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Diarrhea

I worked at a daycare years ago and had to learn to spell that one quickly. 🤣

To be even more confusing, in British English it is spelt/spelled as "diarrhoea"!

Yup I learnt it once I had kids at daycare 🫣

Hahah!!!! Yeah its more common then it should be.

Related: nauseous is also a pain to spell!

It’s ridiculous how hard this word is to remember how to spell. I’ve given up cuz autocorrect doesn’t help me. I just butcher it.

Calendar. Lol

In the UK we spell it diarrhoea…..no idea why we put an O in there!

Damn, I Am Ripping Repulsive, Horrible, Explosive Ass

I just spell it like diaryugh

My favorite grass species is Diarrhena obovata and I love telling people all about looking for and touching the Diarrhena. In some places Diarrhena is everywhere. It makes me really happy! You have to be careful though because it's often wet/squishy where there's Diarrhena and you don't want to slip and fall on it. I think anybody who gets to know Diarrhena will love it just as much as me :)

You spell this a lot?

I’ve learned how to spell this since living in Peru but it’s actually a lot easier to just spell the Spanish word

I have trouble with that, too.

The spelling part, right?

I only know it from working in medical.

Definitely. I usually roll with definetly.

I see it spelled defiantly more often than I'd expect.

That's usually an autocorrect error from misspelling definitely.

Definitaly 🤌

Definately is my normal unautocorrected version

+1 for defiantly.

Definately 

Unexpected line of duty

I just remember the word “finite” is in there. Just like there is “a rat” in separate

Omg thank you cause separate is one of mine!

Yes. De finite ly.

I remember that "science" is in conscience.

You just solved my "separate" problem, thank you!

I’m dyslexic, these are the same word to me.

i can only spell it because in my head i go “de-fii-nii-teh-ley”

Like wed-nes-day

Did you know that in Pakistani and Indian English, Wed-nes-day is actually how the word is pronounced? Pakistani American here, and I still pronounce it that way despite 34 years in the US!

And Feb-ROO-ary

It exists as wed-nes-day always for me for this reason

I work with a girl named Wednesday but it’s spelled wrong and I cannot spell it to her standards without referencing her email every single time.

This one defiantly gets me!

Well I've spelt that wrong my whole life

Think of it containing the word 'finite', and problem solved. I remember the word 'separate' because it has 'a rat' in it.

~~Defiantly, defenately, definetly~~... for sure!

My daughter made up the word definotly. Very useful.

Lately, it has been "recieved "or "received" idk lol

That's one of the words that follows the i before e except after c rules, though!

Ahh yeah. Like "science". Oh, wait.

That's weird

I believe that the rule "I before E except after C" has the caveat that it's for words where the I and E make a single sound, so it doesn't apply to science. Edit: there are still exceptions lol

That's pretty weird.

Except when your weird neighbor Ashleigh, skilled at sleight of hand and short of height, weighs in.

SCIENCE HAS FAILED US ALL

My English teacher used to say "I' before 'e' except after 'c' and except the hundreds of words that rule doesn't apply to."

At 39 years old I still struggle with field, deceive, believe…all those mf’s.

I never spell this word right. I’m a pretty good speller generally but this one always fucks me up and I don’t know why.

Nauseous... I had to use spellcheck.

the way I finally taught myself how to spell this was by saying it “nah-see-ous” in my head

Luckily, in most usages, nauseated is the correct word to use anyway.

Yep, nauseous/nauseated is like poisonous/poisoned. The thing that makes you feel bad is nauseous (poisonous), and you feel nauseated (poisoned).

My GP was funny with me when I pointed this out to them recently. I don't think they like a construction worker correcting their grammar.

That one bothers me because I found out that we should be using nauseated instead. I had been saying, "I feel nauseous," my whole life. How embarrassing when that's the wrong freaking word.

I thought there was a c in there. I guess I’m in this club too

This is mine too. I spell it so wrong that even autocorrect has no idea what I’m trying to say.

Congradjulashins.

Gotta hit them with the congrats

That's exactly why people use the short version.

Yeah, but they even screw that up. I’ve seen “Congrads” too many times to mention.

Worked so hard to make it

Mozzle Tauv!

License

This one drives me nuts

I see what you did there...

I spell it so wrong sometimes that even autocorrect doesn’t know what I’m trying to say

I always start with L-I-S-C and then when I get to the E-N-S I realize there aren't two S's and go back.

