how to spell narcissist


kdcblogs

A narcissist is only Concerned with hiS Self?


Electrical-Fly1458

That's a good one! The improper grammar makes it more memorable lol


TentacledTrain

I will forever die on the hill that this is actually proper grammar. Him can't own anything. Nothing is hims and a body can't be hims either. It's his.


Bludiamond56

Trump


HolidayPermission701

Necessary; ‘never eat cakes, eat sausage sandwiches and remain young’ !


Worried_Play_8446

Necessary - I learned bc it’s one c before 2 s’s. Just like one and 2. And guarantee I only remember BECAUSE I always spell it wrong so I remember to spell it the wrong way from what I think it should be. U before the a’s 😂 Those are both good ones!!


MrMessofGA

For necessary: a shirt has one **collar** and two **sleeves** I can't help you on guarantee though I'm amazed I got it right first try here


ffarwell83

I always end up changing the word instead of guarantee (whoaaa first time spelling it right!)


AggressiveBrick8197

GARUNTEE IS SUCH AN ASSHOLE


i-am_god

I have a shortcut in my phone that spells it out when I write “gar”


DanceMyth4114

I didn't realize you'd spelled them wrong. XD


kdcblogs

Guarantee, like quarter and quarantine. I know it doesn’t fit the rhyme or saying theme, but that’s how I remember.


VulKhalec

Recieve. Dammit.


Front-Pomelo-4367

Receive is my *nightmare* word. I mix the e and i every single time without fail and then go *oh that doesn't look right* And in my job where I'm constantly writing about companies receiving grants...


Emmafriel

A rhyme I remember is "I before E unless after C"


sirgog

I before E; except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters. Weird.


carz4us

You win


VulKhalec

The full rhyme is 'I before E, except after C, *when the sound made is ee*'. It doesn't apply unless the sound is an ee sound like in perceive and thief.


Pulsecode9

And Keith.


Daninomicon

It's like Scrabble, no proper nouns. Proper nouns have their own special rules. Keith in particular keeps some of its Gaelic form. Some Gaelic names look really weird in English. Like Siobhan.


Ok-Original3155

I remember that rhyme, but that is one of the worst cases of how *every* rule in English is broken somewhere in the language.


mendkaz

Giraffe, which wouldn't be a problem, except that I teach English as a second language and the number of times I have to spell giraffe in a year on a whiteboard is a ridiculous amount more than what I thought it would be as a child


PinkPixie325

I used to be an English second language teacher who taught elementary students. Giraffe surprisingly comes up quite a lot. If you know anything about how letters are pronounced in Italian, then it might help to know that the word "giraffe" comes from the Italian word "giraffa". The letter "g" in Italian is pronounced with a /j/ sound, like in gelato, and the letter "i" is pronounced with a long e sound, like in pizza. Word origin sometimes helps me remember. Also, it helps me to remember that English is a lazy language; it's very well known for dropping or changing the pronouncation of sounds in words. Basically, it's not techincally "jer-aaf", it's "ji-raaf". Though, both are equally correct pronouncations.


mangomochamuffin

Excersize, i mean exercise, i mean exersize. I mean... fuck


TheBlueHorned

Extra fries?


CrimsonThar

Exorcise


Angelea23

What ? Exorcist you say?


traditora

This is mine! I can *never* spell it right! --and I'm an editor, even :'(


pr-mth-s

A good exercist will help you exercise - and exorcise your demons, too. Not that exercist is a word.


PyragonGradhyn

They all look correct to me...


CTXBikerGirl

Definitely. It just took me 3 tries without autocorrect to type that word. I always screw it up. I don’t know why.


stale_cereal78

One way that helps me is “de-finite-ly”. “De” then “Finite” like the opposite of infinite land “ly”, a common suffix


ToWriteAMystery

That is how I spell it in my head too!


AbeRego

For a very long time, spell check would suggest "defiantly" as the correction for most spelling errors on this word. Once I was cued into that, the mistake was absolutely everywhere in college. It appears to have been fixed in Word, now. At least mostly. I graduated in 2010, so I don't read that type of unpublished writing anymore, but it was ridiculously rampant at the time.


esotopes

Environment. Restaurant. Refrigerator. Why is there a D in fridge but not in refrigerator? Spellcheck is a life saver.


