Monday 19 October 2009

Spelling

I have been keeping a little tally of words that I nearly always get wrong when I attempt to spell them. It doesn’t matter how many times I use them, for some reason my fingers go to tap on a completely different key, and my pencil makes the same familiar mistakes.

Just for my own amusement – here is the word correctly spelt, and how I itch to spell it instead. Those marked in the red pen are correct!

Liaison – liason
Disease – desease
Privilege – Privilige
Rhyme - Ryhme
Rhythm - Rythem
Pseudonym - Pseudinum
Relevant – Relevent
Prejudice- Predijuce

What words do you constantly misspell, if any?

12 comments:

music obsessive said...

Haha! What is it with some words? I don't think I have ever spelt 'forward' correctly - it always comes out as 'foward'. Just as well spellcheck is on the ball.

The other one is 'separate' which has a tendancy to appear as 'seperate'.

What would we have done in the days of old fashioned typewriters? I really don't think typing the whole page again is me!

Eliza said...

I have to use spell check all the time - there are countless words I miss spell. I think I'm dyslexic!

Jayne said...

Hi Martin! Yes - 'separate' often comes out wrong for me too. Conscious and conscience often give me pause for thought too - although with stuff like that spellcheck is no good! I need a 'Jayne-check' on things.

Oh my gosh - typewriters! Oh that would have been tricky. Typewriters before tippex, even? Eek.

Jayne said...

Hello Eliza, and welcome! I agree, spellcheck is a goodly invention. Sometimes I think it is the way I pronounce words that leads me to misguided spelling - I think my ancesters would have been happy leaping around forests shouting 'AR!' at everything. I think I would be happier with that as well!

Kit Courteney said...

Oooh, Janye, lovley post.

*cough* Serious now...

I only have 2 that I can think of but I know damn well that there are more (millions more).

becuase-because
hormoanes-hormones

I only get these wrong when typing - but I usually get them wrong 99% of the time. I just don't know WHAT the heck is wrong with my brain/finger connection where these are concerned.

I'd say it was age, but I've been like this for years :0(

(The word verification thingy is biast!)

Jayne said...

Hi Kit! I quite like the spelling of 'hormoanes' - hormones do make people grumble quite a bit after all.

I have been hankering recently for a large dictionary... I still use my tiny abridged Oxford dictionary that I used at school, and find it hard to focus on the words! That is definitely age. :)

Rose said...

I have trouble with beautiful and business- I have to say b e a u tiful to myself and bus i ness.

Jayne said...

Hi Rose! I also say be-a-u-tiful to myself when I think no one can hear me. In the same manner I count with my fingers under the desk.

Kit Courteney said...

At school I was taught:

Bees'
Eggs
Are
Ugly

--tiful

Do bees come from eggs? Does that make me sound thick?

I'll go now.

Law and Order said...

Rhythm and privilege are two of my bug bears.
Rhythmn and privelege. I need to do what you do. Write a list. I'm going to stick it on my wall in front of my laptop.

Jayne said...

Hi Kit! I still chant Never Eat Shredded Wheat to fix the points in the compass. Poor shredded wheat. What was so bad?

Hm... do bees come from eggs? I guess I thought bees mutate out of some sticky goo in their hive. You can tell I don't like to think about it too much!

Jayne said...

Hi Joanne! It's interesting the same words trip us up. I am also awful at spelling lieu (in lieu of something). I want to spell it 'leui'. Or 'leiu'. I need to say to myself 'lie-uuu' so I get it right!