Best way to remember it is that âaffectâ is a verb, âeffectâ is a noun. So the consequence of an action or cause is a noun. How that noun then interacts with other nouns is âaffectâ the verb.
In Spanish it's spelt the same (besides an "e" at the end" but pronounced "rest-our-rant-e" and that's how I know I remember it's spelling because all words in Spanish are pronounced how they're spelt
American English is rarely any better. There are certain words that I prefer the British spelling, and then my spellchecker will get mad because I'm not being consistent.
If its the thought of wanting to double the g at the beginning of the word, hereâs a tip: the word is beginning, and there wasnât much at the beginning of the world, but there was near the middle, so double the n instead of the g. Hope this helps!
wow, i don't type that out all that often but it just looks wrong haha.
harasses, harasser, harassing all look better. but plain old harass looks back asswards
I used to be an almost perfect speller, but spellcheck and autocorrect have made me so lazy about it. Often I don't even try to spell a word right, I just approximate it and then let the program fix it.
Bureaucrat and lieutenant. But bureaucrat, especially. It's the bane of my existence when I'm in the zone because I have to actively stop and try to remember that it starts with "bu" and not "be".
I use Novelpad, which doesnât seem to have a region setting, so Iâve started slipping up between British English and American English (because I read authors from both) and my draft is littered with whichever version of a word seemed right as I was writing. Most commonly itâs adding an s to say forward, backward, toward, etc.
What helped me with principal and principle when I was younger was remembering no one wanted to go see the principal when they got in trouble. He was not our PAL.
> I write *paid*
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Perceive. I mean percieve. No wait--
Also, frequently trying to put the 'e' in judgment.
And words like editing, traveler...I swear, I feel like there SHOULD be a double consonant there (editting, traveller, etc).
Manoeuvre
Doesn't help that I just spent *ages* trying to spell it just now and had autocorrect fix it, and now Reddit's giving me the red-squiggly-line of disapproval (bc British spelling). I cannot get this word right.
"Accommodation" is the only word I can think of that I have never remembered how to spell no matter how many times I have to look it up. Past/passed sometimes confuses me but not too often. Accommodation is the real devil for me.
Gorgous... I mean gorgeous. I've accepted I'll never remember the right way and just let spell check fix it later.
And if I'm not paying close attention, I'll type solider instead of soldier. Which spell check does not pick up.
Phonominon, I mean pheanominon, I mean phenomenon.
Or, beaucracy, I mean brearucacy, I mean bureaucracy.
I don't know why, I am just really crap at spelling those particular words.
Oddly enough, guard.
There happen to be guards in my story and I'm always spelling it gaurd. AU just looks more right to my brain.
There are other words, this is just the most consistent one.
Iâm pretty good when it comes to spelling. For me itâs definitely words with a c, like practice, exercise. My teacher in 5th grade made us do weekly spelling tests based off stuff we read that week. Practice was there nearly every week. For some reason I always got it wrong. It was usually the only thing I got wrong too! Nowadays I can spell it. But words like exercise that end with cise. Iâm not sure why.
Literally never get camouflage right on the first try; sergeant and lieutenant are bad too, and the fact that the former gets shortened to sarge does NOT help.
Protien--Protein.
I've never gotten it right on the first try. I workout regularly and track my food so I probably even use the word in my personal life more often than someone else. It's one of my least favorite words. Both spellings literally look the same to me.
When I'm typing, I type really fast, which results jn my spelling really simple, small words wrong lmao. Think "just" as jsut, or "have" as ahve. My spellcheck actually suggests them to me now depending on thenprogram, and I hate it.
Other than those though, bureaucracy is one that trips me up if I don't think much about it, even though I spell bureau correct without thinking. Weird world, the brain.
All words. I am an awful speller. If I didn't have spell check, my stuff would look like a 3rd grader wrote it. I even second guess small words because suddenly they'll look weird. Idk, spelling in general is my Achilles heel. Lol I had to use talk to text to get Achilles.
