Fluther: What is a word you write all the time but you ...

What is a word you write all the time but you misspell every time?

Asked by Caravanfan (14254

) December 1st, 2023
33 responses
“Great Question” (4

)

Every. Damn. Time.

For me the word is “resuscitation”

I’ve been resuscitating patients for over 30 years and I still can’t get the goddamned word spelled right.

Follow this question

Send to a friend!

Topic: misspelling

Observing members: 0

Composing members: 0

Answers

Occasion. I always make a mistake, and the little squiggly line notifies me it’s wrong.

Hawaii_Jake (37830

)“Great Answer” (6

)

@Hawaii_Jake I mess that up on ocassion too!

janbb (63371

)“Great Answer” (5

)

There, their, confession, dessert, desert, whom, effect, affect,

RedDeerGuy1 (25177

)“Great Answer” (2

)

Gauge. I really want to transpose those vowels.

canidmajor (21804

)“Great Answer” (5

)

Pairs, pears.

RedDeerGuy1 (25177

)“Great Answer” (1

)

“Weird” look “wierd” whichever way you spell it!

janbb (63371

)“Great Answer” (3

)

Conscientious

Fluorescent

Kardamom (33614

)“Great Answer” (3

)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
I can’t ever get that right.

Blackwater_Park (9344

)“Great Answer” (2

)

Eiafriafucall the volcano in iceland. Usually called E16.
Schizophrenia.

RedDeerGuy1 (25177

)“Great Answer” (2

)

I have to think hard when I spell definitely.

JLeslie (65942

)“Great Answer” (1

)

For me for some reason was “patience”.

SQUEEKY2 (23607

)“Great Answer” (2

)

Exercise, conscientious (spelled it wrong while writing it here!), conscience, conscious

HA! misspell!

smudges (11516

)“Great Answer” (2

)

@RedDeerGuy1 One of my teachers taught us a hint to remember how to spell “dessert.” She said when you have dessert, you want 2 servings (to remember the “S” is twice).

She also gave us a hint to remember how to spell “religion.” She said “the GI gets religion in the foxhole.”

jca2 (17200

)“Great Answer” (2

)

Jeruba (56233

)“Great Answer” (2

)

My grandfather worked a linotype machine and had little phrases to remind him how certain words were spelt. Pharaoh was “arse over head”.

flutherother (35049

)“Great Answer” (1

)

Yes I misspell “Friend. ” I swap the e and i and then have to correct it.

LuckyGuy (43889

)“Great Answer” (1

)

Mispell? Misspell? I’m not sure which is correct.

Call_Me_Jay (14063

)“Great Answer” (1

)

@flutherother I use phrasaes sometimes and I also have a way of doing the spelling pronunciation in my head, to help. For example, for pharaoh, in my head I say “phar-ay-oh.”

jca2 (17200

)“Great Answer” (2

)

Conscience and consciousness of all things give me trouble.

Blackwater_Park (9344

)“Great Answer” (1

)

I always have the urge to spell career as carreer, or canceled as cancelled.
The double letter variant just feels more natural to me.
edit: apparently, “cancelled” is proper in British English, so that is the correct version.

ragingloli (52385

)“Great Answer” (5

)

I was going to write “miscellaneous”, but I guess I’ve finally learned to spell it.

Brian1946 (32804

)“Great Answer” (3

)

Calendar. Always . Did it this time too! Ugh!

chyna (51752

)“Great Answer” (2

)

I have trouble with that one too especially as there is a small town near here called and spelt Callander.

flutherother (35049

)“Great Answer” (1

)

@Caravanfan, when you misspell “resuscitation,” how do you spell it?

Jeruba (56233

)“Great Answer” (1

)

I always misspell improve as imporve on a standard keyboard. Every single time.

Not so much on the mobile qwerty keyboard.

cookieman (41925

)“Great Answer” (2

)

But that’s just a typo, right, @cookieman? You don’t have any troublle knowing what the letters are.

Jeruba (56233

)“Great Answer” (2

)

All of them.

Dutchess_III (47239

)“Great Answer” (1

)

conscientious

Forever_Free (9283

)“Great Answer” (1

)

@Jeruba Rescussitation. Most commonly.

Caravanfan (14254

)“Great Answer” (2

)

@Caravanfan, hmm, interesting. I can see how that could be hard to shake off.

But maybe it would help to know that there’s a connection between “resuscitation” and “citation” through the Latin citare. You could get a citation for performing that resuscitation.

Jeruba (56233

)“Great Answer” (5

)

@Jeruba That’s awesome, thanks!

Caravanfan (14254

)“Great Answer” (1

)

@Jeruba: Certainly, but I make the same typo every time.

cookieman (41925

)“Great Answer” (3

)