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Some of the words with 2 p's and 2 s's throw me sometimes, probably because I don't use them enough. I use to have a problem with 'license' too. Kept wanting to put an extra s in it. Six months ago I quit smoking and replaced that habit with word-find puzzles. I've worked over a thousand so far, and it's bound to help my spelling skills.
And my home state can't spell 'diamond'. Come on Kansas....
Look at the map...people in Wisconsin can't spell their own state right. LOL
'Necessary' is always a hard one for me! I'm a great speller but I tend to swap the repeated c and s segments.
When I was 9 at school someone told me this way to remember it. Silly - but I never spelt it wrong again (yes "spelt", I'm British). Never Eat Crisps, Eat Salad Sandwiches And Remain Young.
I guess we could Americanize it by replacing Crisps with Chips.
Interesting article. I've been a good speller my entire life. I won trophies in spelling bees as a teenager and a couple of times as an adult in my locality's annual Executive Spelling Bee. However, one word stumped me for decades and I always had to look it up in order to spell it correctly. The word? Forty. For the life of me, I couldn't remember whether it was spelled "fourty" or "forty." I finally got it through my thick head, but I still second-guess myself on occasion when I write it and have to think for a moment.
Ninety sometimes still gets me (want to leave out the 'e' for some odd reason).
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