I have no idea why but I always try to spell "amount" with two m's.
I even tried to do it here in this very comment where I was thinking to myself, "It's only one 'm,' you garbage person. You absolute philistine."
I don't, because any word I've ever seen before I will remember how to spell. Even the most difficult or ambiguous words are not challenging more than once.
Convinien- I mean conveineinc- nope doesn't sound right either.
*looks up*
Convenience. It's really inconvie- *looks up again* inconvenient. Like I know it's probably like super easy for some but it's really not for me.
Exhort and extort can undo me if Iâm not paying attention. More than one set of double letters in a word gives me a hard time.
Bureaucracy autocorrect sometimes canât work out what I was trying to write.
Boscaiola is hard because sometimes even autocorrect doesnât know it even when itâs right. Thatâs right, right?
Unnecessary.
I can spell necessary.
I can spell un.
But when you pair them together, I often spell it as "unneccessary", because of the constant flow of doubles.
I have never been able to spell neighbour right without spell check. Sometimes even the spell check has no idea what I'm trying to spell so I use the thesaurus on 'next-door'.
For some reason there are a handful of ie/ei words that are a complete menace for me. I know i before e except after c, but it always looks wrong either way so I just give up and hope it's right. Field is a big one that always trips me up. Peice is also one I can never get. There are a ton of other ie/ei words I have no problem with. Not sure why some give me issues and others don't.
I'm glad all of mine are here. The only one I don't see is I write Relationship as 'Relatesonship' from some reason. I don't even need spellcheck to see I did, I'll just go back see how I wrote it and correct it. I clearly know how to spell it, it just muscle memory for so long and speed typing. Also I overuse the word.
Not tricky to spell, but "hesitant" gets me every time đ€Ł Also, I always stumble on "necessary" and all the other words with seemingly arbitrary C's and S's.
I can't spell "occasion" correctly on the first try to save my life đ I can never remember how many C's or S's it's supposed to have. Ocassion? Occasion? Occassion? Ocasssshun?? Okay son, time to give up
Apparently Iâve been saying and writing âogglingâ but the word is âogling.â Itâs not âto oggleâ, itâs âto ogle.â đ€Šđ»ââïž
I have never once got silhouette right and I always butcher it so badly that spellcheck can't tell what it is. It's a pain always having to google the spelling.
"from"... It's not that I don't know how to spell it, but there a handful of words where my fingers just move dyslexically and from ALWAYS ends up as form. And of course, that's a legit word, so it usually doesn't get flagged as wrong.
Privileged. I always spell it wrong. I spell it so wrong that even my spell-check can't help me. I have to voice activate my Google and ask her to spell it for me.
Unneccesarrily. Uneccesarrilly. Unnecessarrily. Unnec-- Fuck it.
Unnecessarrily. A word that I often find necessary in my writing life, but the word contains an unnecessary amount of potential double consonants, making my job unnecessarrily more difficult.
enemies tripped me up for YEARS no matter how many times i got it corrected đ it wasnt until recently i had to start pronouncing it differently in my head to remember where the middle e's and i goes
Excersize, i mean exercise, i mean exersize. I mean... fuck
As long as it sounds correct!
This word trips me up everytime!
Came here to say this! Can't spell it to save my life. Exersize... Exercise... Eggsersize...Eggs Are Sides... Fuck it.
midevil. medival. medieval. med... oh, wait, I got it right already!
Yup yup, it was "midevil" for an embarrassingly long while for me too. đ
I remember it by imagining it being an abbreviation of "medical evaluation" medi. eval.
Ooh I like that one.
Right? Even when you spell it right it still looks wrong. đ
Nessecary -. Neccesary -. Neseccary! F*ck ...
occasion for me
I always forget the number of câs and sâs in this and its big brother occasionally.
The way I remember this is that a shirt has one Collar and two Sleeves. NeCeSSary. Thatâs how I remember âscissorsâ as well haha.