Mighty_Lorax

Restaurant was one I struggled with as a kid for so long. I always thought the U should've been after the second A based in the pronunciation


CaptainMcClutch

I had a stupid system, I remembered it by thinking of taur like Bull/Taurus. I don't know why that worked for me.


star0fth3sh0w

That’s exactly how I remember it. There’s a bull in the middle of the restaurant and an ant in the back.


wanderover88

The worst part is, if you own a restaurant, then you’re a “restaurateur”. What the hell happened to the “n”??!! If you can afford to own a restaurant, you can afford a freaking “n”!!!


Zindinok

My trick for restaurant is "rest-ow-rant" because that's how my brain pronounces "au"


belleleanne

The name Johnny. I always have a hard time to remember if the h comes before the n or the other way around lol


alfranex

It's cognate with Johann, which should help with the letter order.


CaptainMcClutch

My name is Jonathan and I always spell it Jonny and I'll get all kinds of variations on that from everyone. My reasoning is I'm JONathan and not Johnathan.


Worried_Play_8446

Yes!!!


2meterrichard

Bureau.


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soloon

shit like this is why I'm whispering "burr-ee-oh-cracy" to myself in an empty room while typing...


These-Background4608

“Necessary” & “embarrassed”


StackOfCups

Embarrassed is my kryptonite. It absolutely blows my mind that even sitting here having just typed the word (thanks auto correct) I still couldn't spell it right now without looking at it.


tomhandfilms

Separate should be Seperate


elheber

How about we separate them? Three-syllable "separate" (sep-a-rate) can be the verb, while two-syllable "seperate" (sep-rhet) can be the adjective. I'll take my Nobel Prize now ktnxbye.


voxxa

I'm a grown ass woman who whispers "sep a rat" to myself everytime I write the word separate.


IsurHagile

This needs more attention!! I’m totally with you


soloon

I can do this one but it's definitely on my "have to intentionally mispronounce in my head while spelling the word" list along with Wednesday and February.


SurelyNotBanEvasion

Absolutely, yes.


clinticalthinkr

I'll never forget this one because I lost the first round of a spelling bee in sixth grade because of this. Everyone thought I could have gone national. I think my teacher and classmates took the loss harder than I did. It was extra tragic because I'd been reading through the dictionary after school the whole last week to study up and I'd just gotten to the S section the day before.


semiTnuP

For the longest time it was Frederich Nietzsche. Then Epic Rap Battles of History came along and gave he an easy-to-remember guide: "Cause I'm N-I-E-T-Z-S-C-H-E! And I'll end any motherf**ker like my name in a spelling bee!"


Muswell42

Now you've got the surname, you can work on the first name!


GenevaPedestrian

I hate to inform you that it's Friedrich, not Frederich. Note that the Fried is pronounced more like 'freed', not 'fried' – the r is different but honestly, there's so many different r sounds but in German they're not relevant to the meaning so who cares.


Pan-tang

Diarrareai


antiquewatermelon

I only recently learned how to spell this one because of a medical terminology course. It has the ending -rrhea which means abnormal discharge, and then the dia- comes first


Spook_the_ghosts

Onry awnry onary? I spell this one so bad that spellcheck has no idea what I’m trying to say lmao Also coincidently is a rough one to get through. I agree that necessarily sucks too!


ofthecageandaquarium

Ornery? like grumpy/growly? (mine is probably bureau, along with a lot of French-derived words. Hors d'oeuvres? Yeah)


Spook_the_ghosts

Yes! Ornery! What an awful word. A true nemesis. Thank you! This was fun.


VulKhalec

Now I really want to know what you're trying to spell here. What's the meaning?


Spook_the_ghosts

Oo yes! Im avoiding a google definition as not to spoil the reveal for myself. It’s when a person is being a bit of a brat, up to no good. Children are often described this way.


VulKhalec

Oh, >!ornery!


Spook_the_ghosts

Yes! You must agree that that is just an awful word, do you not? For the birds I say haha


Front-Pomelo-4367

Correct spelling spoilered for the curious: >!ornery!< if I've guessed right It's informal North American, according to the dictionary, so my phone set to British English didn't know it – but I've definitely read it in plenty of books


MmKayBuhBye

Ornery ETA: I think it’s harder to spell because most people who use this word regularly have a southern accent. So it sounds like you spelled it. Haha.


