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Author Topic: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.  (Read 11702 times)

Darvi

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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2012, 03:48:39 am »
Quote from: Max White on March 08, 2012, 03:24:37 am
I thought you were American...
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2012, 04:03:57 am »
You are Canadian?
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2012, 06:58:59 am »
Panama Canal Zone?
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2012, 07:46:03 am »
East Carolina.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2012, 08:28:38 am »
Quote from: Darvi on March 08, 2012, 07:46:03 am
East Carolina.
Which means Darvi is a pirate.

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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2012, 09:15:03 am »
Hasn't Puerto Rico gotten quite close to becoming the actual 51st state before? So he must be from there.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2012, 09:18:14 am »
Quote from: RedKing on March 08, 2012, 08:28:38 am
Which means Darvi is a pirate.
Not like that ever was a secret.

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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2012, 09:22:56 am »
Would anyone believe that, whenever I'm asked for my signature, I have the hardest time spelling my own last name?
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2012, 10:20:12 am »
Very glad that my own is only 5 letters long.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2012, 10:26:48 am »
Quote from: Max White on March 08, 2012, 03:24:37 am
I thought you were American... Anyway, try being a programmer, US spelling is the standard.

That reminds me when I was back in college.  I was banging my head against a Java program for at least a day or two, completely unable to figure out why it wasn't working.  I finally had to go into the processor's office to ask for help.  He looked over my code, and saw that I had a "u" in color (which was part of some function name).  Since then, I realized that despite being born and raised American, I do gravitate toward British spellings somewhat often. 
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2012, 10:28:52 am »
My sister lives in the UK, and I don't believe that I'll ever understand UK spelling.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2012, 01:41:46 pm »
'Definitely'. I always try to spell it 'Definately' :/
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2012, 01:43:04 pm »
Quote from: SirAaronIII on March 08, 2012, 01:33:23 am
Microline. I mean microcline. The cyan rock.

Microline has a second C??!! Mind blown.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2012, 01:53:18 pm »
Despite being a good speller, the only words I have problems with are ones like exercise, variations of "ie" and "ei" words, and a few others that jumble together too many different letters or too many of the same letters. Basically, any word that's difficult to visualize or messes with the phonetics of a letter.

Like italicize. Why does it use a "c"?!
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2012, 02:03:13 pm »
GauranteeGuarantee is the one I slip up on most consistantly nowadays. Though apparently I mess up consistently, too :-\
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