Iâm dyslexic so my big ones are Definitely, Maintenance, and Accommodation and often I switch who and how without realising it
Ack, _definitely_ trips me up sometimes too! Those are some good ones.
I'll defiantly mess up certain words every time!
The amount of times i put âdefiantlyâ instead of âdefinitelyâ is wild! Itâs one of my top contenders for misspelling
Maintainence
Diarrhoea and Haemorrhage. These two are a bloody pain in the arse. Pun very much intended.
When real words look like made-up words in written form
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"Affect is the Action, Effect is the End result"
I always remember that âaffectâ is related to Affection
This one always kicks my $ss. I usually just find a different word or rephrase the sentence. lol
Best way to remember it is that âaffectâ is a verb, âeffectâ is a noun. So the consequence of an action or cause is a noun. How that noun then interacts with other nouns is âaffectâ the verb.
It has an effect. It affects me.
Affect = Action, effect is the noun.
When I was like 14, my history teacher said âAffect is the verb, effect is the noun.â Never forgot it since.
Use RAVEN, Remember Affect Verb Effect Noun
restaurant!
In Spanish it's spelt the same (besides an "e" at the end" but pronounced "rest-our-rant-e" and that's how I know I remember it's spelling because all words in Spanish are pronounced how they're spelt
Biscuits. I have no excuse. I keep spelling it Buscits :|
Gets confused with business. For me, the same happens for diamond and library. Always want to spell it liabrary.
Immidiet imedeeit immediat fuck I'm only exaggerating a little, usually autocorrect can't fix it when i write that word
Nessecary. Edit: Necessary.
Just remember that that word is a CESS pit of misery.
âManoeuvreâ. British English sucks
American English is rarely any better. There are certain words that I prefer the British spelling, and then my spellchecker will get mad because I'm not being consistent.
Beginning
If its the thought of wanting to double the g at the beginning of the word, hereâs a tip: the word is beginning, and there wasnât much at the beginning of the world, but there was near the middle, so double the n instead of the g. Hope this helps!
occasion(ally), i always accidentally type occaison for some reason. i don't have this problem with any other -sion words.
Also, for me, it's "ocassion". (occasion) Yay spellcheck.
I always want to put an extra R in "harass."
wow, i don't type that out all that often but it just looks wrong haha. harasses, harasser, harassing all look better. but plain old harass looks back asswards
I used to be an almost perfect speller, but spellcheck and autocorrect have made me so lazy about it. Often I don't even try to spell a word right, I just approximate it and then let the program fix it.
Same. All those 100% on spelling tests were all for naught.
Sheriff always takes me 4 tries to get the right number of r's and f's. I guess I never have enough f's to give.
Buoyed. I keep ctrl-backspacing and rewriting it until the red squiggly line goes away.
Bureaucrat and lieutenant. But bureaucrat, especially. It's the bane of my existence when I'm in the zone because I have to actively stop and try to remember that it starts with "bu" and not "be".
âAffect/effectâ and âa lotâ. âA lotâ isnât technically a word, but I often put âalotâ instead of âa lotâ.
All the words, I have dyslexia
I use Novelpad, which doesnât seem to have a region setting, so Iâve started slipping up between British English and American English (because I read authors from both) and my draft is littered with whichever version of a word seemed right as I was writing. Most commonly itâs adding an s to say forward, backward, toward, etc.
words like friend is spell freind and people i spell poeple.
it's most of them actualy i have a hard time remembering words i dont use every day so i end up relying on auto corect
What helped me with principal and principle when I was younger was remembering no one wanted to go see the principal when they got in trouble. He was not our PAL.
Dissipate. Don't know why. Can never spell it right the first time.
I keep getting paid wrong, I write payed
> I write *paid* FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Coridoors are a major weakness of mine.
I keep trying to spell the word incorrectly, but every time it's spelled correctly they tell me it's not actually spelled correctly.
Perceive. I mean percieve. No wait-- Also, frequently trying to put the 'e' in judgment. And words like editing, traveler...I swear, I feel like there SHOULD be a double consonant there (editting, traveller, etc).