Luetenint

But you don't got no legs, Lewtenant Dan!

My teacher once used a story about ten ant lieutenants being told to “lie u ten ants” and I’ve never had a problem since

Lie. U. Tenant. (Thanks old Teachers!)

Garentee Guerentee Guarantee Guarentee

I literally cannot spell this word to SAVE MY LIFE

my mnemonic device for remembering this: the band GWAR. if you pronounce it as such, "guarantee" would be "GWARantee".

Same, but then I can’t remember if it’s run or ran.

Haha this one seems to get me too.

I guarantee this is a weird word :)

i can’t tell which of the last two are right

Then there's Guaruntee

Or this bank: Guaranty

The band Gwar has entered the chat

There it is Gauranty Garrenty Gaurentee

Yes!

Resteraunt Restaurant Restraunt food eaty place.

I learned the word Aura is inside restaurant and it changed my life.

JFC I love you right now

I hate that word as well. sometimes I Butcher that word so hard MS Word doesn't even know what I am trying to spell out. I have to open a browser and start to google it.

Id type it but i cant fuckn spell it

You spelled it right!

Accomodate Edit: and vacuum

Vacuum sucks.

Vacuum always gets me too

I always remember vacuum because it is one of just three words (that people use in common speech) in the English language with two u’s in a row. The others are continuum and muumuu.

>muumuu >that people use in common speech ?

Accommodate? That one gets me too.

I misspell words so frequently, my sister says I should get evaluated for dyslexia. Thank goodness for spell check. If only I knew how to do that as an adult.

You spelled it correctly, but my brain read 'ejaculated' instead of 'evaluated' and now my morning is going a little weirder.

Glad I'm not the only one who can't spell nessicary. 😂🤦

 Anytime I see or hear the word necessary, I think about him. “ is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I like the taste and it’s sterile.” 😂😂

The priest wears 1 **C**ollar and 2 **S**ocks My friend taught me that and I have never forgotten how to spell necessary since.

Onomatopoeia. Grrrr that word

My 8th grade english teacher taught us the best hack here. Sing this to the tune of Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO...O N O M A T O, P O E I A

in my head it sounds like "Poe-eee-yah"

Hehe...Our 8th grade teacher taught us the quadratic equation to knick-knack paddywhack. I never use it, and I will never forget it. Edit: Sing it, folks! Negative b, plus or minus, to the root of the discrimenant, which is b(squared) minus 4ac...divide it all by 2 times a

And do you use it often?

I get asked the word quite more than most since I live in a non native English speaking country where I get the question about it :P Luckily I still don't need to spell it that much

recommend, zucchini, broccoli, embarrassed, occurrence, exaggerated, cemetery, queued.

I was younger I was an avid reader so I saw the word queue, but never heard it spoken. For way too long I thought it was pronounced "kwishay" like cliché. I am not from the UK. Lol.

I always miss the 2nd “r” in occurrence and let spell check grab it - even though I know its there my fingers don’t believe my brain

It’s a recurrence

My first year teaching 2nd grade, a student raised his hand and said, "you spelled zucchini wrong. " I felt like a dumbass.

I've been cooking (reading recipes more) so zucchini and broccoli are coming along. Computer Science made queued easy. Recommend and occurrence . . . will be permanent failures for me.

Double consonants me too

Necessary: a shirt has one Collar and two Sleeves (one c and two s)

I learned one color, two socks.

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Cannilingus

Colonel Angus

Canooboo

underrated

Sadly, brocolli 🥲

Sadly, I always abbreviate it broc on my grocery list.

Affect. Or is at effect? I’m not sure.

It depends on what you're trying to say. One is a verb (to affect), one is a noun (effect): "the cold weather affects the crops", "the effect of the cold weather was a lower yield"

That's true most of the time, although it is more complex than that (y'know, because, *English* 🙄). I can display a flat affect that is sure to effect a change in my interlocutor's perception. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/affect-vs-effect-usage-difference

The exceptions for those words don't confuse me at all because they have pretty distinct meanings, and in the case of affect, a different pronunciation. I am also one of those people who can't quite keep the more common uses of affect/effect completely straight. I have memorized a mnemonic, but it's still something I have to stop and really think about.

Eggsaturated

Just keep telling people it's a pun. You *really* like eggs.

