Mine biggest one is “explanation”. If I’m explaining something to you, shouldn’t I be giving you an “explaination”? I’m not “explaning” it, you know…
How 'bout you?
shoppe
I hate the “re” when it should be “er” type thing
You know , “theatre,” “metre,” etc
I also hate “colonel”
Convience.
Rember.
Mfg. in place of mfr. or mfd. It means manufacturing. Ing ing ing. Nothing else. OK?
Indentification. I think of it as a shallow depression in your skull, perhaps in the shape of your Social Security number.
Heighth and lenght. Especially if pronounced right and still spelled wrong.
Corp. The s in corps is silent, shitbirds, it’s not invisible!
Sargeant. Another goof ex-military personnel seem awfully fond of. (No one has trouble with lieutenant, interestingly enough.)
Dissapoint.
Pidgeon. It’s an actor, it’s an actress too, but it’s not a bird.
Dalmation. There is no such verb as “to dalmate.” What would it mean, anyway?
Pyschic. This should be pronounced “piskic” and mean, well, nothing.
Paradigm. I know how it’s pronounced, but my mind always goes to “para-diggem” first and I have to quickly self-correct.
Sweetheart. Always mentally say “sweeth.” Can’t we hyphenate it or something?
forty: Why not fourty?
Wednesday… should be Wendsday
February… the first R is dropped in almost all pronunciations where I live
Its and It’s… I can never remember which is which.
Tequila, and ie or ei combo word and any word in which I makes an E sound. Can’t we just have e Make Eee and Ehh and I make Iii and Ihh.
Every word that’s on the “frequently misspelled words” page of a dictionary or study guide. Can’t we have some universal authority just declare that these are spelled how thay sound? MLA? the Pope?
Hough Dough Yough Proughnoughnce…
Tough
Trough
Through
Though
Thought
Wednesday.
fuck that word.
Viscount
Isle/Island
Aisle.
Gimmee my ‘S’ back if you’re not gonna use it. :mad:
Gorilla
Guerrilla
Committee
Mammillary
Embarrass
…and anything else that has multiple pairs of double letters (or, in the case of gorilla, seems as if it should, possibly because of its association with guerrilla). I am normally an extremely reliable speller, but these never fail to trip me up.
(On a recent anatomy quiz where I had to identify the mammillary bodies in the brain from multiple slices and angles, I spent the last few seconds frantically squishing the third “m” into nine or ten instances of the word due to some lucky second-guessing. Yeah, spelling counted.)
Awry.
Bureaucrat (and all its forms)
Recipe
Receipt
Thorough and throughout (mainly because I always lose my place)
Actually, most words — I’m a terrible speller. When I was a wee lad, I thought I could pull a fast one on my teachers. If I wasn’t sure how to spell a word, I’d just write it real sloppy-like, and bury the I dots and T crossings and L loops, etc. among the mess. My grand hope was that they’d know what I meant and just assume I spelled it correctly. Hahahah… well well well. Now I have horrid penmanship and terrible spelling.
(oh, here’s how I initially tried to spell those words)
Beuraucrat
Recipie
Recipt
Thorurough and thruout
psycho
More in the “why are you wasting letters” sense:
Thyme
Vineyard
Giraffe
Debt
Doubt
Often
Anything with an -ious ending, suspicious, capricious, etc.
And I truly hate the common online misspelling of “whoa” as “woah” which makes no sense.
Accommodation.
Dalmatia is a place. Dalmatia - Wikipedia
Dalmatians are the people & dogs which come from there. Like Alsacians and Italians.
That word that’s pronounced “or derve” and means something like “appetizer” - I’m not even going to try spelling it.
That’s because it’s french and if you were french it would look just fine, I imagine. I always pronounce it how it’s spelled in my head so I can remember how to spell it. Without looking it up, let me give it a shot:
hors d’ouerves
Am I close?
Very close. Just two transpositions.
hors d’oeuvres