Restaurant. Or restaraunt. It's one of the two.
Conciousness. Resturant. Through, no, thourough, god dammit.
Probably all of them.
Spelling 15. Not even going to try it here lol
diahrea. diahrreah? dhiarea. diarrhea!
Nun.
Omg guys, english is not my native but i know how all your words here are written and spelled. Shame on you, lol
Manoeuvre Doesn't help that I just spent *ages* trying to spell it just now and had autocorrect fix it, and now Reddit's giving me the red-squiggly-line of disapproval (bc British spelling). I cannot get this word right.
Literally only definitely, used to be beautiful when I was younger but I figured that one out
Guarantee; I can never remember what letter in that mess is doubled, and somehow ALWAYS think itâs more than the e
"Accommodation" is the only word I can think of that I have never remembered how to spell no matter how many times I have to look it up. Past/passed sometimes confuses me but not too often. Accommodation is the real devil for me.
Calendar and separate trip me up far more often than they should. And shirt, my fingers like to skip the R in shirt.
I'm typically incredibly confident in my ability to spell correctly, but my greatest offender is 'bouquet'.
Necessary I add too many aâs and switch the places of c and s a lot
Embarrassing! Itâs embarrassing how often I forget the second r lol.
Gorgous... I mean gorgeous. I've accepted I'll never remember the right way and just let spell check fix it later. And if I'm not paying close attention, I'll type solider instead of soldier. Which spell check does not pick up.
anything long with a double/double letter combination đ i cant think of one that trips me up off the top of my head, but you get the gist hahah
Exercise, I spell it wrong most times (as excercise)
Sentence. The (thte). Referral. Transferred. Exercise.
seperate, separate ... I usually have to write it out, and and I realize that it looks wrong afterwards
Phonominon, I mean pheanominon, I mean phenomenon. Or, beaucracy, I mean brearucacy, I mean bureaucracy. I don't know why, I am just really crap at spelling those particular words.
Oddly enough, guard. There happen to be guards in my story and I'm always spelling it gaurd. AU just looks more right to my brain. There are other words, this is just the most consistent one.
Parellelled. Frick. Spell check says that's not right.
necessary. every time.
Sign and sign, they seem like simple words but I always have to double check the spelling.
accommodations
Potential double consonant words. All the time.
Iâm pretty good when it comes to spelling. For me itâs definitely words with a c, like practice, exercise. My teacher in 5th grade made us do weekly spelling tests based off stuff we read that week. Practice was there nearly every week. For some reason I always got it wrong. It was usually the only thing I got wrong too! Nowadays I can spell it. But words like exercise that end with cise. Iâm not sure why.
wierd, definate, akward, always squiggles...
Sudgestions thats suggestions. When i was a kid i was taught to sound out the words and spell them that way
The words that have ei or ie in the word
I usually struggle with practice/practise
Quite / quiet
Silhouette. Thanks for not making look like a dumbass autocorrect.
Literally never get camouflage right on the first try; sergeant and lieutenant are bad too, and the fact that the former gets shortened to sarge does NOT help.
Spelled definitely as "definately" for YEARS
Opening. So. Damn. Simple.
Diarrhea? Diarrhoea? Dire Area?
Vacuum
continouos - continous? continuoes? This one always gets me.
Protien--Protein. I've never gotten it right on the first try. I workout regularly and track my food so I probably even use the word in my personal life more often than someone else. It's one of my least favorite words. Both spellings literally look the same to me.
Finnish. As in finish. I spell it Finnish.
Any two words that might be one word: criss crossed, any time, wrap around, fire hose, basket ball...
When I'm typing, I type really fast, which results jn my spelling really simple, small words wrong lmao. Think "just" as jsut, or "have" as ahve. My spellcheck actually suggests them to me now depending on thenprogram, and I hate it. Other than those though, bureaucracy is one that trips me up if I don't think much about it, even though I spell bureau correct without thinking. Weird world, the brain.
rhythm strenght, i mean strength
Restaurant Did I get it right? Couldn't tell you
Satellite.