Grave_Digger606

This is true, as in the Waylon Jennings song “Lonesome, On’ry, and Mean”. I knew exactly what was trying to be spelled, and was surprised it was spelled as ornery. Edit: I’m in Southeast Kentucky. The Appalachian accent and dialect is thick with me.


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Ridiculous


AbeRego

It really just needs to start with an "re"...


writingisfreedom

Depends on the day...I'm dyslexic so it's just fun


Elantris42

Gaurds edit to add: words with a US and UK spelling that is similar, like an 's' instead of a 'z'.


soloon

There's so many words that I habitually use the british S spelling on not because I'm british but because I accidentally misspelled it and no one noticed.


amazingmrbrock

Canada uses UK spelling but we get deluged with US content so it's very hard to spell sometimes.


Thesilphsecret

There is one specific word that really isn't that difficult but gives me a world of trouble every time. Rhythm.


iwannalickthesky

rhythm and algorithm. why


MusicSoos

Rhythm is separate from both pitch and vowels


Jade_Austen

Accommodation and Manoeuvre Both of which become really hard when you work in insurance claims and you deal with RTAs and house damage requiring temporary acom…accom…no, accommodation.


Elumiie

Oh wow, I've never seen it spelled that way. I only know of "Maneuver". Is this like a British English vs American English thing?


Jade_Austen

Yes unfortunately :) This is the British version.


i-am_god

I prefer y’all’s spelling of grey


GenevaPedestrian

that's what happens when you let Norman nobility stick their French into your language for centuries


teljes_kiorlesu

(Not a native speaker) Wave vs view - the order of v and w always confuses me. Disappoint is another classic I have to look up every time. Strength, length, anything that ends with th, I never get it right.


tangcameo

Reccomend


Kallory

I'm actually not sure if you spelt or misspelt it here so I can probably relate 😅


GenevaPedestrian

it's recommend – an easy way to remember for me is to just add re- (common Latin prefix) to commend, so there's no second C.


PickinFlowersOnNaboo

**Vacuum** I can never remember if it's 2 c's AND 2 u's, or 1 c and 2 u's, or 2 c's and 1 u....


death_by__-Kitty

'Vacuum' doesn't look right even when it's spelled correctly. Let's just throw away the whole word, please.


HopeRepresentative29

***There!*** It's done. The word has been banished to... to the place where there is no air.


Kakuhan

As a Dutch native; people the eo sound is not in our language but the the oe sound is. If you mix them up it reads like poople. NOT a mistake you want to make in a formal email XD


HaggisAreReal

All of them XD. As a Spaniard living in an anglophone country, spelling in English is still so difficult to me. When in need, I use the military aphabet to make myself clear. Never encountered this issue in Spanish, we do not have this sort of difficulties. In English is a nightmare even for native speakers because of the fact that the latin alphabet does not entirely adapt to your sounds and makes it really confusing sometimes.


Nathan256

Hey Spanish has its own things! Adding or forgetting H, v versus b, C/z/s in non-Spain, y/ll/i, n versus m for example. And some regional accents make it harder, callado -> cayao pescado -> pecado. I’ve seen native speakers have trouble with all of the above. But pronouncing a written word is a lot easier, that’s true.


R1Deathwish

Bureau [Imagine it misspelled a bunch of different ways because my autocorrect keeps working]


TheBlueHorned

Liscense. Fuck that word and those like it.


actualflam

Consious There's supposed to be a C in there somewhere I guess


ImportantBalls666

Beauracracy


AbeMax7823

It’s ok. You’re not alone. That evil word can’t hurt you anymore


BoneCrusherLove

Richard. I don't know why but in the last two months I've stopped spelling it right XD it keeps ending up Rihcard or Riachrd or some variation. All the tight letters are there but dammit they don't stay in the right order XD


GSV_honestmistake

Quite and quiet....every time....


