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Old 06-01-2017, 07:12 AM
 
Location: equator
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Bureaucracy is always tough for me. I had to stop and think just now.


And yes, conscious and conscience....really tough. My husband calls me his "spell-check" but still....
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:14 AM
 
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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
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:25 AM
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'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.
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Old 06-01-2017, 07:54 AM
 
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Ridiculous.

I always spell it like ridicolous.
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Old 06-01-2017, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Always want to put 2 Ms in tomorrow.


Ever hit spell check and nothing comes up? So you think there is something wrong with it? I appreciate all my English teachers every day.
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Old 06-01-2017, 09:37 AM
 
Location: East TN
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Guard, I always want to spell it with the a and u reversed.
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Old 06-01-2017, 09:51 AM
 
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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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Old 06-01-2017, 12:58 PM
 
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Guard, I always want to spell it with the a and u reversed.

Gauge always gets me. It's the opposite problem.
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Old 06-01-2017, 01:41 PM
 
Location: East Mt Airy, Philadelphia
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Covfefe
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Old 06-01-2017, 01:45 PM
 
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Covfefe
You beat me to it, Frank!
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