# Word Spellings You Hate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775 "2009-04-20T20:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/1 "2009-04-20T20:50:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/2 "2009-04-20T20:56:41Z")
shoppe ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/3 "2009-04-20T21:07:45Z")
I hate the “re” when it should be “er” type thing You know , “theatre,” “metre,” etc I also hate “colonel” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/4 "2009-04-20T21:08:47Z")
_Convience. Rember. Mfg._ in place of _mfr._ or _mfd._ It means manufactur_ing. 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. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/5 "2009-04-21T01:17:32Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![EdwardLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/6 "2009-04-21T01:21:53Z")
forty: Why not fourty? ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/7 "2009-04-21T01:29:57Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/8 "2009-04-21T02:08:48Z")
Hough Dough Yough Proughnoughnce… Tough Trough Through Though Thought ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/9 "2009-04-21T02:41:55Z")
Wednesday. **fuck** that word. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/10 "2009-04-21T06:10:52Z")
Viscount Isle/Island Aisle. Gimmee my ‘S’ back if you’re not gonna use it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/11 "2009-04-21T07:16:38Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/12 "2009-04-21T07:22:40Z")
Awry. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/13 "2009-04-21T07:30:37Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/14 "2009-04-21T09:24:30Z")
psycho ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/15 "2009-04-21T11:27:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/16 "2009-04-21T12:04:06Z")
Accommodation. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/17 "2009-04-21T12:09:34Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > …_Dalmation._ There is no such verb as “to dalmate.” What would it mean, anyway? … Dalmatia is a place. [Dalmatia - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatia) Dalmatians are the people & dogs which come from there. Like Alsacians and Italians. ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/18 "2009-04-21T12:37:10Z")
That word that’s pronounced “or derve” and means something like “appetizer” - I’m not even going to try spelling it. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/19 "2009-04-21T12:59:26Z")
> [@williamweigand](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775/20 "2009-04-21T13:10:54Z")
Very close. Just two transpositions. hors d’oeuvres [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-spellings-you-hate/493775.md?page=2)