# I can spell.  Really, I can.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-spell-really-i-can/58871>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 21, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-spell-really-i-can/58871 "2001-03-21T15:47:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-spell-really-i-can/58871/1 "2001-03-21T15:47:15Z")

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I’m at work, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to do anything productive today. They’ve sucked me dry the last two and a half weeks, and they owe me a day of goofing off.

So, I thought I’d post my “Misspellings Document”. A little M$ Word document that I keep open at all times, just in case I can’t remember how to spell a word. Sometimes I get it right, others I don’t, but Word’s spell-checker is my crutch. I’ll spare you from the whole thing, as some words are actually repeated and it’d be way too long, but this is page 8:

Abomination  
Consistency  
Orally  
Particularly  
Mentality  
Beginning  
Normally  
Misspell  
Subservience  
Extremism  
Existent  
Thoroughly  
Byproducts  
Necessarily  
Reveled  
Unnoticeable  
Superfluous  
Fanciful  
Muscles  
Philosophy  
Atoning  
Meditation  
Controlled  
Referred  
Shattering  
Reconstruct  
Cannibal  
Experiencing  
Antithesis  
Pseudo  
Orthopedic  
Verbatim  
Tournaments  
Airline  
Enamored  
Embarrassing  
Insight  
Bequeath  
Blasphemer  
Moot  
Yes, I really am this stupid. Just thought you all might get a kick out of seeing just how much. 😉

Anyway, what can you not spell?

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**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-spell-really-i-can/58871/2 "2001-03-21T16:01:01Z")

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Spelling is overated.

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**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-spell-really-i-can/58871/3 "2001-03-21T16:12:27Z")

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I am so not a fan of spelling – especially spelling aloud. I end up getting all confused and I can’t remember what I’ve said and I end up having to write it out anyway. Of course, this doesn’t stop my roommate from asking me how to spell things when she’s writing a paper.

Sample conversation from last night:  
My Darling Roommate: Hey, Jess? How do you spell “indubitable”?  
Me: Um… I - N - D - U… Hmm… Can’t you just say “unquestionable” instead?

(By the way, after writing it down, I figured out how to spell “indubitable.” Yay me! 😉 )