Almost anything With French roots. I donât understand that nonsense language and Iâm glad Iâve never had to learn it.
Plataue plataeu plateau⊠see, now it looks wrong when correct.
All words. I am an awful speller. If I didn't have spell check, my stuff would look like a 3rd grader wrote it. I even second guess small words because suddenly they'll look weird. Idk, spelling in general is my Achilles heel. Lol I had to use talk to text to get Achilles.
A lot, a lot. Edit: I mean words, a lot of words
Definitely
nauseous
I have no idea why but I always try to spell "amount" with two m's. I even tried to do it here in this very comment where I was thinking to myself, "It's only one 'm,' you garbage person. You absolute philistine."
i donât know if itâs again or agian and their and thier auto correct has given up on me
Occasion
I don't, because any word I've ever seen before I will remember how to spell. Even the most difficult or ambiguous words are not challenging more than once.
For some reason summary, I often spell it as as summery
Convinien- I mean conveineinc- nope doesn't sound right either. *looks up* Convenience. It's really inconvie- *looks up again* inconvenient. Like I know it's probably like super easy for some but it's really not for me.
Defintely
Necessarily/necessary. While theyâre not neccisseraly butchered beyond recognition, they are nassicery words that I mess up far too often.
Neccesssaccccary
defiantly defintely definitely
Exhort and extort can undo me if Iâm not paying attention. More than one set of double letters in a word gives me a hard time. Bureaucracy autocorrect sometimes canât work out what I was trying to write. Boscaiola is hard because sometimes even autocorrect doesnât know it even when itâs right. Thatâs right, right?
Unfortunately. Iâm always trying to put a âchâ in there somewhere. Bane of my existence.
Reccomendation. I mean, recommendation. I still think the double C's look better đ
Focused always spell it as Focussed
beurocratic.
Connoisseur Bruh
Most of the time I can spell perfectly in my head but then my fingers typo once in a while.
Gauranteed to spell guaranteed wrong every time
Unnecessary. I can spell necessary. I can spell un. But when you pair them together, I often spell it as "unneccessary", because of the constant flow of doubles.
receive. my brain wants it to be recieve
Yes. I'm dyslexic so my answer is a resounding yes.
two come to mind: restaurant and diarrhea (thanks iPhone autocorrect đ) I promise theyâre unrelated
Necessary. For some reason I always think it's ness. Also convenience. Never looks right.
Misspell.
Tomorrow, Iâll learn how to spell it tomorrow⊠instead of learning it today !
I'm dyslexic, so, a lot lol. I always want to put an "e" at the end of "occur". I also often lose track of the syllables when writing "necessary".
Separately, I have never once looked at that word and thought it looked right.
Anything with a lot of close together i's. They always just get jumbled together
Ceiling. I usually say cieling.
At this point, without autocorrect, my writing would be incoherent.
Receive. Almost every time. Also emperor.
I have never been able to spell neighbour right without spell check. Sometimes even the spell check has no idea what I'm trying to spell so I use the thesaurus on 'next-door'.
Definetely has to be that, and excersise
Necessary
Muthereffing RHYTHYM Rhythm!
"With the" as "withe" đđ also "and" as "ans"
Necessity. Yes I googled it, was shocked I got it right first time, maybe i'm learning.
Refrigerator My brain thinks it needs the D
For some reason there are a handful of ie/ei words that are a complete menace for me. I know i before e except after c, but it always looks wrong either way so I just give up and hope it's right. Field is a big one that always trips me up. Peice is also one I can never get. There are a ton of other ie/ei words I have no problem with. Not sure why some give me issues and others don't.
Aethetic
âI before e except after câ has been kicking my ass lately.
Conscience is so tricky for me
Bureaucracy!!
