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Which Words Do You Always Spell Wrong?

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I'm carefully trying to avoid differences in US/UK spelling here and only referencing words spelt the same in both. My own worst bugbears are:

Supersede (it just looks so wrong with an 's' after the 'r' rather than a 'c'!)
Accommodation (I always put one 'm' instead of 2!)
Liaison (I keep thinking it should be liasion!)
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Received. Luckily most autocorrects automatically change it for me. :D
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I can never get 'physical' right on the first try. My brain always wants to write 'psychical' for some reason.
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BookishCreature wrote: 06 Feb 2018, 13:34 I can never get 'physical' right on the first try. My brain always wants to write 'psychical' for some reason.
Looks like you're trying to combine psychic and physical. :)
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kandscreeley wrote: 06 Feb 2018, 13:37
BookishCreature wrote: 06 Feb 2018, 13:34 I can never get 'physical' right on the first try. My brain always wants to write 'psychical' for some reason.
Looks like you're trying to combine psychic and physical. :)
Psychics are way more fun than physics anyway. ;)
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Mediterranean - the double r followed by a always looks wrong to me.
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Cotwani wrote: 08 Feb 2018, 14:03 Mediterranean - the double r followed by a always looks wrong to me.
That's a hard one. It's kind of like Caribbean. I always get confused if it's a double "r" or double "b" or both! :)
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Necessary. I always seem to want the C's to be as equally represented as the S's. :roll:
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rssllue wrote: 15 Feb 2018, 05:57 Necessary. I always seem to want the C's to be as equally represented as the S's. :roll:
Yes, those c's are definitely being discriminated against. :)
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Committee, accommodation, tomorrow, successful the list is so long
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kandscreeley wrote: 15 Feb 2018, 08:44
rssllue wrote: 15 Feb 2018, 05:57 Necessary. I always seem to want the C's to be as equally represented as the S's. :roll:
Yes, those c's are definitely being discriminated against. :)
You C it too then! :shifty: :lol2:
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I can never quite remember how to spell condescension.. It sounds weird to me for some reason.
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limonia sounds different from its spelling.. I still can't spell well. I think I need help
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Receive has been one of those words I tend to misspell more than other words. Necessary is another.
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I have the worst time spelling "necessary." Can't ever remember if it's two Ss or two Cs and which goes first.

I also almost always second guess my spelling if "tomorrow".
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