Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5

Author Topic: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.  (Read 11694 times)

RedKing

  • Bay Watcher
  • hoo hoo motherfucker
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2012, 02:05:06 pm »
I'm a pretty naturally awesome speller. I do have the occasional problem with "ie/ei" though, mostly because I studied German and it frequently works backwards in German from what it does in English.
Logged

Quote from: MaximumZero on October 26, 2012, 11:28:55 pm
Remember, knowledge is power. The power to make other people feel stupid.
Quote from: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Enzo

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2012, 03:39:26 pm »
Souvineer. Suev...Suv...Souvenir. Yeah. I blame the French.

Also Schadenfreude. We should have just let the Germans have that one.
Logged

Criptfeind

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2012, 03:40:36 pm »
I have disgraphia. So. Every word.
Logged

Loud Whispers

  • Bay Watcher
  • They said we have to aim higher, so we dug deeper.
    • View Profile
    • I APPLAUD YOU SIRRAH
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #33 on: March 08, 2012, 03:44:09 pm »
hemorrhage
Logged

Hiiri

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #34 on: March 08, 2012, 04:06:47 pm »
Unfortunately

Whoa, I got it right on the first try.
Logged

bombzero

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #35 on: March 08, 2012, 05:55:30 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 08, 2012, 03:44:09 pm
hemorrhage

its concerning that you often have the need to spell hemorrhage.
Logged

Shakerag

  • Bay Watcher
  • Just here for the schadenfreude.
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #36 on: March 08, 2012, 05:55:45 pm »
I'm not sure if we need to delve into a separate thread for this, but while I can spell it fine, I can't say "unfathomable" to save my life.  I usually just mumble the last bit.
Logged

bombzero

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #37 on: March 08, 2012, 05:59:25 pm »
Quote from: Shakerag on March 08, 2012, 05:55:45 pm
I'm not sure if we need to delve into a separate thread for this, but while I can spell it fine, I can't say "unfathomable" to save my life.  I usually just mumble the last bit.

ill allow it, making edit to title and OP.
Logged

Putnam

  • Bay Watcher
  • DAT WIZARD
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #38 on: March 08, 2012, 06:10:54 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on March 08, 2012, 03:01:11 am
I used to intentionally use "it's" for all forms of its, but much to my dismay, I've fallen into correct usage.


Damn you nonsensical english language.
It's not nonsensical! Its is a possesive adjective, like his!
Logged

Loud Whispers

  • Bay Watcher
  • They said we have to aim higher, so we dug deeper.
    • View Profile
    • I APPLAUD YOU SIRRAH
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell right.
« Reply #39 on: March 08, 2012, 06:16:08 pm »
Quote from: bombzero on March 08, 2012, 05:55:30 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 08, 2012, 03:44:09 pm
hemorrhage

its concerning that you often have the need to spell hemorrhage.
You'd really be surprised
Logged

SirAaronIII

  • Bay Watcher
  • Western Romanticist
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #40 on: March 08, 2012, 06:58:51 pm »
Oh man I was reminded of another big one: onomatopoeia.
Damn I hate that word.
Logged
"I want to watch the sun setting below the horizon, thinking about my significance in this world. That's my dream."

Criptfeind

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #41 on: March 08, 2012, 07:43:15 pm »
Pronounce now? Well. Pacific is my worst one. Pa... Pa... I got nothing. Just Pa. That big lake.

And most of my vocabulary is self taught, so a lot of words I pronounce incorrectly, and even more that I most likely do without knowing it. Even more so if I use a word that no one else knows what it means so no one can correct me, I would not be surprised to learn there are a few not words like that floating around my group of friends and associates. Then of course there are plenty of words that, once again because I taught myself them, I use in the wrong way.
Logged

Flying Dice

  • Bay Watcher
  • inveterate shitposter
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #42 on: March 09, 2012, 01:03:49 am »
Any word with a hearty combination of 's' + 'c' thrown together in the middle.

Decision, for example.
Logged


Aurora on small monitors:
1. Game Parameters -> Reduced Height Windows.
2. Lock taskbar to the right side of your desktop.
3. Run Resize Enable

Trapezohedron

  • Bay Watcher
  • No longer exists here.
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #43 on: March 09, 2012, 06:17:42 am »
flitgh fligth* flight**

I often have to correct anything that ends with a gth ght*
Logged
Thank you for all the fish. It was a good run.

Darvi

  • Bay Watcher
  • <Cript> Darvi is my wifi.
    • View Profile
Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #44 on: March 09, 2012, 06:22:57 am »
I know rithg?
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5
« previous next »