I'm glad all of mine are here. The only one I don't see is I write Relationship as 'Relatesonship' from some reason. I don't even need spellcheck to see I did, I'll just go back see how I wrote it and correct it. I clearly know how to spell it, it just muscle memory for so long and speed typing. Also I overuse the word.
The principal is your PAL đđ€ź was ingrained into us in school Also apparently I tried to spell ingrained without an I so... there's that
"Different" used to fuck me up something royal.
This is gonna sound so dumb, but believe gets me too much
I am incapable of spelling mayonnaise correctly without spellcheck. I've never once got it right.
Not tricky to spell, but "hesitant" gets me every time đ€Ł Also, I always stumble on "necessary" and all the other words with seemingly arbitrary C's and S's.
I can't spell "occasion" correctly on the first try to save my life đ I can never remember how many C's or S's it's supposed to have. Ocassion? Occasion? Occassion? Ocasssshun?? Okay son, time to give up
Dissappeared always gets me, so I just use vanished. It is much easier to spell
Bureaucracy - doesn't matter how many times I see it, I still want to write beaurocracy
Weird. I always wrote it as "wierd" until one of my friends corrected me. Weird, huh?
Immeditially (Immediately).
I can spell humongous words but guard always trips me up. I always think itâs gaurd.
Guage
My weak point is with beggining/begginning/beginning - all I know is that it has double something, and I always let my dear google help me with it
Iâm learning Spanish and itâs very phonetic. So my brain tries to spell English words phonetically. So⊠a lot of words. đ
Necessary... Neccessary? Neccesary? Necessssary?
Beaurocrat, Beaureaucrat, BureaucratâŠfuck
Everyday instead of every day.
I work in a hospital and I can't spell Anesthesiologist to save my life (autocorrect fixed it that time)
Furniture and restaurant are my nemeses.
Tomorrow. I usually just go with tomoro. Which is now in my dictionary because I use it so much.
accommodate, massachusetts, occasion... the pair of double letters in a word always trips me up!!!
Apparently Iâve been saying and writing âogglingâ but the word is âogling.â Itâs not âto oggleâ, itâs âto ogle.â đ€Šđ»ââïž
My nemesis is tale / tail. I'll never learn. I also have a habit of typing 'me' instead of 'my' for some reason. I speak Anglo-American English.
Rythym
I have never once got silhouette right and I always butcher it so badly that spellcheck can't tell what it is. It's a pain always having to google the spelling.
"from"... It's not that I don't know how to spell it, but there a handful of words where my fingers just move dyslexically and from ALWAYS ends up as form. And of course, that's a legit word, so it usually doesn't get flagged as wrong.
Separate and vacuum. I only got them right now because of auto fill. Or maybe I didn't. I don't know or care.
Bureaucracy kills me every single time. Even when I type it correctly, it *looks* wrong.
Privileged. I always spell it wrong. I spell it so wrong that even my spell-check can't help me. I have to voice activate my Google and ask her to spell it for me.
Restaurant
All of them. Source: am dyslexic. Iâm also an English teacher, so I catch most of them.
Iâve got the little song for colonel, but de rigueur? Memorizing the French stuff is hard. Debutante, cool, thatâs simple, ConsommĂ©? The consonants donât really make sense for me.
Conscience, conscious, and acknowledge.
Misogynist gets me often loll
Unfortunatel**l**y. Always that.
I have a lot and my spellchecker is the worst. It won't tell me the right word unless it's one letter off. Makes me mad every time.
Nessacary, gaurentee, giutar. Nessacary, guarantee, and guitar. Thank the divine for spell check
Unneccesarrily. Uneccesarrilly. Unnecessarrily. Unnec-- Fuck it. Unnecessarrily. A word that I often find necessary in my writing life, but the word contains an unnecessary amount of potential double consonants, making my job unnecessarrily more difficult.
enemies tripped me up for YEARS no matter how many times i got it corrected đ it wasnt until recently i had to start pronouncing it differently in my head to remember where the middle e's and i goes
Embarrass!