Words you struggle to spell correctly.

[kiethton]

Don't laugh but 2 I struggle to spell for no logical reason (bar mild dyslexia):

Access
Restaurant

[StressedDave]

Cpt Stirling said:

Diahorhoea (sp.)

My old man used to do the payroll in the docks (London) and would often have the dockers coming in asking how to spell diarrhoea for the self-certification forms. His answer was sts.

[227bhp]

Separate and amateur.

[bongtom]

Quite and quiet.

And pistoneads. Always miss the h off.

[227bhp]

kiethton said:

Don't laugh but 2 I struggle to spell for no logical reason (bar mild dyslexia):

Access
Restaurant

I'd laugh at your user name more, especially if your real name is keith. There is another member on here who goes by the name of 'Fastpedeller' which could be 'Rapid vendor of dodgy goods' which I doubt is what he meant.

[toohuge]

Convenience - get it wrong everytime!

[mattyn1]

Granddad

or

Grandad.

[Gad-Westy]

Guage/gauge
meter/metre

These are problems in my line of work in engineering.

Necessary and definitely are ones I often cock up too although typing them just now, nailed them both, first time (erm, I hope)

[Frank7]

mattyn1 said:

Granddad

or

Grandad.

I used granddad for years, until I read online that granddad is the accepted U.S. spelling, and grandad the U.K. spelling, so I switched to grandad.
I have nothing against America, and I’d be proud to be an American if I’d been born there, but I wasn’t, and more to the point, I wouldn’t want people thinking I was trying to be seen as American by spelling words their way.

[227bhp]

Licence is one many get wrong, how someone can't get to and too correct is beyond comprehension though.

[langtounlad]

Often seen on here is the use of manufacture instead of manufacturer. An example, I think, of people spelling words as they hear them and rarely reading books, magazines etc where they would see the words used in the correct context. That also accounts for the very prevalent use of 'could of' etc instead of 'could have'. In both my examples the spell checker is unlikely to highlight the error.

[mattyn1]

A topical one -

Salisbury. Always think it should be Sailsbury.

[227bhp]

mattyn1 said:

A topical one -

Salisbury. Always think it should be Sailsbury.

I do my shopping there.

[mattyn1]

And I was going to suggest "accommodation" but thought that would just be daft!

it appears not.....

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/894558/...

However I doubt it warrants the twitter outrage intimated by the Express!

[Marty Funkhouser]

liaise i got wrong for years

subpoena likewise

I still occasionally misspell words with ie or ei

[Frank7]

227bhp said:

Licence is one many get wrong, how someone can't get to and too correct is beyond comprehension though.

I think, just think, that licence is U.K. spelling, and license U.S. spelling, like defence/defense.
Also, according to Google, licence is a noun, as in a licence, but license is a verb.
Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional licence, but the DVLA must license you to drive.

[mholt1995]

Accommodation and receive - need to re-train my muscle memory as whilst I consciously know how to spell them- I always type them incorrectly!

[kiethton]

227bhp said:

I'd laugh at your user name more, especially if your real name is keith. There is another member on here who goes by the name of 'Fastpedeller' which could be 'Rapid vendor of dodgy goods' which I doubt is what he meant.

It's not thankfully - Kieran

Just got likened to The Office's Big Keith a lot at uni....

[mattyn1]

kiethton said:

It's not thankfully - Kieran

Just got likened to The Office's Big Keith a lot at uni....

I had a friend at primary school calls Keith. His statement was “ I before E except after C ..... and in Keith”.

Stuck with me that for over 40 years!

[Astacus]

almost all of them for me.! Discovered I was dyslexic when we discovered our daughter was dyslexic...when I was about 50!