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bif

(25,064 posts) Tue Jan 14, 2025, 09:52 AM Jan 14

Difficult words and how you learned to spell them

It's kind of funny, I write for a living, and yet I'm a terrible speller!

Here are some of mine.
Renaissance--I worked in the Renaissance Center in Detroit
Odyssey--I coached a kids Odyssey of the Mind team
Chocolate--A friend opened a soda shop called the Chocolate Bar Cafe
Abyssinian--I have an Abyssinian cat

Yours?

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Difficult words and how you learned to spell them (Original Post) bif Jan 14 OP

Giraffe, scissors, spaghetti, and weird - I never get them correct and must rely on autocorrect. FSogol Jan 14 #1

I still almost always misspell Weird bif Jan 14 #2

a PIECE of pie begins with "pie" eShirl Jan 14 #3

And you can't separate without "a rat" FSogol Jan 14 #5

Thieves berniesandersmittens Jan 14 #4

Vulnerable EYESORE 9001 Jan 14 #6

Youghiogheny Earl_from_PA Jan 14 #7

Terrible speller so for many words I make up EverHopeful Jan 14 #8

to get her, together. AllaN01Bear Jan 14 #9

C h o c o l a t e Clouds Passing Jan 14 #10

Schenectady BigMin28 Jan 14 #11

FSogol

(47,263 posts)

1. Giraffe, scissors, spaghetti, and weird - I never get them correct and must rely on autocorrect.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 09:56 AM

Jan 14

I don't own a giraffe.

bif

(25,064 posts)

2. I still almost always misspell Weird

Reply to FSogol (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 09:59 AM

Jan 14

Thank god for autocorrect!

eShirl

(19,252 posts)

3. a PIECE of pie begins with "pie"

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:00 AM

Jan 14

FSogol

(47,263 posts)

5. And you can't separate without "a rat"

Reply to eShirl (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:09 AM

Jan 14

berniesandersmittens

(12,091 posts)

4. Thieves

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:02 AM

Jan 14

Spelled it wrong (e before i) in the final round of my 4th grade spelling bee. Runner up isn't so bad. Or so my therapist tells me 40 years later...

EYESORE 9001

(27,999 posts)

6. Vulnerable

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:21 AM

Jan 14

I still have to catch myself from spelling it ‘vulernable’.

Earl_from_PA

(211 posts)

7. Youghiogheny

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:24 AM

Jan 14

The river in southwest PA.

EverHopeful

(466 posts)

8. Terrible speller so for many words I make up

Reply to bif (Original post)

Tue Jan 14, 2025, 10:38 AM

Jan 14

those memory sentences we used as kids, like I Eat Green Caterpillars to remember Io, Europa, Ganymede, Calisto.

One from maybe 4th grade was "Look at nothing good u and good Eddie." Obviously don't need to make sense to help me remember.

Also like being able to blame autocorrect which I call autocorrupt. Used to be good at terrible handwriting to mask my misspelling.

One of my favorite bosses was so good, when I'd ask him how to spell a word, he'd only say the part I was struggling with.