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View Poll Results: Toughest word?
Carribean 2 6.67%
Morroco 1 3.33%
your/you're 2 6.67%
Columbia 0 0%
Eyjafjallajökull 18 60.00%
Other, please specify 7 23.33%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-05-2015, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Finland
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Anyway the hardest word to spell is probably the name of this Welsh town (http://http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ysiliogogogoch). The name of this hill in New Zealand maybe is even harder (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...enuakitanatahu), it must be a nightmare to spell it correctly
Yeah. The Finnish word ymmärtämättömyydellänsäkään (even with their non-understandingness) is a walk in the park compared to those.
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Old 04-05-2015, 02:15 PM
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Location: Coastal Georgia
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pallet, palette, palate
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Old 04-05-2015, 05:40 PM
 
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People always misspell my name, always

My name is Seweryn Szeliga
(pronounced sev-e-ryn)

It drives me nuts
Just because it's not an English name !
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Old 04-05-2015, 05:54 PM
 
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I never had an issue with there their and they're. or to too and two.

Rather my issue is with affect and effect. i can NEVER remember when to use which one, idk why I have like some sort of mental block with it. It's so annoying sometimes.

Also mediterranean .... i frequently eff that one up.
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Old 04-05-2015, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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People always misspell my name, always

My name is Seweryn Szeliga
Most people can 't spell Saggitarius Serious, either.
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Old 04-05-2015, 10:11 PM
 
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As xander already said, we don't have problems with immigrate / emigrate because those words are extremely similar to the Italian immigrare/emigrare. This similarities between English and Italian (for the Latin derived words) could be useful in a lot of cases, but can also give some trouble when the spelling are really similar but not exactly the same (for example "relevant" vs "rilevante", or "particular" vs "particolare").

About the first part, sincerely I started to notice that spelling and pronunciation could be a problem just when I started to study foreign languages, and in particular English. In fact, so that our spelling rules are really regular and every letter/syllable corresponds to a sound, I tend to don't focus so much on the spelling when I write in Italian (there are some little exceptions that require some more attention, i.e. "ce" vs "c'é", but really few if compared to English).

But I can't do the same with English, because in English words with the same pronunciation could have a different spelling, and words with the same spelling could have a different pronunciation!
The main problem that I have with English in practice is that I can't predict the spelling of a word when I hear it, nor I can predict the pronunciation of a word when I read it for the first time. In practice I have to remember the pronunciation and the letter by letter spelling of every new English word I learn.
well, I think your English is very good!

... Spelling in English isn't a problem for me, but I do prefer the way Italian words are spelt as they are heard.
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Old 04-05-2015, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Is the Canadian English more like USA or UK?
Listening to people from Canada it appears to sound more like USA.
I'm no expert, but it seems split 50/50 to me. Could just be my region though. I'm plunged pretty deep into America.

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Old 04-05-2015, 10:19 PM
 
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Uh huh.

I used to have a level of respect for you and your opinions.....
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Old 04-06-2015, 04:34 AM
 
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I think most can blame mis-spells on Auto-correct built in to their computers nowadays....I know I have had to edit more posts than ever since I got my new laptop..Drives me crazy.

In Canada fo r example many words such as color/colour indicate my color as INCORRECT...But up here we don't spell it with the "U" But knowing that makes me smile..so try to remember to include the "U's" as I post with mostly American's..Us Canadian's are non-plussed by such things

I'm sure those who post from outside of North America..and English is NOT first language can get confused...Personally, I'm impressed how well everybody handles it!!

You've obviously downloaded your web browser from an American website, which comes with a preinstalled American dictionary.

Microsoft and Mozilla (FireFox) also offer British English dictionaries as service packs that you can add to your browser and set as your default spell check. All of those nasty red lines and error messages will go away.
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Old 04-06-2015, 04:40 AM
 
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I never had an issue with there their and they're. or to too and two.

Rather my issue is with affect and effect.
Other words that give people problems are except and accept.

On another thread here, a Dutchman wrote that he drank "whine" instead of wine for Easter. That's funny. I love wine, but I hate whiners.

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