Words you misspell every single time you type them...

[phucheneh]

I don't know how I lived at a time before browsers had a built-in spellchecker that worked in dialog boxes. Even though they have shitty dictionaries, commonly underlining all our made-up words, internetisms (...made-up), and perfectly valid variants (fuck you, google, 'cinematographically' is a word)...damn, it's still a helpful function.

Is it normal to have solid, brick-wall brainblocks on the spelling of certain common words? Some words, I eventually start spelling right on the first try. Others...meh.

An example of a triumph: dachshund. Always had trouble; doesn't spell like it's pronounced. Then my brain finally decided to just start internally pronouncing it like a German...docks...hoond...d-a-c-h-s...h-u-n-d. Bam. Easy.

And failure: restaurant. Doesn't matter what I do. That fucking word is rest...ront. Those middle letters are bullshit. No forced accent or overarticulation can make me visualize them. Might as well have a silent 'q' in the middle.

And a classic: nesseccary. Shit, I mean neccessary. Er, neccesary. FUCK, necessary.

Spelling is hard.

 

[waggy]

all of them...

 

[JEDIYoda]

Ihm zorie bhut spellihng iz nott hard!

For example -- take poster #2 name... Whayghee!!

 

[CZroe]

Never had a problem with necessary but restaurant gets me every time. Recently been caught typing two Ls with hilarious more than once.

 

[Ruptga]

Can't think of any offhand, but I know there's one or two. I had even fewer issues before inline spell checkers were everywhere, but now that I can roll my face across the keyboard and right click to choose what I meant, I just don't care. I've got more important things to think about, like what that asshole over there thinks he's doing on my internet

 

[BoomerD]

im forchewnat. I am a gud speler.

 

[someone16]

I think it's because we don't practice writing much after graduating. I used to be really good at spelling but recently I have trouble spelling out words.

 

[Ruptga]

I think it's because we don't practice writing much after graduating. I used to be really good at spelling but recently I have trouble spelling out words.

Nef and argue as much as you lurk now and you'll be a pro in no time.

 

[repoman0]

guarantee

I consistently mix up the au/ua even though I'm pretty good at spelling

 

[lxskllr]

renaissance

Just to piss me off though, I got it right the first time making this post :^S

There's a couple other words, but they aren't coming to me atm.

 

[phucheneh]

guarantee

I consistently mix up the au/ua even though I'm pretty good at spelling

This is another forced correction for me- I always spell it correctly because my brain says 'goo-ar-an-tee'. I feel like this is probably weird.

I think it's because we don't practice writing much after graduating. I used to be really good at spelling but recently I have trouble spelling out words.

I think internet forums keep my literary skills sharper than they would otherwise be (i.e. forming coherent, well-phrased thoughts). But spellcheck makes us lazy, so rather than learn from it, we just keep getting worse.

edit: fuck rennaiscance. That shit in unpossible.

 

[keird]

durring. It looks better than the correct spelling.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Youporntube

 

[Carson Dyle]

vacuum vaccuum vaccum vacuumm ... whatever

 

[Paladin3]

Restaurant, definitely, vacuum, jewelry, colonel, sergeant and a whole bunch of others.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Elementary my dear ATOTer.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Has anyone else found that spell-checkers in browsers have made them better spellers? I sure have. Eventually, even the worst speller gets the proper spelling pounded into their heads after correcting all those words with squiggly red underlines.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Has anyone else found that spell-checkers in browsers have made them better spellers? I sure have. Eventually, even the worst speller gets the proper spelling pounded into their heads after correcting all those words with squiggly red underlines.

The opposite, actually - I rely on the red squiggly lines more and more so I don't have to remember how to spell things. Or even complete words.

http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/spellchecker.htm

The other downside (and the reason I turned off autocorrect on my phone) is that I type a lot of abbreviations that the computer changes to other things.

 

[Berliner]

Nun.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Phones are different, to be sure. But I have no desire to sloppily type in text, just to have to go back and correct it all. When I do have to correct something, I try to learn from it. I was a horrible speller as a kid, but have gotten much better the older I've gotten.

 

[Insomniator]

license, necessary, successful

 

[Fritzo]

I always misspell definitely for some reason. Necessary is another big one. Screw double ss's.

 

[Meruem20]

necessary and committee haha..and other with double letters in it haha..not good with spelling

 

[UncleWai]

I always type 'excercise', then realize it just doesn't look right

 

[Childs]

resturaunt