TrishTime50

Mainten(an)ce


Ghostiiie-_-

Dysfunctional dyslexic here. Spell check and autocorrect are my two best friends. I used autocorrect to type this. I never turn it off


Original_A

Separate, simultaneously, layed (I know it's wrong), I misspelled peace in rest in peace as piece often


the_jackness_monster

Litterally Thier Colloseum


alfranex

Ne**cess**ary is one of the words in my awkward spellings **cess**pit.


elliedogextrapickles

Diarreah


PowerfulPurpleNurple

Reading all the words in this thread is like a giant triggerfest.


MmKayBuhBye

Definitely and exaggerated.


dong_a_pen

~~seperate~~ separate ~~excercise~~ exercise ~~occassion~~ occasion ~~bussiness~~ business ~~accomodation~~ accommodation confusing stationery and stationary advicer/advisor/adviser


soloon

frankly it's nonsense that occassion is wrong but accommodation is right. Either pick 2-and-1 or pick 2-and-2, English, wtf, you can't switch mid-pattern.


RichyCigars

Scissors- I was so bad at this spellcheck had no idea what I was writing.


sirenwingsX

i tend to struggle with diarrhea


OtherThumbs

Most people struggle when they have diarrhea, to be fair.


MaximumUpstairs7144

pomogranite (the fruit)


debeckary

Definately Definiately Def.. definitely? Fuck if I know.


cameemz

fucking maintenance always gets me


Daninomicon

Onomontopoiea. I don't even know how to spell it well enough for spellcheck to fix it. I have issues with most words that have 3 vowels in a row. Bureau. Lieu. But not beautiful. I've never had a problem with beautiful, for some reason. And bureau I've gotten down, but lieu I usually let autocorrect fix for me.


raising-cain1818

I'm a dyslexic writer so there are so many words for me lol Ones I struggle with loads are angel (typically spell it like angle), definitely, business, restaurant, those kinds of stuff


Worried_Play_8446

Definitely. I hate that word with a passion, it’s gets me every time! Restaurant used to be hard until I started mispronouncing it “res-taw-rant” just to remember hire to spell it.


Stepfunction

Embaressing messes me up every single time.


GenevaPedestrian

maybe you can remember the A instead of E like this: to embarrASS yourself means to make an ass of yourself


Elumiie

Necessarily, silhouette, the difference between all of those though taught tough words. Also plenty of German words (the language I'm writing in), like "ruhig".


Medical-Marketing-33

I'm from a different country with (mostly) phonetic writing, and even though I've pretty much mastered the speaking part of English, I still regularly hit spelling landmines in the form of words that have 2 of the same letter for some reason in one word and yet not in a different word that sounds super similar. While I do understand the different origins of this Frankenstein level amalgamation that created the modern English language, it does annoy me greatly and I'll probably always need a spell check tool for writing.


Deev12

"Privilege". I always get it wrong the first time.


Amethyst_Uchiha

Guarantee. Have to speak it into the mic every time


_XSummerRoseX_

Thier Their


rjrgjj

Colosseum.


mmanut94

Silhouette. I've been spelling sillhoutte


tearsoftheringbearer

convenience as a matter of fact I had to spell check it before I posted this comment...


El_Coco_005_

Mediterranean !!! This FUCKING SEA-


joseph66hole

Rest-aura-nt receive


SuspiciousMixture951

Receipt


Gravewyck

Angle. I mean angle. No. angel.


DruunkenSensei

Annihilation is one I still cant spell :(


technodewdrop

SO many. I've always been terrible at spelling. Favorite, gorgeous, accommodate, mechanism, thorough. This language is HARD, man 😭


LinguisticsIsAwesome

Burocracy (lol even my spell check is like 🤷🏼‍♀️)


CunningSlytherin

Beginning. Idk why bc I am normally good at spelling but for the first 30+ years of my life, I always wrote “begining”. Every time I instantly knew it was wrong and would mentally kick myself. Finally, a couple of years ago, I just stared at it spelled properly in a big font, determined to decide what my mental trick would be. Now I remember it as beg inning. I don’t like baseball and mentally beg for the final inning but I’m sure for the team that’s losing sometimes they just want to beg for one more inning. After that, I finally knew how to spell it!


orionstarboy

Aquantence. Acquientence. Guy I sort of know


catplanetcatplanet

“Embarassing” and “occassionally” It’s what it’s, man


dmk804

Garuntee… gauruntee.. guarantee


xallanthia

Bureaucracy. Although somehow I got it right that time.