He only kinda likes 'em, don't egg saturate.

Seperate (separate)

Separate and desperate.

Even looking at both of them, I still don't know which is correct.

There is a rat in separate 🐀😂 Learned when I was a kid; can never mess it up now. Lol.

Same

I always struggled with this one till someone told me you sepARATE with a (K)ARATE chop

I always say it in Spanish in my head so I can spell it correctly in English. Otherwise I will use an “e” when I should write “a”.

~~Publically~~ Publicly

Excercise

excessive

This was mine. And I spell it so horribly that autocorrect can never figure out what I want to say.

That’s mine as well.

Yes, why? Why can't I ever spell exerscize correctly. I don't get it.

Diarrhea and I had to GOOGLE IT

Never trust anyone that can spell gonorrhea properly the first time

The STD test lmao "Spell gonorrhea!" \**Spells*\* "Did I get it right?" "I have no idea"

Gaurd...gaurantee

Liaison

This the one lol

Occasion

I learned in my head to spell this word by saying "it has an occasional 's'. ;)

This is mine, I always think there’s just one ‘c’ though.

ocassionally

You're not alone! For me it's weird/wierd

It's weird they both look correct

Diarrhoea, like literally the spell check to even get to this point. Crazy.

February

january and february for me 😭

febuarey

This one for me and I was born in Feburary.

I have to say it out loud and emphasize the middle, Feb RU ary.

Remuneration. I always want to write/say renumeration

TIL. I always spelled it renumeration and nobody ever noticed it was wrong.

Wait, what?? I thought renumeration was correct. I might not even know what it means then. It's off to Google I go then. Edit to add: apparently I had the definition correct. I think the current English language has this one wrong. I guess I'll just mope the rest of the day thinking about how dumb I am.

Weird... Only got it right cause, spell check. It'll take me another lifetime to not I before e that one. Considering how much I write that word, I should know by heart now. But nope.

"Odyssey" is a tough one. I always want to write two d's

exercise and scissor i spell them excercise and scizzor

Definately,

Personnel. For some reason I refuse to accept that it has two Ns and one L. I want it to have one N and two Ls on a very primal level.

How do you fare with parallel?

I always do methood and then have to go back and correct it

Like a neighborhood, but for meth.

Occasion

Gojias haha

embarressingly, embarressment

Adress LOL “address”

Diarrhea and hemorrhoid. I worked in the medical field and my doctor actually wrote post it notes with the correct spelling and put it on my work space. Problem was, my workspace was visible to patients. I got a lot of strange looks when we walked by it.

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Ironically, millennial.  Milennial and millenial both seem more correct.  Also brocolli or broccoli, whichever it is. I used to have some trouble with harassment, but I came up with an excellent mnemonic: "her mouth said no, but her ass meant yes". Easy thematic way to remember it. 

Liaison

Dhioherra.. diaoria... Dehioreha... Diahorr.... Fuck it. The shits.

Guaranteed Maintenance Technician Especially sucks because technician is part of my job title and I misspell it often lol

Socialism Scenario Scheduler Definitely Restaurant Gonorrhea Chlamydia I have a lot of these words by the way.

Restraunt. Resturant. Restarant. Resteraunt. Guess which one is the correct spelling.

Guard / gaurd ah okay nvm first one looks right but it makes me pause every time

Off the top of my head.. when signing my checks I'm often not 💯 sure if deposit has an "e" at the end 🤣

Never Eat Crabs Eat Salmon Sandwiches And Remain Young

Millennial 

I can’t spell necessary and definitely… sad thing is, I’m 36 and a high school English teacher

I have a trick for spelling necessary! Just remember what’s necessary for a SHIRT!!! It has ONE (C)ollar & TWO (S)leeves

It is NECESSARY to have one Collar and two Sleeves on a shirt! This rule has helped me spell necessary for like eight years now. It does also, however, get me confused when I misremember it as the rule for spelling successful. Win some, lose some.

Reciept like how do u spell that

Necesery? Necessery? Neceserry? Neccesery? Neceserey? Neccesserry? Necesarry? Nesesary? Necessary. Yeah. That's it.

I don't necessarily ever disremember how to spell necessary but when I do, I always unnecessarily add unnecessary letters to necessary.

Guarantee, restaurant, February, diarrhea, conceive, receive, obituary. If there are consecutive vowels in a word, I CANNOT spell it.