are there some words that trip you up?

[emmie]

that you find hard to spell or worse say. I fall at the first hurdle of unequivocal, for reasons i can't explain, it comes out jumbled, and now i have to put it aside, or find an alternative. Indubitably is another tongue twister. any you care to share?

[emmie]

how many can spell the word that we all get from time to time, excessive poo!
begins with a d......... i wrote it down once, and still can't spell it.

[NoMercy]

Are you American, Marval?

[marval]

No, I am English

[sandyRoe]

I avoid orgasm and organism whenever I can Two tricky ones there.

[sandyRoe]

diarroheea? spell check say 'no'

[emmie]

saw a piece in the paper a while back, someone had put pubic places, instead of public still makes me smile.

[petal54]

I have trouble with par cark(car park) my mum always refers to squirrals as 'squils' or 'stwils'

[Prudie]

I can never say Charlotte Church

[emmie]

spell check right, how many confuse check and cheque, their, there, sea, see, and any number of others which trip you up

[hc4361]

I can't pronounce words that begin with 'sl' without slurring, and my wife can't say Ohio.

[flump1]

I trip on deseese too ...as well as loads of the earlier ones !!

[TheWinner]

Some good tips for spelling came from one of our teachers re some that have been mentioned.
Accommodation (think double room with a double bed) ie 2 x cc's and 2 x mm's.
Stationery (is paper/envelopes etc and is spelt with an E as in LEttEr
Stationary (is not moving) and is spelt with an A as in CAr.

[mike11111]

Diarrhoea. That's enough sh!t from me!

[emmie]

mike indeed, another one is mississippi, we leant that by saying it over and over. Not that it has any particular use, but its stuck in my memory.
i still couldn't spell dia ..... it never looks right.

[mike11111]

Ah,you see, that's where a classical education comes in. It is formed from two Greek words, "dia", through, and "rrhoea", meaning flow.

[emmie]

Mike11111 mine stopped at, "i hate school i want to earn my own money", well we live and we learn, classical education won't necessarily make you bright, clever, or have any common sense. Many academics i have known, couldn't tie their shoelaces but could probably spell Diarrhoea.

[nightmare]

Mike,
just noticed you have inserted an extra "ch" into both your first and "corrected" spellings of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllanty
siliogogogoch,
between "..gyll" and "goger..."

[Bert]

No wonder 2shortplanks has trouble with 'burgulary' - there's no such word. It's 'burglary'. There is the verb 'to burgle', so there is no need for the hideous Americanism 'to burglarise'.
Also, em10 got 'squirrels' wrong.
If I have trouble with a word, I look it up in a dictionary. There are very few words where you don't know the first few letters.

[emmie]

Bert if i am in the middle of the supermarket, unlikely to have my chambers dictionary with me, or sitting in the park doing c/w, but there are so many easy words that trip you up, this thread was so long ago, that i had forgotten all about it, but glad you are on the ball.

[emmie]

i looked back through the thread, squirrels, that wasn't me..