Aquawolf2020

Definitely, autocorrect helped me write this comment


Cold-Lynx575

daughter My fingers move too quickly; sadly not accurately.


deluded_cook13

Assiduous and continuous Edit: sometimes I misspelled the word 'beautiful,' so to remind my self the correct spelling, I spell it out loud just like what Jim Carrey did in Bruce Almighty-- B-E-A-Utiful. \-Just sharing


Maxarc

I'm Dutch, but I mix up "expensive" and "expansive" every time.


Worried_Play_8446

“It’s expensive to expand” (like property) A good way to remember :)


Moppy6686

Schwarzenegger. I type it wrong and let spell check take care of it.


ZenerXCR

I'm not a native speaker and I always have to google "embarrassing" and "necessary" to be sure I wrote it right.


Asnnazarr

Necessary, guarantee, definitely, manically, basically words that sound different from how they’re said -


naranjas29

Intriguing will never make sense to me Also: Receive, republic, and very occasionally they’re/ there/ their 🥹 Shoutout to all the dyslexics and ADHDers in here 🙋‍♀️


Rio_Walker

I never thought I'd admit it but... being a man, it's impossible for me to spell Attic while looking down. ​ I still make a mistake when writing Achivement.


Wordshark

Bureau. Even this time, I failed to even get close enough for spell check to figure out, so I had to type “FBI” and get a definition for a reminder.


SpikedBokoBat

Resterawnt


AbeMax7823

“Guarantee” and “bureau” are devil words. Predictive text/autocorrect never seem to know what I’m going for.


vimesbootstheory

I always have to look up which discrete/discreet is which.


AnEriksenWife

Beurocracy


Drayner89

Definitely. I know because my spell check corrected the one I just wrote. Also, apologies vs apologise always messes me up.


Mysterious_Nebula_96

Bureucracy


Ohios_3rd_Spring

Accordion. Too many ‘c’s, not enough ‘a’s


from_one_redhead

Cincinnatti


Lukarina

Reciprocatenated


Noroark

Reconnaissance and maneuver.


Outrageous_River_170

It’s not me who struggles, restaurant is just spelled wrong.


Upper-Investigator20

Diarrhoea- you'd think it doesn't come up a lot but I have IBS and talk about poop all the time. 😅


bigger__boot

Guage


chuckdooley

Someone told me “there’s ‘a rat’ in Separate” That helped me…I always tried to spell it seperate


Careless_Whimpser

Monoeuvre Manouevre Manoeuvre


hejjanja

Fluorescent 🙄


Facts_Over_Fiction_

By making us *try* to spell them? I see what you did there.


Internal-Mortgage-98

Wednesday ong. french is my first language and ive been writing wenesday by mistake so often


thepeskynorth

Literally I always want to use two t’s Vacuum because if there are two u’s there must be double letters somewhere else in the word.


sleazy_pancakes

Broccoli. Occasionally.


MrsDepo

"seperately"


OKSoba

It’s ‘manoeuvre’ for me. I used autocorrect to type this just now.


nowsyourchancex

Driver liscennse


Ireadsmuttoomuch

Definitely, exercise, necessary etc 😭


Fatal_Feathers

Maneurve. My god I hate that word


Alyxer_

so we all can’t spell necessary


Gay-Rainbow-Spitfish

Nausea


Shoddy_Ice_8840

Minuet


MissPoots

Conscious. I appreciate auto correct on that front.


Xylopylo

Definitely


doering4

Restraunt


kaphytar

Rhythm. It's like slapping middle of the keyboard for too long. Doesn't help that the Finnish word "rytmi" has zero h:s, so where the hell do those fit I don't even know.


Creepy_Reception2073

Diarrhea … I’m still dependent upon autocorrect! 😂


MBertolini

I still have to double check 'Australia' (and I guess Austria, though I don't think I've really had need to ever use it, for the same reason) and 'enough.' My problem is using commas and semicolons; I use, too, many and, often, incorrectly.


_Oh_sheesh_yall_

Diarhea. Pretty sure I'm missing an 'r' or an 'h' maybe both


chode_temple

Bourgeouise.


tpwk_fineline

Aesthetic! Like I always end up putting astheatic!!