But are not.
(we’ve done this before, Czarcasm about 7 years ago for example, but rather than bump an old thread, I thought I start a new one)
Every time I spell professional, my mind wants to spell it proffesional. That’s more logical, right?
And arrangement? There should be an 'i" in there somewhere - arraingement.
Even in this thread, my mind wanted to write 'every time ’ as everytime. Why not, we have everywhere, everybody, everything, everyplace…
Gothi.
Judgment (though the dictionary seems to allow “judgement” as a variant. But my Grammarly doesn’t like it.)
Wierd. Wait, weird.
Where’s that rolled up newspaper? (I once did a whole speech about that for a high school contest. I won.) But you spelled it wrong.
Yes, I did. I thought that was in the spirit of the thread.
Correspondence. Really seems like it ought to be correspondance.
Epitome.
If you want to pronounciated it “e PIT a me” that ain’t English. The e at the end means the o is long. What we have here is the epi-tome of bad spelling.
In my judgement it should be spelled ‘judgement’ instead of ‘judgment’. A lot of spell checkers disagree with me.
Collectible. Hate it!
That word lost me a spelling bee in 6th grade. I’ll never forget how to spell it. Even if I do agree that there should be an “e.” Without the vowel, the “g” should be hard.
I can’t believe no one has said it yet: “wrong”.
I have always thought the word restaurateur should have an n in it.
Yeah, judgment sucks.
I always struggle with “Cancelled”, which I have to use when I cancel baseball practices or games. I want to do “canceled” - never know how many "l"s to use. Then I found out they are both OK…
Rhythm takes a few seconds every time. Too many oddly place "h"s and no vowels.
Wait, it doesn’t? Like the person who opens a restaurant isn’t a restauranteur?
Bullshit, I’m with the descriptivists on this one.
Ophthalmologist. The “ph” is a cinch, the “th” almost so, but it’s that first “L”. Not only is it not really pronounced, but the word pretty much looks just fine without it, there’s so much else going on: “ophthamologist.” If it weren’t for Linus Van Pelt talking about his (poor kid), I would never have gotten it.
So does every American legal type in the country. It’s like nails on a chalkboard to me every time I see ‘judgement’. Gah!
Fair warning: If you put it in a thread title as ‘judgement,’ I will change it if you are American.
The one that catches me out every time is ‘cantaloupe.’ I always want to spell it wrong, ‘canteloupe.’
“Curious” has a second u in it, right? So shouldn’t “curiousity” have it, too?
No, he’s a composer.
“Glamour.” Looks all fancy and glamorous, but also like a British spelling that ought to be “glamor” in the U.S.