I will use this as a mnemonic. Thanks for sharing – why I love this place!
Hey, I think I’ve finally got ‘weird’ figured out, because ‘we is weird’ and so ‘weird is we’.
Well actually … 
This is a case where “sometimes y” comes into play. It is unambiguously being used as a vowel, there, so it is a vowel.
Embarrass.
There should only be one “R”.
Propeller. I want to spell it propellor.
Or is it the other way around?
That was my word up above. I grew up with i before e except after c firmly embedded in my head. I was an adult before I learned that rule was absolute bullshit. Some would say it was a very weird rule.
What’s the logic?
My understanding is that “judgment” is the standard US spelling, while “judgement” is the standard UK spelling. Both, to me, seem to have a bit of wrongness to them, but you gotta spell it somehow.
I just remember that ‘weird’ is spelled weird.
Trips me up every single time.
Commitment
Happening
Belittlement
It just seems like the double consonant should come earlier in the word.
[yes, “judgment”]
I would have strode boldly to the nearest dictionary, pointed out the alternate spelling to the teacher, and demanded credit. Frankly I would have been appalled to have been declared incorrect there.
Villain is the one that always gets me. Villian?
‘Necessary’ throws me off that way also. No real reason there should be two 'c’s but I often have to back up and delete an extra one.
Acquaintance. I don’t think I’ve ever spelled it correctly on my first attempt. What makes it worse is that there aren’t any perfect synonyms. Friend? No. Colleague? No.
Yep, that one is a tough one for me too. You would think I’d learn but I always second guess myself, and and more often than not, wrong.
Shouldn’t that be ghoti? Or have I been whooshed?
No, gothi is a description of someone with lots of ishadow and black laci garments.
Don’t you mean, iShaddo and laci gharmence ?
It always bothered me that the word traveler only has one “L”. Seemed like a double consonant in the middle makes the word have a better looking “footprint”.
That’s another one that’s apparently different in the US vs the UK.
Interesting!